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<p>Apocalypse Meow’s main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to user accounts and logins. This includes things like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Brute-force login-in protection;</li>
<li>Customizable password strength requirements;</li>
<li>XML-RPC access controls;</li>
<li>Account access alerts;</li>
<li>Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans);</li>
<li>User enumeration prevention;</li>
<li>Registration SPAM protection;</li>
<li>Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult;</li>
<li>Anonymize/scrub leaky remote request headers;</li>
</ul>
<p>Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques, etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources with additional information.</p>
<p>Knowledge is power!</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.4+.</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or later.</li>
<li>PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre.</li>
<li><code>CREATE</code> and <code>DROP</code> MySQL grants.</li>
<li>Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported).</li>
</ul>
<p>Please note: it is <strong>not safe</strong> to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has reached its <a href="http://php.net/supported-versions.php" rel="nofollow ugc">End of Life</a>. Future releases of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features, just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂</p>
<h3>Log Monitoring</h3>
<p>Some robots are so dumb they’ll continue trying to submit credentials even after the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in history table.  One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program like <a href="http://www.fail2ban.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fail2Ban</a> or <a href="https://ossec.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">OSSEC</a> to ban users via the firewall.</p>
<p>Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form. Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to <code>wp-login.php</code>.  Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those fools.</p>
<p>If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the <code>die()</code> option, requests for <code>?author=X</code> will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to the CMS backend. This information — including the end user’s public IP address, username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors.</p>
<p>This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any third parties.</p>
<p>Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are automatically removed after 90 days.</p>
<p>Please note: Apocalypse Meow <strong>DOES NOT</strong> integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms provided by this plugin. Haha.)</p>


Apocalypse Meow

Works nicely to protect from brute force logins, and the developer is fantastic!

great protection

A simple, light-weight collection of tools to harden WordPress security and help mitigate common types of attacks.

SecurityWP

<p>SecurityWP is a powerful WordPress security plugin that will protect your website from hackers, attacks and other threats. It will protect your website from SQLi Attacks (SQL Injections), XSS Vulnerabilities, Malicious Files (Viruses) and many other types of threats.</p>
<p>SecurityWP uses an intelligent algorithms to detect all known hacker attacks as well as new unknown threats using code recognition and patterns, and automatically takes action.</p>
<p>SecurityWP is directly integrated with WordPress, you can view all logs in the Admin Panel and it is also integrated with Ban System from which can be banned Visitors (IP Addresses), IP Ranges, Internet Service Providers (ISP). SecurityWP has many features and settings. With its help can be easily managed the security of your website.</p>
<p>SecurityWP is a powerful Web Application Firewall designed to protect WordPress. It allows any website administrator to benefit from very advanced and powerful security features. It is very fast, optimised and requires very low system resource.</p>
<p><strong>Awesome Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Blocks IP after maximum retries allowed</li>
<li>Extended Lockout after maximum lockouts allowed</li>
<li>Email notification to admin after max lockouts</li>
<li>Blacklist IP/IP range</li>
<li>Whitelist IP/IP range</li>
<li>Check logs of failed attempts</li>
<li>MD5 Checksum – of Core WordPress Files. The admin can check and ignore files as well.</li>
<li>Two Factor Auth via Email – On login, an email will be sent to the email address of that account with a temporary 6 digit code to complete the login.</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC – An option to simply disable XML-RPC in WordPress.</li>
<li>Disable Pingbacks – Simple way to disable PingBacks.</li>
<li>Prevent usernames discovery via <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/users/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API requests</a> and <a href="https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-user-enumeration/" rel="nofollow ugc">username enumeration</a></li>
<li>Check and/or validate user passwords using <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords" rel="nofollow ugc">Pwned Passwords</a> database and <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2#PwnedPasswords" rel="nofollow ugc">API</a></li>
<li>Notifications</li>
<li>Events logging</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Pro Features</strong></p>
<h4>Web application firewall (WAF)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Blocks malicious bots and spam</li>
<li>Blocks SQL injection attacks</li>
<li>Blocks executable file uploads</li>
<li>Blocks directory traversal attacks</li>
<li>Prevents malware infections</li>
<li>New rules are received automatically</li>
<li>Does not slow down the website</li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy HTTP Security Headers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set X-Frame-Options Header</li>
<li>Set X-XSS-Protection Header</li>
<li>Set X-Content-Type-Options Header</li>
<li>Set Referrer-Policy Header</li>
<li>Set Strict-Transport-Security Header</li>
<li>Set Content-Security-Policy Header</li>
<li>Hide X Powered By Header</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Get Support and Pro Version</strong></p>
<p>Get professional support from our experts and pro features to take your site’s security to the next level with <a href="https://securitywp.io/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">SecurityWP</a>.</p>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
<p><strong>Like the plugin?</strong></p>
<p>If you like SecurityWP, please take a moment to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/securitywp/reviews/?rate=5#new-post">give a 5-star rating</a>. It helps to keep development and support going strong. Thank you!</p>


SecurityWP – Advanced Security & Firewall

A powerful wordpress security plugin. Advanced protection against malicious requests.

Apocalypse Meow vs SecurityWP – Advanced Security & Firewall