If you have a reoccurring problem with a hack of your website, there are multiple causes that could underly it. Two of those, a backdoor and a vulnerability, are sometimes confused. Understanding the difference is important to dealing with the problem.<\/p>\n
A backdoor is some method for the hacker to continuing access to the website, which they place on the website. That often is a file that the hacker can send commands to on the website and those commands will run. Those backdoor files can sometimes be rather complex, but other times are really simple.<\/p>\n
A vulnerability is an existing security issue on the website that gives a hacker some access they shouldn’t have.<\/p>\n
A key difference between these two issues is how you deal with them. If you were to restore the website back to its state before the hacking, a backdoor couldn’t exist on the website. A vulnerability will still exist if you do that.<\/p>\n
Another key difference is who has access in each situation. With a backdoor, only one hacker would have access, unless some other hacker figures out about their backdoor. A vulnerability, by comparison, could be exploited by many hackers.<\/p>\n
We recently had someone come to us that thought there was a backdoor on their website, but the change being made with what they thought was a backdoor allowed any hacker access. What they actually had was a vulnerability they hadn’t addressed.<\/p>\n
If you need help with a hacked website, we can help you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have a reoccurring problem with a hack of your website, there are multiple causes that could underly it. Two of those, a backdoor and a vulnerability, are sometimes confused. Understanding the difference is important to dealing with the problem. A backdoor is some method for the hacker to continuing access to the website, … Continue reading “The Difference Between a Backdoor and a Vulnerability on Your Repeatedly Hacked Website”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-hacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}