Bhumi Patel

Configify

<p>Configify 2FA adds Two-Factor Authentication to every important action on your WordPress site, all configurable from a single settings page.</p>
<p>Choose the method that fits your audience:</p>
<ul>
<li>Google Authenticator (TOTP) — RFC 6238 compliant. Works with Google Authenticator, Authy, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password, Bitwarden, and any TOTP app.</li>
<li>Math CAPTCHA — Server-side arithmetic challenge. No external dependencies. Works offline.</li>
<li>Google reCAPTCHA — v2 (checkbox) or v3 (invisible, score-based).</li>
</ul>
<p>Protect any combination of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Login (wp-login.php + WooCommerce)</li>
<li>Registration (WordPress + WooCommerce)</li>
<li>Forgot Password</li>
<li>Change / Reset Password</li>
<li>Comment Submission</li>
</ul>
<h4>What makes Configify 2FA different</h4>
<p>Security Audit Dashboard — Every 2FA event (success, failure, lockout, setup, method change) is recorded with username, IP address, user agent, and timestamp. Filter, search, and export to CSV directly from your admin panel.</p>
<p>Trusted Device Memory — After verifying, users can choose to trust their current device for a set number of days. Subsequent logins from that device skip the 2FA step. Tokens are cryptographically random and bound to the user agent. Admins can revoke trusted devices per user from the profile screen.</p>
<p>Brute-Force Lockout — Repeated 2FA failures trigger a configurable lockout by user and IP address to stop automated attacks.</p>
<p>Email OTP Fallback — When TOTP is active but a user has not yet set up their authenticator app, a 6-digit one-time code is sent to their email address as a fallback.</p>
<p>Per-Role Enforcement — Require 2FA only for Administrators, Editors, or any custom role. Leave all unchecked to apply to every role.</p>
<p>WooCommerce Support — Hooks into WooCommerce login, registration, lost password, and account password change, not just the default WordPress forms.</p>
<h4>Security Details</h4>
<ul>
<li>TOTP implementation is pure PHP with no third-party library dependency. Secrets are stored in WordPress user-meta and never exposed in plain text.</li>
<li>Math CAPTCHA answers are stored in server-side transients with a 10-minute TTL and consumed on first use.</li>
<li>Pending login sessions are stored in a custom database table, expire after 10 minutes, and are purged daily via WP-Cron.</li>
<li>Trusted device tokens are cryptographically random (48 characters), hashed with wp_hash() before storage, and bound to the user agent string.</li>
<li>All form submissions require a WordPress nonce in addition to the 2FA challenge.</li>
<li>TOTP verification includes a clock-skew tolerance of plus or minus two 30-second windows to account for imprecise device clocks.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following external services. No data is ever sent to Configify servers.</p>
<h4>Google reCAPTCHA</h4>
<p>This plugin can use Google reCAPTCHA to protect forms. It is only active when the admin selects reCAPTCHA as the 2FA method.</p>
<p>It sends the user’s IP address and a browser interaction token to Google’s servers each time a protected form is submitted.</p>
<p>This service is provided by Google LLC: <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>, <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<h4>goQR.me QR Code API</h4>
<p>This plugin uses the goQR.me API (api.qrserver.com) to generate QR code images for Google Authenticator setup. It is only used when a user clicks “Generate QR Code” on the Settings page while TOTP is the active method.</p>
<p>It sends the TOTP URI — which contains the site name, the user’s email address, and the TOTP secret — to api.qrserver.com to generate the QR code image. The service does not store or log QR code contents. The generated image is cached for approximately 30 seconds and then deleted.</p>
<p>This service is provided by goQR.me: <a href="https://goqr.me/legal/tos-api.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>, <a href="https://goqr.me/privacy-safety-security/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<h4>WooCommerce Compatibility</h4>
<p>Configify 2FA integrates with WooCommerce out of the box with no additional configuration. It hooks into:</p>
<ul>
<li>woocommerce_process_login_errors</li>
<li>woocommerce_process_registration_errors</li>
<li>woocommerce_lostpassword_form</li>
<li>woocommerce_edit_account_form</li>
<li>woocommerce_save_account_details_errors</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>Configify 2FA stores the following data locally on your server:</p>
<ul>
<li>A TOTP secret and confirmation flag in wp_usermeta.</li>
<li>Trusted device token hashes and expiry timestamps in wp_usermeta.</li>
<li>Pending session tokens in a custom table (wp_c2fa_sessions) — deleted automatically after 10 minutes.</li>
<li>Security audit log entries in a custom table (wp_c2fa_audit_log) — pruned automatically after the configured retention period (default 90 days).</li>
</ul>
<p>All data is removed when the plugin is deleted (via uninstall.php).</p>


Configify 2FA

Flexible Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress. Choose Google Authenticator (TOTP), Math CAPTCHA, or Google reCAPTCHA — with a security audit log.

