Sucuri Guides
Use our easy-to-understand, step-by-step guides to get the most from your website security.
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What is Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)?

Learn what a CSRF attack is, how cross site request forgery works, examples, impacts, and the difference between CSRF and XSS. We also provide steps on how to prevent attacks to your environment.

What is MageCart?

Learn what MageCart is, how MageCart works to infect an ecommerce website, and the different types of attacks. We also provide steps to detect and cleanup MageCart malware infections from your site.

Getting Started with Sucuri

A guide for new Sucuri customers illustrating how to activate the website firewall, server side monitoring, backups, and features of the Sucuri dashboard.

How to Clean a Hacked Magento Site

Learn how to identify security issues and take steps to recover your traffic & conversions. Follow our guidance to eensure your Magento site is PCI compliant.

How to Clean a Hacked Drupal Site

Learn how to manage a Drupal security incident including steps to scan your site, fix malicious code, and harden your site with recommended tools and actions.

Joomla Security Guide

Understand how to keep your Joomla website safe from hackers and use best practices to protect your visitors and content from compromise.

Sucuri’s Referral Program

Join our program and earn commission for referring Sucuri customers. Perfect for webmasters, developers, hosts, marketers, agencies, and freelancers.

How to Clean a Hacked Joomla Site

Learn how to quickly fix, clean & secure a hacked Joomla! site by removing malware and protect against future attacks with this easy step-by-step guide.

Magento Security Guide

Learn basic security techniques and actionable steps that will help to improve your security posture and reduce the risk of a compromise.

How to Find & Remove WordPress Spam Posts

Spam posts and comments are not complicated malware infections, but they can severely damage a website’s reputation. Learn what they are and how to remove the infection from WordPress.

WordPress Security Guide

WordPress is the most popular website platform, making it a target. Learn basic WordPress security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.

Website Malware Guide

Website malware can come in many different types and from many places. Learn what website malware is.

How to Install an SSL Certificate

Learn how to activate SSL/HTTPS on your site. A tutorial on using Certbot and Let’s Encrypt to enable a free SSL certificate on your self-hosted website.

How to Stay Safe Against Scams

Welcome to our guide on identifying and avoiding every type of imaginable scam from social engineering to pharmaceuticals to parcel fraud.