Weird Files keep appearing in my WordPress core files and other files

  • Hello,

    The Wordfence scan showed this high severity problem: Unknown file in WordPress core: wp-includes/widgets/.0fecca20.mo

    The file details are here

    What is this file and anyone has any advise on how to stop these files from appearing as they are affecting my other websites in the same hosting plan.

    Thank you

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Make sure all your plugins, & wordpress are up to date, You might want to check with another scanner too. Sometimes there are false positives. Its kind of hard to tell from your file your showing. There has been a lot of injection attacks in the past month that we have seen. You might try Malcare or Securi You will find them if you do a Google search on it. If you need some further help just ping me i will do what I can for you.

    Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hiya @sp17mf,

    Looking at your file, it would appear your site may have been compromised.

    Don’t worry though, this can happen, we recommend reading over https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/ and following it’s suggestions, likely your host can help with restoring a backup of your site from before any bad code was added to it.

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