Paul

Shield Security

<p>Most security plugins hand you a dashboard full of alerts and expect you to know what to do next. Shield works differently.</p>
<p>It blocks threats automatically, repairs what it can on its own, and then <strong>shows you exactly what still needs your attention</strong> — ranked by impact, not volume. Less noise. More action.</p>
<h4>🤖 Security That Runs Itself</h4>
<p>The most powerful thing Shield does is what it handles without you:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic IP Blocking</strong> — every visitor is quietly scored as they interact with your site. Failed logins, firewall blocks, silentCAPTCHA failures, and other signals accumulate into a reputation score. When a visitor’s score crosses the threshold, Shield blocks them — automatically, without you lifting a finger</li>
<li><strong>Automatic File Repair</strong> — when a file integrity scan finds a changed WordPress core file, Shield pulls the original from WordPress.org and restores it. Detected and fixed, without waiting for you to act</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Bot Recognition</strong> — Shield identifies legitimate crawlers (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Apple) and known services (ManageWP, Pingdom, Stripe, CloudFlare) and never blocks them. Your SEO and monitoring tools keep working</li>
</ul>
<h4>🧭 Guided Security, Not Just a Dashboard</h4>
<p>Shield organises your security into four focused areas so you always know where to look:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Queue</strong> — things that need your attention, ranked by priority. Not everything at once — just what matters right now</li>
<li><strong>Investigate</strong> — dig into blocked IPs, security events, and the specific signals that triggered each one</li>
<li><strong>Configure</strong> — guided setup for each protection area, with clear recommendations matched to your site</li>
<li><strong>Reports</strong> — a clear view of what Shield has blocked, detected, and repaired over time</li>
</ul>
<p>The goal: guide you quickly towards action, not bury you in data.</p>
<h4>🛡️ Free Protection</h4>
<p><strong>Bot Blocking & Firewall</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><code>silentCAPTCHA</code></strong> — blocks bad bots on login, registration, lost password, and comment forms using passive signals invisible to real visitors. No CAPTCHA keys. No external requests. No JavaScript that breaks your forms. Everything runs on your server (GDPR friendly).</li>
<li>Firewall rules blocking common WordPress attack patterns — SQL injection probes, known exploit signatures, suspicious request parameters</li>
<li>XML-RPC protection — disable or restrict entirely, including pingbacks and trackbacks</li>
<li>REST API firewall — block unauthenticated requests</li>
<li>Fake crawler detection — identifies bots spoofing legitimate search engines</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Login & Account Security</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Two-factor authentication (2FA)</strong> — email codes, Google Authenticator, or YubiKey OTP for all users</li>
<li>Brute force protection with configurable login attempt limits and cooldown</li>
<li>Session locking — tie sessions to a browser or IP to stop account theft after a successful login</li>
<li>User enumeration blocking — closes off <code>?author=</code> probes used to harvest usernames before an attack</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Scanning & Integrity</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Core file scanning</strong> — compares WordPress core against official checksums and repairs changed files automatically</li>
<li>Suspicious PHP detection — flags PHP files in locations where they have no business being</li>
<li>Abandoned plugin detection — identifies unmaintained plugins most likely to carry unpatched vulnerabilities</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Visibility & Control</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Security Admin PIN</strong> — lock Shield’s own settings so other administrators cannot quietly weaken your configuration</li>
<li>Security activity log — logins, user changes, plugin and theme events, post edits, and suspicious requests: Everything in one clear view</li>
<li>IP Rules — automatic & manual block and bypass rules, CIDR range support, full per-IP request history</li>
</ul>
<h4>🤝 CrowdSec Integration</h4>
<p>Shield is the only WordPress security plugin with a native CrowdSec integration. CrowdSec aggregates threat signals from millions of sites into a shared IP reputation network — your site blocks known attackers before they ever probe you, using intelligence far beyond your own traffic history.</p>
<h4>✨ ShieldPRO</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Passkeys</strong> — phishing-resistant, passwordless login for users</li>
<li><strong>Backup login codes</strong> — emergency 2FA access when a device is lost</li>
<li><strong>AI-based malware scanner</strong> — detects known and unknown PHP malware</li>
<li><strong>Plugin & theme file scanning</strong> — compares installed files against WordPress.org originals, flagging unauthorised changes</li>
<li><strong>Vulnerability scanning</strong> — active checks across all installed plugins and themes</li>
<li><strong>Broader spam protection</strong> — WooCommerce, EDD, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, Elementor, and more</li>
<li><strong>Traffic rate limiting</strong> — cap request rates per IP to absorb high-volume bot floods</li>
<li><strong>User suspension</strong> — manual or automatic suspension of idle accounts</li>
<li><strong>MainWP integration</strong></li>
<li><strong>White Label</strong> — rename and rebrand Shield for client sites</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who It’s For</h4>
<p>Shield suits site owners, agencies, and MSPs who want protection that runs itself — not a plugin that demands constant attention to be useful.</p>
<p>If you have been burned by security plugins that generate more noise than protection, or dashboards that tell you everything is wrong without telling you what to fix, Shield was built to be the alternative.</p>


Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking, Brute-Force Login Protection & File Scanning

Smart WordPress security that blocks bots automatically, guides you to what matters, and repairs problems — without drowning you in noise.

Configify 2FA vs Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking, Brute-Force Login Protection & File Scanning