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<p><strong>DominoGuard</strong> is a focused, minimalistic security solution for WordPress. Designed to be fast and lightweight, it provides the essential security features every website needs with a clean configuration.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Limit Login Attempts</strong>: Automatically block IPs for 15 minutes after 5 continuous failed login attempts, keeping brute-force attacks at bay.</li>
<li><strong>Email Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)</strong>: Add an extra layer of security for Administrators. When enabled, logging in requires a 6-digit code sent to the admin’s email address.</li>
<li><strong>Brute Force Protection</strong>: Easily disable XML-RPC, a common vector for brute force and pingback attacks.</li>
<li><strong>Block User Enumeration</strong>: Prevent attackers from discovering your administrator username by blocking <code>/?author=N</code> query scans.</li>
<li><strong>Basic Firewall</strong>: A lightweight WAF that silently blocks simple directory traversal attempts (<code>../</code>) and basic malicious query strings commonly found in automated SQL injections.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why DominoGuard?</h4>
<p>Many security plugins suffer from excessive features that can impact performance. DominoGuard focuses on delivering efficient performance by utilizing standard WordPress functions, keeping your site secure with minimal resource usage.</p>


DominoGuard Security

A minimalistic, lightweight security plugin offering limit login attempts, brute force protection, email 2FA, and a basic firewall.

Svetoslav Marinov

orbisius

<p>This plugin logs and blocks IP address of users who try to login with known bad usernames such as admin, adm etc.<br />
The plugin intentionally hooks very early (plugins_loaded hook) in order to determine if the user should be blocked or not because that way WordPress doesn’t have to waste resources if the user is supposed to be blocked.<br />
It stores the IP address in the uploads folder (.htaccess protected) so it doesn’t hit the database for the ip checks. This may not work on some setups.</p>
<p>The user will get blocked in these cases:<br />
– Tries to login using one of the bad usernames (admin, adm, root, administrator)<br />
– Tries 7 or more ties to guess any password of any user</p>
<p>Note: If you still have an account whose username matches the logins mentioned above please create a new admin account and use that one instead<br />
..  or <em>you will get banned</em> when you attempt to login regardless if your password was valid or not.</p>
<p>When the user should be blocked the plugin outputs Internal Server Error message and stop. That way the attacked doesn’t know what’s happening.<br />
Also the user is has to wait between 3 and 15 seconds before seeing this error message to slow him/her down.</p>
<h4>Features / Benefits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hooks very early and checks if the user is blocked -> blocks to saves resources</li>
<li>Doesn’t block server’s ip or localhost / 127.0.0.1</li>
<li>The plugin should be capable of detecting multiple IP address of a visitor (some proxies pass the original IP address via different request variable)</li>
<li>If an IP is blocked that user is not allowed to access the whole site not just the login page.</li>
<li>Extensible via hooks (filters, actions).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>TODO</p>
<p>Bugs? Suggestions? If you want a faster response contact us through our website’s contact form [ orbisius.com ] and not through the support tab of this plugin or WordPress forums.<br />
We don’t get notified when such requests get posted in the forums.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Support is handled on our site: <a href="http://club.orbisius.com/forums/" title="[new window]" rel="nofollow ugc">http://club.orbisius.com/forums/</a><br />
  Please do NOT use the WordPress forums or other places to seek support.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Author</h4>
<p>Svetoslav Marinov (Slavi) | <a href="http://orbisius.com" title="Custom Web Programming, Web Design, e-commerce, e-store, WordPress Plugin Development, Facebook and Mobile App Development in Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Web and Mobile Programming by Orbisius.com</a></p>


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