NinjaScanner – Virus & Malware scan
A lightweight, fast and powerful virus scanner for WordPress.
4.2(34 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, NinjaScanner is a WordPress virus plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 34 reviews. It has been downloaded 924K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7.0+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Downloads are down 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) – Advanced….
4.2/534 reviews
30K+active installs
0%resolved
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
A lightweight, fast and powerful virus scanner for WordPress.
NinjaScanner is a lightweight, fast and powerful virus scanner for WordPress which includes many features to help you scan your blog for malware and virus.
Features
- File integrity checker.
- File comparison viewer.
- Exclusion filters.
- File snapshot.
- Database snapshot.
- Anti-malware/Antivirus.
- Sandbox for quarantined files.
- Ignored files list.
- Google’s Safe Browsing Lookup API.
- Background scans.
- Scheduled scans (Premium).
- WP-CLI integration (Premium).
- Debugging log.
- Email report.
- Integration with NinjaFirewall (WP and WP+ Edition).
- Multi-site support.
- Contextual help.
- And many more…
File Integrity Checker
The File Integrity Checker will compare your WordPress core files as well as your plugin and theme files to their o…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.234 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Doesn’t work
by Gennady Kurushin·4 days ago
I’ve tested it on multiple sites and hosting accounts it gets’ stuck on different stages of scan process making it unreliable. Even when it works, scan is quite slow.
Scan stucks….
by malthead·5 months ago
Scan stucks at 7/14 Building Theme list
For my WP Installation totaly useless
Helped me a lot with malware scan
by atmadja·6 months ago
Helped me a lot with malware scan
gets stuck at step 13
by jupiter8·7 months ago
Sorry, but this plugin does not work 🙁
it just gets stuck at step 13, as others reported as well.
NinjaScanner Gets Stuck at Step 12/14 – Cannot Complete Scans
by planetoid·7 months ago
NinjaScanner scan stuck: The scanning process has been running for over 24 hours and is hanging at Step 12/14 (binary files scan phase) without completing.
Download Trends
Today: 119Yesterday: 168This week: 1KPeriod total: 165K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.2
88.5%
Other
6.1%
v3.0
5.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.2.8
- Fixed a bug where it was not possible to compare two files.
Contributors
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