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Twelve security modules. One lightweight plugin. Zero compromise.
Login Armor is a complete WordPress security stack built for agencies, freelancers and pros who deliver audit-ready sites. No premium tier, no bundled marketing dashboard, no telemetry. Every module runs locally, ships with safe defaults, and stays out of your way.
Stop juggling Wordfence’s bloat, Solid Security’s upsells, and Limit Login Attempts’ gaps — Login Armor delivers twelve independent modules in about one megabyte.
<h4>New in 2.4.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Request Firewall — an optional, 8G-inspired PHP filter that blocks malicious requests (SQL injection, code execution, traversal, XSS, disallowed HTTP methods) before WordPress finishes loading, on Apache, Nginx and LiteSpeed alike. Off by default, it starts in monitor mode and never filters logged-in administrators; every block is logged, aggregated to one incident per IP per hour.</li>
<li>Guided onboarding — a first-run wizard offers a one-click “safe baseline” that turns on the no-risk essentials, so a beginner is protected in seconds. The same “Apply safe baseline” button stays available any time.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Login Armor</h4>
<ul>
<li>No upsells, ever. No “premium” tier, no greyed-out “Pro” buttons. Every feature is GPL.</li>
<li>No external services to sign up for. No API keys, no remote dashboards, no telemetry. The only outbound calls are opt-in: Have I Been Pwned (breach/password checks), Slack/Discord/webhook (notifications), the keyless ipwho.is API (geolocation), and your own WordPress 7 AI connector.</li>
<li>Built to be invisible. Sub-megabyte ZIP, lazy-loaded modules, indexed queries — under 2 ms on a normal login flow.</li>
<li>Multisite-aware, PHP 8.1-native, production-grade defaults. Network-activate a fleet, configure per-site, manage from a complete WP-CLI suite; zero-config gets you 80 percent of the protection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Twelve independent modules</h4>
<ol>
<li>Hide Login — Replace wp-login.php with a custom slug; the old URL returns a 404, and a branded pre-activation modal lets you pick or generate the slug and emails it to you so you can’t lock yourself out. Compatible with multisite, reverse proxies and password-recovery flows.</li>
<li>Brute Force Protection — Cascading lockouts escalating to a 24-hour ban, with subnet blocking and trusted X-Forwarded-For; lostpassword, register, XML-RPC and the REST users endpoint are all gated when an IP is locked, and every lockout surfaces as an incident.</li>
<li>Hardening — Fifteen one-click toggles across surface reduction, credential hardening, request filtering and account monitoring: disable XML-RPC/pingbacks, the file editor, version exposure, application passwords and author enumeration; block reserved usernames (Unicode-confusable detection); add a login honeypot; get alerted on new administrators.</li>
<li>Two-Factor Authentication — TOTP, one-time codes by email and printable backup codes, with trusted devices for thirty days, per-role enforcement, a configurable grace period and an email recovery flow when the authenticator is lost.</li>
<li>Detection and Incidents — A real-time engine groups raw events into six attack patterns, each with a drill-down (timeline, source IPs, target users, severity, UA fingerprint) and one-click actions (reset password, block subnet, mark resolved).</li>
<li>Activity Log — A compliance-ready, tamper-evident (hash-chained) audit trail of admin actions across seven logger domains, with filtering, CSV export, configurable retention and optional signed webhook forwarding to a SIEM.</li>
<li>Login Page Security Headers — Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, Permissions-Policy, Referrer-Policy and X-Content-Type-Options on wp-login.php and the lockout page, in two presets with an optional CSP report-uri; baseline headers can optionally extend site-wide.</li>
<li>Breach Check — Detect logins using a breached password via privacy-preserving k-anonymity against Have I Been Pwned (only a 5-character SHA-1 prefix leaves the server); optional XposedOrNot email lookup, fail-soft so an outage never blocks login.</li>
<li>Password Policy — Enforce strong, unique passwords at registration, profile update and reset: minimum length and character classes, forbid the username inside the password, optionally reject breached passwords, with optional non-locking expiration nudges.</li>
<li>Session Management — Idle-timeout logout measured on real page loads, a maximum session lifetime regardless of “remember me”, an optional single-active-device restriction, and a one-click “sign out all other devices”.</li>
<li>IP Geolocation — Show the attacker’s country on the Incidents and Events tabs; lazy, cached thirty days, capped per page load, private ranges never sent. Keyless ipwho.is by default, swappable for an offline database via a filter.</li>
<li>Request Firewall — An optional, 8G-inspired PHP filter that blocks malicious query strings, paths, HTTP methods and (opt-in) user-agents/referrers before WordPress loads, on Apache/Nginx/LiteSpeed alike; off by default, starts in monitor mode, never filters admins, skips REST/cron/WP-CLI, with an IP/path allowlist (CIDR). Not scored.</li>
</ol>
<h4>AI Security Briefing (optional)</h4>
Built on the WordPress 7 native AI Client, one click turns your last thirty days of activity into a plain-language verdict, an IP picture and a short list of prioritised actions; “Explain with AI” does the same on a single incident. Minimised mode (anonymised signals) is the default and deep mode is an explicit opt-in. No API key is stored — it uses your own WordPress AI connector, so provider and cost stay yours. It always leads with a deterministic facts snapshot that works with or without AI.
