Your WordPress security
scorecard.

This checklist covers the protections you can verify yourself: updates, backups, strong passwords, security plugins, SSL, and file permissions. What it cannot check is the state of your actual files - whether malware is already hiding in your install, whether your backups restore, or whether last month's plugin conflict left a backdoor behind.

That is what a real security audit adds: a scan of core files against clean copies, a review of admin users and cron jobs, and a test restore of your latest backup. If your score is low, start with the unchecked items - most take under an hour. If your score is high but the site has been hacked before, the checklist passing does not mean you are clean.