We saw what breaks WordPress sites. Then we built one that doesn't.
A decade of WordPress security, in concrete terms.
Numbers we measure across cleanups, scans, and the sites we currently protect.
Most WordPress security plugins are built from spec sheets. Ours is built from breach reports.
Most security plugins are designed by software teams that have read about breaches. We're a team that has cleaned up tens of thousands of them. That difference shows up in what Securewp does, and in what it deliberately avoids.
After ten years of cleanups, you stop being impressed by feature checklists. You start caring about three things: catching what other scanners miss, not slowing the site you're protecting, and having a real person on call when automation can't finish the job. The plugin reflects those three priorities, in that order.
Internal scanners miss the worst infections
Cloaking, SEO spam hidden from admins, and visitor-only redirects do not appear to a plugin running as wp-admin. That's why Securewp scans externally.
A slow site is a vulnerable site
When scans cause CPU spikes, owners turn them off. Off-hour scanning isn't real protection. We moved the heavy work to the cloud so scans never fight your server.
Automation can't finish every cleanup
The hardest breaches involve chained backdoors, rogue cron jobs, and database-level injections. Automated cleanup misses them. That's why every cleanup is led by a senior analyst, not a script.
Security researchers, IR analysts, and WordPress veterans.
Securewp is a focused team. The people writing the plugin code are the same people reviewing breach cases. When a customer asks why a detection rule fires the way it does, the engineer who wrote it can usually trace it back to a specific cleanup that taught them the pattern.
Every product decision passes through the same filter: would this have helped on a real cleanup we worked? If the answer is no, it doesn't ship.
Senior analysts who have cleaned thousands of WordPress breaches. They handle every Pro and Managed cleanup case personally.
Reverse-engineering teams who keep the malware signature library current. They study every infection family we encounter.
WordPress veterans who write the plugin. Real-world WP experience across managed hosts, multisite, WooCommerce, and headless setups.
Platform engineers running the scan grid and detection pipeline. 99.99% uptime is their responsibility, and they own it.
Built by the people who clean up the breaches.
Install the free plugin to see what a decade of incident response built. Or talk to us about an emergency cleanup, a security audit, or a partnership.