<h4>Plus</h4>
<ul>
<li>Guided onboarding — a first-run wizard with a one-click safe baseline (Simple) or manual setup (Advanced); the “Apply safe baseline” button stays available, and upgrading sites never see the wizard.</li>
<li>Security score — a weighted 0-100 read of your posture with a one-click “next best action”; observability features (geolocation, notifications, the AI assistant) are deliberately not scored.</li>
<li>Conflict detection — warns when another login-security plugin (Wordfence, Solid Security, Sucuri, All-In-One Security, SecuPress and more) or a cache plugin (with Hide Login on) could clash.</li>
<li>Notifications — email, Slack, Discord or webhook with SSRF-safe URL validation, severity threshold and rate limiting.</li>
<li>WP-CLI suite and a dashboard widget (14-day sparkline, six headline metrics).</li>
</ul>
GPL forever. PHP 8.1+. WordPress 6.8+. Zero dependencies.
Douze modules de sécurité. Une seule extension légère. Zéro compromis.
Login Armor est une stack complète de sécurité WordPress conçue pour les agences, les freelances et les pros qui livrent des sites prêts à passer un audit. Pas de version premium, pas de tableau de bord marketing intégré, pas de télémétrie. Chaque module tourne en local, embarque des réglages par défaut sécurisés, et reste discret.
Fini de jongler entre la lourdeur de Wordfence, les fenêtres d’upsell de Solid Security et les angles morts de Limit Login Attempts — Login Armor regroupe douze modules indépendants en environ un méga-octet.
<h4>Nouveau en 2.4.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pare-feu de requêtes : un filtre PHP optionnel, inspiré du pare-feu 8G, qui bloque les requêtes malveillantes (injection SQL, exécution de code, traversée de répertoires, XSS, méthodes HTTP non autorisées) avant même que WordPress ait fini de charger, aussi bien sur Apache que Nginx ou LiteSpeed. Désactivé par défaut, il démarre en mode surveillance et ne filtre jamais les administrateurs connectés ; chaque blocage est journalisé, agrégé en un incident par IP et par heure.</li>
<li>Assistant de configuration : à la première activation, un assistant propose une « base sûre » en un clic qui active les essentiels sans risque — un débutant est protégé en quelques secondes. Le même bouton « Appliquer la base sûre » reste disponible à tout moment.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pourquoi Login Armor</h4>
<ul>
<li>Aucun upsell, jamais. Pas de niveau « premium », pas de boutons « Pro » grisés. Tout est en GPL.</li>
<li>Aucun service externe à activer. Pas de clé API, pas de tableau distant, pas de télémétrie. Les seuls appels sortants sont opt-in : Have I Been Pwned (fuites/mots de passe), Slack/Discord/webhook (notifications), l’API sans clé ipwho.is (géolocalisation) et votre propre connecteur IA WordPress 7.</li>
<li>Conçu pour être invisible. ZIP de moins d’un méga, modules chargés à la demande, requêtes indexées — sous 2 ms sur un flux de connexion normal.</li>
<li>Compatible multisite, natif PHP 8.1, réglages prêts pour la production. Activation réseau d’une flotte, configuration par site, pilotage via une suite WP-CLI complète ; sans configuration, vous avez déjà 80 % de la protection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Douze modules indépendants</h4>
<ol>
<li>Masquer la connexion : remplace wp-login.php par une URL personnalisée (l’ancienne renvoie une 404) ; une modale de pré-activation choisit ou génère le slug et vous l’envoie par e-mail pour éviter tout verrouillage. Compatible multisite, reverse proxies et récupération de mot de passe.</li>
<li>Protection contre la force brute : verrouillages en cascade montant à un bannissement de 24 h, blocage de sous-réseaux et support X-Forwarded-For ; lostpassword, register, XML-RPC et l’endpoint REST users sont bloqués pour une IP verrouillée, et chaque verrouillage devient un incident.</li>
<li>Renforcement : quinze bascules en un clic (réduction de surface, identifiants, filtrage des requêtes, surveillance des comptes) — désactiver XML-RPC/pingbacks, l’éditeur de fichiers, l’exposition de version, les mots de passe applicatifs et l’énumération d’auteurs ; bloquer les identifiants réservés (homoglyphes Unicode) ; ajouter un pot de miel ; être alerté à la création d’un administrateur.</li>
<li>Authentification à deux facteurs : TOTP, codes à usage unique par e-mail et codes de secours imprimables, avec appareils de confiance 30 jours, application par rôle, période de grâce configurable et récupération par e-mail en cas de perte.</li>
