Amrit Anandh

Kuppuraj

revmakx

<h3>Instant protection against disclosed vulnerabilities</h3>
<p><a href="https://defendwp.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">DefendWP.org</a> is a WordPress plugin that protects your website from hackers exploiting vulnerable code on your website. Security research companies discover vulnerabilities and notify plugin developers to patch them. After some time, they disclose the vulnerability to the public, allowing you to update your plugins. However, this system has flaws. Once vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed, hackers rush to exploit the sites in which you haven’t yet applied the patch.</p>
<h4>A Better Approach: Immediate Protection for All Users</h4>
<p>To solve this, our plugin pushes firewall rules and patches as soon as vulnerabilities are disclosed, ensuring websites are protected without waiting for an official patch. This protection is silent and automatic, ensuring that you are not affected even if you don’t take any immediate action.</p>
<ol>
<li>Immediate Patches Upon Disclosure: When vulnerabilities are disclosed, our plugin pushes patches or firewall rules that prevent exploitation.</li>
<li>Silent Protection: We operate in the background, allowing plugin developers to roll out patches at their own pace without compromising user security.</li>
<li>Free and Accessible: Security should not be a privilege. Our plugin is free and accessible and ensures that all WordPress users are protected from newly disclosed vulnerabilities.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Protecting Everyone, Not Just the Privileged Few</h3>
<p>Security should not be reserved for those who can afford premium services. The spirit of WordPress is inclusivity, and this should extend to security as well. When vulnerabilities are disclosed, they pose a risk to every website, regardless of its owner’s resources. Every WordPress user should have access to immediate protection.</p>
<p>Security researchers play a vital role in identifying vulnerabilities, but the current system leaves too many users exposed. Our approach aims to create a safer WordPress ecosystem for all, by closing the gap between vulnerability disclosure and patching.</p>
<p>This isn’t about taking credit—it’s about prioritizing the safety of small business owners, bloggers, and entrepreneurs who rely on WordPress. By silently closing the vulnerability gap, we aim for a future where WordPress security is accessible to everyone.</p>
<p>Let’s build a safer WordPress ecosystem together—one that protects all users, not just the privileged few.</p>
<h4>For plugin authors: Report a Vulnerability</h4>
<p>Do you have an active vulnerability in your plugin you want to safeguard users from? Report it <a href="https://defendwp.org/submit-a-vulnerability/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Need help with your website’s security? Just send us an email at <a href="mailto:help@defendwp.org" rel="nofollow ugc">help@defendwp.org</a>.</p>
<h4>Note</h4>
<p>This plugin utilizes the <a href="https://api.ipify.org?format=json" rel="nofollow ugc">Ipify.org</a> to provide enhanced functionality. The API allows the plugin to retrieve the exact IP of the current user, which will be used to determine whether the user can access the WordPress site.<a href="https://ipify.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy policy</a></p>
<p>Vulnerabilities, IPs, Plugins and Themes data will be sent between <a href="https://defendwp.org" rel="nofollow ugc">DefendWP.org</a> and the WP site to instantly patch from vulnerabilities.</p>


DefendWP Firewall

Get instant protection against vulnerabilities disclosed by security companies.

Erwan Le Rousseau

FireFart

ethicalhack3r

<p><strong>Please note:</strong> This plugin is no longer actively supported for non-enterprise customers. <strong>We recommend using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack-protect/" rel="ugc">Jetpack Protect</a></strong> – a free security plugin for WordPress that leverages the extensive database of WPScan. Jetpack Protect scans your site and warns you about vulnerabilities, keeping your site one step ahead of security threats and malware.</p>
<p>The WPScan WordPress security plugin is unique in that it uses its own manually curated <a href="https://wpscan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan WordPress Vulnerability Database</a>. The vulnerability database has been around since 2014 and is updated on a daily basis by dedicated WordPress security specialists and the community at large. The database includes more than 21,000 known security vulnerabilities. The plugin uses this database to scan for <a href="https://wpscan.com/wordpresses" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress vulnerabilities</a>, <a href="https://wpscan.com/plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin vulnerabilities</a> and <a href="https://wpscan.com/themes" rel="nofollow ugc">theme vulnerabilities</a>, and has the options to schedule automated daily scans and to send email notifications.</p>
<p>WPScan has a Free API plan that should be suitable for most WordPress websites, however, also has paid plans for users who may need more API calls. To use the WPScan WordPress Security Plugin you will need to use a free API token by <a href="https://wpscan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">registering here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The Free plan allows 25 API requests per day. View the different available <a href="https://wpscan.com/api" rel="nofollow ugc">API plans</a>.</strong></p>
<h4>How many API requests do you need?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Our WordPress scanner makes one API request for the WordPress version, one request per installed plugin and one request per installed theme.</li>
<li>On average, a WordPress website has 22 installed plugins.</li>
<li>The Free plan should cover around 50% of all WordPress websites.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security Checks</h4>
<p>The WPScan WordPress Security Plugin will also check for other security issues, which do not require an API token, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Check for debug.log files</li>
<li>Check for wp-config.php backup files</li>
<li>Check if XML-RPC is enabled</li>
<li>Check for code repository files</li>
<li>Check if default secret keys are used</li>
<li>Check for exported database files</li>
<li>Weak passwords</li>
<li>HTTPS enabled</li>
</ul>
<h4>What does the plugin do?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Scans for known WordPress vulnerabilities, plugin vulnerabilities and theme vulnerabilities;</li>
<li>Does additional security checks;</li>
<li>Shows an icon on the Admin Toolbar with the total number of security vulnerabilities found;</li>
<li>Notifies you by mail when new security vulnerabilities are found.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpscan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan WordPress Vulnerability Database</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan WordPress Security Scanner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/_wpscan_" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan Twitter</a></li>
</ul>


WPScan – WordPress Security Scanner

One of the Must-have security plugin for WordPress Websites. Most importantly baked by Wp Scan Team, Which is in field from way too long and helping community to be safe like a pro. 

They have helped us with their deep knowledge of WordPress Security in one of our products. Their whole intention is to use their security experience to help WordPress Community to be safe. We highly recommended this plugin and whole team for any thing related to security.

Great Minds Made Great Plugin


complete garbage now, used to be amazing now they basically force you to use jetpack.  No replies trying to get enterprise license, another great product (used to be) that automattic has killed and used just for leads to jetpack


Garbage now

WPScan WordPress Security Scanner - Scans your system for security vulnerabilities listed in the WPScan Vulnerability Database.

DefendWP Firewall vs WPScan – WordPress Security Scanner