This run performed the scheduled read-only security monitor for aguiarinjurylawyers.com after the June 12 WordPress spam and RCE incident. The scope was limited to the live Cloudways Flexible and Vultr WordPress root at /home/1615235.cloudwaysapps.com/fctbkwwahp/public_html. No WordPress writes were made.
Credentials were loaded from the local vault, then the monitor connected only to the confirmed live Flexible host with password-auth SSH and changed into the live WordPress root before running WP-CLI and filesystem checks. The run counted published WPCode snippets, listed WPCode rows by status, checked published WPCode content for seonc, base64_decode, eval, shell_exec, passthru, proc_open, assert, and request-variable usage, checked wp_options for the same indicators, checked wp_posts for published spam indicators in title and slug, listed PHP files under wp-content/uploads, and grepped wp-content PHP files for seonc, dangerous execution primitives, eval on request-controlled input, and base64_decode on request-controlled input.
The live site returned 200 for both the public and origin-bypass sample probe /?seonc=codex_probe_20260614. The marker reflected only inside the hidden _wp_http_referer field on the contact intake form, which matched the June 13 baseline and did not indicate execution.
WPCode remained stable at 27 published rows and 19 draft rows. The only published WPCode rows surfaced by the broad request-variable and execution scan were snippet 43605, titled Sitewide Custom SEO Schema, and snippet 60660, titled Fix: 4xx Batch 301 Redirects - April 2026. Both were benign on inspection. 60660 is a redirect map that uses $_GET['page_id'] for a legacy redirect. 43605 is the long-running schema and review-stats snippet and includes controlled REST and option-update logic, not request-controlled execution.
No suspicious options were returned from the broad wp_options scan or the narrower wpcode options scan. wp-content/uploads contained only wp-content/uploads/smush/index.php, which matched the June 13 baseline. No seonc string appeared in wp-content PHP files. No eval or base64_decode hits paired with request-controlled input were returned.
Execution-primitive hits under wp-content were limited to known plugin and vendor paths: kadence-starter-templates, kadence-blocks, google-site-kit, wp-rocket, redis-cache-pro, and the disabled path wp-content/plugins-disabled/worker.disabled-20260509-1519. These were plugin or vendor library usages such as Monolog, Symfony Process, MIME guessing, Redis CLI checks, and similar library internals. They did not indicate a live unknown payload in uploads, themes, or ad hoc PHP files.
A tighter published spam and casino title and slug check returned zero rows. No published seonc or casino-style slug or title indicator was found.
The first combined SSH sweep used SQL inside double-quoted shell strings that referenced $_GET, which tripped shell expansion and stopped one section early with bash: line 11: _GET: unbound variable. The monitor was rerun with safer quoting, and the remaining WPCode and filesystem checks completed successfully.
A broader published spam-content query also produced unusable noise because generic substrings matched normal legal content. That approach was discarded in favor of exact title and slug indicators for casino, viagra, cialis, poker, slot, and seonc, which is the right incident-focused check here.
The monitor stayed read-only because the prompt explicitly prohibited WordPress writes and the goal was detection, not remediation. The live Flexible and Vultr root was treated as the sole source of truth because earlier incident work established that the legacy SSH lane is not the production filesystem. Spam detection was narrowed to exact title and slug indicators because content-wide substring matching on a legal site is too noisy to classify safely.
Primary live root inspected: /home/1615235.cloudwaysapps.com/fctbkwwahp/public_html.
Automation memory file updated after the run at /Users/samaguiar/.codex/automations/sa-wpcode-rce-pattern-monitor/memory.md.
No repo files were modified.
Current state is GREEN. The public site and origin both handled the sample ?seonc= probe normally. Published WPCode inventory remains stable and the two surfaced snippet IDs are known and benign. No suspicious wp_options row was surfaced. No unexpected PHP file exists under uploads beyond the expected Smush index.php. Dangerous function hits remain constrained to known plugin and vendor code paths and one disabled plugin tree.