WP Crontrol<\/a> plugin allows you to see the active Cronjobs in your WordPress website.<\/p>\nYou can view active Cronjobs<\/strong> and update or delete them.
\nAfter installing the plugin, you can find it in your Admin \u00bb Tools \u00bb Cron Events.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\nCronjobs and Hackers<\/h2>\n
Hackers can use Cronjobs to perform certain tasks periodically.<\/strong>
\nThat’s why it’s important to see which Cronjobs are active!<\/p>\nConsider the following malicious Cronjobs, for example:<\/p>\n
\n- A Cronjob that registers an administrator account<\/strong>.
\nIf such a Cronjob runs every hour, you can delete whatever you want, but hackers will still find their way in.<\/li>\n- A Cronjob that deletes your logs<\/strong>.
\nThis allows a hacker to operate without leaving any traces.<\/li>\n- A Cronjob that deletes accounts<\/strong>.
\nIf your account is deleted, you won’t be able to manage the website, and the hacker will have control over it.<\/li>\n- A Cronjob that regenerates your password<\/strong>.
\nIt’s incredibly frustrating to receive a new password every time. You can do a reset, but having to do it every hour is not ideal.<\/li>\n- Cronjobs for forwarding data<\/strong>.
\nIf a task is set up to forward your and your users’ information every 5 minutes, a hacker will know about an order or website change faster than you do!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What a Cronjob is according to Wikipedia: A Cronjob or crontab is a Unix command that executes a program or script at a scheduled time. Cronjobs are used in Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Apple Macintosh. The word ‘cron’ comes from the English word chronograph, which is a type of stopwatch. What Cronjobs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}