Top 10 Most Popular Hacked Wordpress Plugins | May 2024

Here are the top 10 most popular hacked wordpress plugins as derived from our WordPress Plugin Popular Score which is a continually popular score, it denotes an estimated popularity of a wordpress plugin.

1. User Email Compromised Check

Cross check registered user emails with the Have I Been Pwned API for data breaches across a number of popular sites around the internet....Popular Score : 52,500,000

2. CWIS Antivirus Scanner

CWIS scanner is designed to detect exploits, malware, trojans, viruses and other threats within database content and files uploaded to your system....Popular Score : 21,400,000

3. Threat Scan Plugin

This is a very simple threat scan that looks for things out of place in the content directory as well as the database....Popular Score : 18,300,000

4. Verelo Blog Monitoring Plugin

Automatically start monitoring your sites uptime and check for hacks/malware from multiple Verelo global locations on a 5 minute rotational schedule....Popular Score : 5,620,000

5. wp secure

Wordpress Security Plugin - Perform over 23 Basic Security Activities for your blog and get a free malware scan at the same time! See more details at...Popular Score : 4,640,000

6. Quttera Web Malware Scanner

The Quttera Web Malware Scanner plugin scans your WordPress website for known and unknown malware and other suspicious activities....Popular Score : 4,570,000

7. WP Health Check

WP Health Check scans your WordPress installation and reports any security issues with your site....Popular Score : 2,960,000

8. AskApache Password Protect

This plugin Adds Crazy Additional Password Protection and Security to your blog....Popular Score : 2,860,000

9. Apache Password Protect

Simple, but strong HTTP security, to prevent Brute force attack. One-click solution!...Popular Score : 1,820,000

10. Pareto Security

WordPress core security class: A Web Application Firewall to protect your WordPress web portal...Popular Score : 357,000