WP Engine
WP Engine is a large managed-WordPress hosting provider that runs and maintains WordPress sites for its customers. ScanMalware detects it from WP Engine-specific headers and hosting signatures.
Managed hosting generally keeps the platform patched, but plugin-level risk and the site’s own content still apply — the host is not by itself a trust signal.
Commonly deployed alongside WP Engine
Of the 4,168 public scans where WP Engine was detected, these are the technologies most often present on the same site. The share is the percentage of WP Engine sites that also ran each one.
| Technology | Category | Share of WP Engine sites |
|---|---|---|
| MySQL | wappalyzer | 95.9% |
| PHP | wappalyzer | 95.88% |
| Cloudflare | wappalyzer | 87.97% |
| Cloudflare Bot Management | wappalyzer | 86.86% |
| WordPress | cms | 83.37% |
| HTTP/3 | wappalyzer | 79.7% |
| Open-Graph-Protocol | miscellaneous | 68.62% |
| JQuery | miscellaneous | 66.54% |
| jQuery | wappalyzer | 64.02% |
| Google Analytics | wappalyzer | 55.56% |
| MetaGenerator | miscellaneous | 53.64% |
| Google Tag Manager | wappalyzer | 43.94% |
| Google-Analytics | miscellaneous | 41.13% |
| PoweredBy | miscellaneous | 27.83% |
How ScanMalware detects WP Engine
WP Engine is detected by analysing the response headers, HTML markup, JavaScript runtime and asset URLs captured when ScanMalware loads the site in a real headless browser.
From any scan you can pivot into related signals — JARM TLS fingerprints, ASN ownership and BGP routing, certificate history, JavaScript analysis and the overall security verdict — to understand not just that WP Engine is present, but how it is being used. Open the full search interface for WP Engine →
Recent public scans featuring WP Engine
A rolling sample of recent public scans where WP Engine was detected. Listing a site here is not a safety judgement — open a scan to see its full verdict.
| Site | Scanned |
|---|---|
| Patricia Heaton Celebrates Three Years of Sobriety | Recover Alaska https://recoveralaska.org/patricia-heaton-celebrates-three-years-of-sobriety/ | 2026-08-13 |
| Patriots https://patriots.1rmg.com/ | 2026-08-13 |
| Experts Found Chrome Extensions Cookie Stuffing. Here’s How TUNE Could Have Helped. https://www.tune.com/blog/experts-found-chrome-extensions-cookie-stuffing-heres-how-tune-c… | 2026-08-12 |
| What Is Cookie Stuffing - How Does It Work? | SEON https://seon.io/resources/dictionary/cookie-stuffing/ | 2026-08-12 |
| Arrests and Arrested Persons - Honolulu Police Department https://www.honolulupd.org/policy/policy-arrests-and-arrested-persons/ | 2026-08-12 |
| US Squash https://ussquash.com | 2026-08-12 |
| Meet Our Team | Texas Law Guns https://www.vblawgroup.com/attorneys/ | 2026-08-12 |
| San Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers | Hunter, Lane & Jampala PLLC https://www.hljdefense.com/ | 2026-08-12 |
Frequently asked questions about WP Engine
- Does using WP Engine mean a website is unsafe?
- No. WP Engine is a stack component, not a verdict. ScanMalware scores the whole page — its scripts, redirects, certificates, threat-intelligence matches and behaviour — so a site using WP Engine can be perfectly safe or actively malicious.
- How many sites using WP Engine has ScanMalware scanned?
- WP Engine has been detected in 4,168 public scans on ScanMalware.com. Each scan is a real headless-browser visit, and the figure updates as new URLs are submitted.
- What technologies are commonly used with WP Engine?
- Across scanned sites, WP Engine is most often seen alongside MySQL, PHP and Cloudflare. The full co-occurrence breakdown is listed on this page.
Browse all profiled technologies on the technology index, or scan a URL to see its full stack.