Security

Place order spins forever or shows “There was an error processing your order”. Read the checkout request in the Network tab, check the logs, then fix the gateway, cache or script.

Customers paid but orders sit in Pending payment or On hold, and no order emails arrive. Prove whether the gateway webhook reaches your site, then fix delivery and email.

Your contact form fills your inbox with junk. Find how the spam arrives, then layer honeypots, Turnstile or CAPTCHA, Akismet, validation and rate limits.

Hundreds of fake subscribers or a comment queue full of junk? Close every registration door, bulk-remove fake users safely and lock down comments.

The form says “sent” or spins forever, but no entry or email ever shows up. Find out whether the submission or the notification failed, then fix that half.

WordPress says “The link you followed has expired” when you upload a theme, save a setting or submit a form. Find which nonce failed and why, then fix it.

Media uploads fail with an HTTP error, an image processing error or a file type refusal. Read the log, then fix memory, Imagick, file types or folder permissions.

Thousands of POSTs to wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php are slowing your site. Measure the attack in your logs, then layer 2FA, attempt limits, an xmlrpc block and edge rules.

You got an alert that a plugin you run is vulnerable. Read the advisory, decide how urgent it is, patch or replace the plugin, and check whether you were already exploited.

Someone logged in as one of your users. Lock the account, kill its sessions and application passwords, secure the email behind it, then review what it changed.

Your site is buried under traffic. Tell an attack from a viral spike, put Cloudflare in front, challenge or rate limit the hot paths, and lock your origin so it cannot be bypassed.

A security scanner flagged a file on your site. Verify it against official checksums, compare it with a clean copy, check its timestamps and read it safely to decide.