If you are not familiar with Wordpress, it is the most popular blog software, used by both corporations and individual bloggers. It became very popular mainly due to its powerful customization features. Even though it is based on PHP and MySQL, one can modify the look and feel without fiddling much with PHP.
Unfortunately, off late, it bas become popular with hackers as well resulting in identifying more vulnerabilities and incidents, check here, here and the latest incident here. If you are hosting a Wordpress blog site, check the discussions on the Wordpress support site and the ways to clean-up the site.
On the long run, here are some ways to monitor your site, these are what Wordpress calls "plugins"
This plugin performs hardening of the default installation.This plugin acts as a file integrity monitor and notifies the administrator of changes.
This plugin monitors failed login attempts.
This plugin can be used as a specialized Wordpress scanner, it can identify vulnerabilities and recommend actions.
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