<li>Détection et incidents : un moteur en temps réel regroupe les événements en six patterns d’attaque, chacun avec une vue détaillée (chronologie, IP sources, comptes cibles, sévérité, empreinte UA) et des actions en un clic.</li>
<li>Journal d’activité : piste d’audit conforme et inviolable (chaîne de hachage) des actions admin sur sept domaines, avec filtrage, export CSV, rétention configurable et transfert webhook signé optionnel vers un SIEM.</li>
<li>En-têtes de sécurité : CSP, X-Frame-Options, Permissions-Policy, Referrer-Policy et X-Content-Type-Options sur wp-login.php et la page de verrouillage, en deux préréglages avec CSP report-uri optionnel ; les en-têtes de base peuvent s’étendre à tout le site.</li>
<li>Détection de fuites : repère les connexions avec un mot de passe fuité via k-anonymat sur Have I Been Pwned (seul un préfixe SHA-1 de 5 caractères sort) ; vérification e-mail XposedOrNot optionnelle, fail-soft.</li>
<li>Politique de mot de passe : impose des mots de passe forts à l’inscription, au profil et à la réinitialisation (longueur, classes de caractères, interdiction de l’identifiant, rejet optionnel des mots de passe fuités), avec expiration optionnelle qui ne verrouille jamais personne dehors.</li>
<li>Gestion des sessions : déconnexion sur inactivité mesurée sur les vrais chargements, durée de vie maximale indépendante de « se souvenir de moi », limitation optionnelle à un seul appareil actif, et « déconnecter tous les autres appareils » en un clic.</li>
<li>Géolocalisation IP : affiche le pays des IP attaquantes dans Incidents et Événements ; recherches paresseuses, cache 30 jours, plafonnées par page, plages privées jamais envoyées. ipwho.is sans clé par défaut, base hors ligne possible via un filtre.</li>
<li>Pare-feu de requêtes : filtre PHP optionnel inspiré du 8G qui bloque chaînes de requête, chemins, méthodes HTTP et (en option) user-agents/referrers malveillants avant le chargement de WordPress, sur Apache/Nginx/LiteSpeed ; désactivé par défaut, démarre en mode surveillance, ne filtre jamais les admins, ignore REST/cron/WP-CLI, allowlist IP/chemins (CIDR). Non noté.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Briefing de sécurité IA (optionnel)</h4>
Bâti sur le client IA natif de WordPress 7, un clic transforme vos trente derniers jours d’activité en un verdict en langage clair, un panorama des IP et une courte liste d’actions prioritaires ; « Expliquer avec l’IA » fait de même sur un incident. Le mode minimisé (signaux anonymisés) est par défaut, le mode approfondi est un opt-in explicite. Aucune clé API stockée : il utilise votre propre connecteur IA WordPress, le coût et le fournisseur restent les vôtres. Il s’ouvre toujours sur un instantané de faits déterministes, utile avec ou sans IA.
<h4>En plus</h4>
<ul>
<li>Assistant de configuration : un assistant à la première activation propose une base sûre en un clic (Simple) ou une voie manuelle (Avancée) ; le bouton « Appliquer la base sûre » reste disponible, et les sites en mise à jour ne le voient jamais.</li>
<li>Score de sécurité : lecture pondérée 0-100 de votre posture avec une action prioritaire en un clic ; les fonctions d’observabilité (géolocalisation, notifications, assistant IA) ne sont pas notées.</li>
<li>Détection de conflits : alerte quand une autre extension de sécurité axée connexion (Wordfence, Solid Security, Sucuri, All-In-One Security, SecuPress et d’autres) ou un plugin de cache (avec Hide Login actif) peut entrer en conflit.</li>
<li>Notifications : e-mail, Slack, Discord ou webhook, avec validation d’URL anti-SSRF, seuil de sévérité et rate limiting.</li>
<li>Suite WP-CLI et widget Tableau de bord (sparkline 14 jours, six métriques clés).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Conçu par</h4>
Login Armor est conçu et maintenu par Fabrice Ducarme de <a href="https://wpformation.com/login-armor/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPFormation</a>, expert WordPress français obsédé par les sites propres, rapides et prêts pour l’audit. On l’utilise sur chaque site qu’on livre.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpformation.com/login-armor/" rel="nofollow ugc">Présentation et fonctionnement de Login Armor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpformation.com/securite-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Guides de sécurité WordPress</a> sur WPFormation</li>
<li><a href="https://wpformation.com/outils/veille-securite/" rel="nofollow ugc">Veille des vulnérabilités WordPress</a> : l’outil de veille sécurité de WPFormation</li>
</ul>
GPL pour toujours. PHP 8.1+. WordPress 6.8+. Zéro dépendance.
