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Edit: Amazing support / Malware & Core File Scanning Not adequate
I installed this on a website which was already infected, lot of core files have been modified and some files which aren't meant to be there and a quick glance shows that clearly. Some of the other functions are handy and work well like the Security Advisor etc, and thus I took away only two tacos. Have sent a support email, if I get an adquete response and fix then will change feedback, but I installed wordfence and it instantly caught these issues. Quite worried about my investment.
Edit: I have revised my rating because after reaching out to support and sharing copies of the suspicious files, the explanations were adequate from the team why some of them were missed, and for the rest they have or are releasing an update to improve their scanners. Also turns out wordfence did not catch the culprits after I restored a backup with the malware present to test.
Lars_Koudal
Jun 29, 2026Hi ankush33,
Thank you for the honest feedback, and I’m sorry the scanner did not catch what you expected on an already infected site.
That is something I take seriously. Security Ninja’s core scanner should detect modified WordPress core files when checksum data is available, and the malware scanner uses pattern-based detection for suspicious files. If something obvious was missed, I want to see the exact file paths/examples so we can investigate and improve the detection.
I have seen your note about sending a support email, and I’ll follow up there so we can look at the actual findings from your site.
Wordfence and Security Ninja scan differently, so comparing results is useful. If this exposes a gap on our side, I’ll treat it as something to fix, not something to argue about.
Thank you also for mentioning the parts you found useful, such as Security Advisor. I appreciate the chance to investigate this properly.