We are being hacked
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Every two weeks or so for the last 6 months someone has been posting inappropriate articles about Viagra on our Rotary club website. We have tried everything to stop this. We have introduced high strength passwords and two step authentication to no avail. The club are now suggesting we move away from WordPress. What can I do?
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Hi there,
I believe your site is not being hacker rather someone is just trying to do some sort of comment spam, to better protect yourself from those nasty users I suggest you turn on comment moderation, instructions here – https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation
Learn more about getting rid of unwanted comments, see here – https://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/
Let me know how it goes ok?
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I am afraid these are full blown posts – not comments. And we already have comment moderation applied.
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Hi,
I think the only way people can do full post is having write access on your site, so one of your user accounts might have been compromised, few suggestions that I can think of is resetting all of you passwords and changing it with a strong one, check this – https://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/
I also suggest to enable 2 factor authentication to have an additional layer for unauthorized access, learn here -https://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/
Learn more about your site security here -https://en.support.wordpress.com/security/
Let me know if that works out ok?
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@chrisdunk One of your colleagues on candorotary (richardwallwork) posted earlier in the forums and has received assistance here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/inappropriate-posts-how-do-i-stop-them?replies=9#post-2863350
Please be in contact with him.
Closing as a duplicate.
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