<h3>External Services</h3>
<h4>AI Security Briefing (optional)</h4>
The AI Security Briefing and the “Explain with AI” incident analysis are powered by the WordPress 7 native AI Client (<code>wp_ai_client_prompt()</code>). When the administrator clicks the analysis button, LoginArmor asks WordPress to send a prompt to the AI connector that the administrator configured in their own WordPress (for example OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, depending on the connector). LoginArmor itself stores no API key and contacts no endpoint directly: the request, the provider and the cost are owned by the site’s own AI connector.
Data sent: a text prompt describing the security situation. In minimised mode (the default), only anonymised, non-identifying signals are included (counts, categories, severities, role buckets) – no IP address and no username in clear. In deep mode (an explicit, off-by-default opt-in), the prompt additionally includes real IP addresses and event details so the analysis can name specific sources. No data is ever sent unless the administrator clicks the analysis button.
This feature is inactive unless WordPress 7 (or the AI Building Blocks feature plugin) is present with a configured, approved AI connector. The applicable terms and privacy policy are those of the AI provider the administrator chose for their connector; please refer to that provider’s documentation.
<h4>Webhook Notifications (optional)</h4>
When explicitly enabled and configured by the administrator in LoginArmor > Settings > Notifications, the plugin sends incident data to third-party services via webhooks.
Data sent: incident type, severity level, IP address, target username, event count, and site URL.
No data is sent unless the administrator actively enables and configures a notification channel.
<ul>
<li>Slack – <a href="https://slack.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://slack.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>Discord – <a href="https://discord.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://discord.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>Custom Webhook URL – User-configured endpoint (administrator’s responsibility)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Gravatar (Automattic)</h4>
The Activity Log tab uses WordPress core’s <code>get_avatar()</code> function to display user avatars. WordPress may send a hashed email address to <a href="https://gravatar.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravatar</a> servers to retrieve avatar images. This is controlled by Settings > Discussion > Avatars.
<ul>
<li>Gravatar – <a href="https://automattic.com/tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Breach Check – Have I Been Pwned (optional)</h4>
When the administrator explicitly enables the Breach Check module (LoginArmor > Settings > Breach …

Login Armor

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Shield Security

Most security plugins hand you a dashboard full of alerts and expect you to know what to do next. Shield works differently.
It blocks threats automatically, repairs what it can on its own, and then shows you exactly what still needs your attention — ranked by impact, not volume. Less noise. More action.
<h4>🤖 Security That Runs Itself</h4>
The most powerful thing Shield does is what it handles without you:
<ul>
<li>Automatic IP Blocking — 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>Automatic File Repair — 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>Automatic Bot Recognition — 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>
Shield organises your security into four focused areas so you always know where to look:
<ul>
<li>Queue — things that need your attention, ranked by priority. Not everything at once — just what matters right now</li>
<li>Investigate — dig into blocked IPs, security events, and the specific signals that triggered each one</li>
<li>Configure — guided setup for each protection area, with clear recommendations matched to your site</li>
<li>Reports — a clear view of what Shield has blocked, detected, and repaired over time</li>
</ul>
The goal: guide you quickly towards action, not bury you in data.
<h4>🛡️ Free Protection</h4>
Bot Blocking & Firewall
<ul>
<li><code>silentCAPTCHA</code> — 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>
Login & Account Security
<ul>
<li>Two-factor authentication (2FA) — 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>
Scanning & Integrity
<ul>
<li>Core file scanning — 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>
Visibility & Control
<ul>
<li>Security Admin PIN — 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>
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.
<h4>✨ ShieldPRO</h4>
<ul>
<li>Passkeys — phishing-resistant, passwordless login for users</li>
<li>Backup login codes — emergency 2FA access when a device is lost</li>
<li>AI-based malware scanner — detects known and unknown PHP malware</li>
<li>Plugin & theme file scanning — compares installed files against WordPress.org originals, flagging unauthorised changes</li>
<li>Vulnerability scanning — active checks across all installed plugins and themes</li>
<li>Broader spam protection — WooCommerce, EDD, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, Elementor, and more</li>
<li>Traffic rate limiting — cap request rates per IP to absorb high-volume bot floods</li>
<li>User suspension — manual or automatic suspension of idle accounts</li>
<li>MainWP integration</li>
<li>White Label — rename and rebrand Shield for client sites</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who It’s For</h4>
Shield suits site owners, agencies, and MSPs who want protection that runs itself — not a plugin that demands constant attention to be useful.
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.

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.

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