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Lunexia .htaccess Shield is a comprehensive security plugin that helps harden your website by automatically applying proven .htaccess security rules. The latest release includes a modern WordPress 7.0-ready admin interface, a polished dashboard, and premium workflow improvements for Firewall and Malware Scan access.
Key Features:
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<li>Redesigned Security Dashboard: Four separate protection score widgets for rule coverage, module coverage, malware scanning, and threat monitoring.</li>
<li>Premium Admin Tabs: Firewall and Malware Scan tabs now display premium badges like Advanced Settings.</li>
<li>Plugin Layout Centering: Admin screens are centered at 80% width for a clean, modern WordPress 7.0 experience.</li>
<li>Enterprise Protection Status Cards: View active/inactive protection modules such as bot protection, rate limiting, live traffic monitoring, and quarantine system status.</li>
<li>Security Statistics Panel: Track successful logins, failed logins, blocked IPs, pending approvals, and firewall protection status in one place.</li>
<li>Security Intelligence Dashboard: View malware detections, blocked attacks, IP reputation, and threat intelligence in a single admin experience.</li>
<li>One-Click Security Rules: Enable or disable security rules with a simple toggle interface.</li>
<li>Security Score: Visual protection score meter for instant status awareness.</li>
<li>Automatic .htaccess Management: Safely apply rules without manual editing.</li>
<li>Backup & Restore: Create backups before changes and restore if needed.</li>
<li>Admin Approval Workflow: Require admin approval for new Administrator/Editor accounts before login.</li>
<li>OTP Login Protection: Add one-time password verification for selected user roles.</li>
<li>Backend Access Protection: Restrict access to <code>wp-admin</code> and <code>wp-login.php</code> for blocked IPs.</li>
<li>Feature Preview: Preview recommended premium hardening features before enabling them.</li>
<li>System Status: Monitor your server’s security readiness.</li>
<li>Malware Scanner and Quarantine Manager: Premium scanner with quarantine controls, findings refresh, and scan actions.</li>
<li>WordPress 7.0 Compatible: Designed to look great in the new Modern admin theme.</li>
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Security Rules Included:
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<li>Disable directory browsing</li>
<li>Protect wp-config.php and .htaccess files</li>
<li>Block access to sensitive files</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC for improved security</li>
<li>Prevent PHP execution in uploads folder</li>
<li>Malicious query string protection</li>
<li>Security headers (XSS, CSRF, HSTS, etc.)</li>
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Safe & Reliable: 
* Uses core functions for .htaccess manipulation 
* Creates automatic backups before changes 
* Checks file permissions before applying rules 
* Non-destructive – rules are wrapped in markers for easy removal
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to external services as follows:
Google Sheets API Service 
This plugin uses the Google Sheets API (via Google Apps Script) to validate license keys when users activate a license. This is an optional feature and is only used when a user voluntarily attempts to activate a license key.
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<li>Purpose: Validates license key authenticity and domain binding</li>
<li>When it’s used: Only when users click “Activate License” in the plugin settings</li>
<li>What data is sent: License key and website domain name</li>
<li>Service provider: Google (Google Sheets / Google Apps Script)</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
<li>Data retention: License validation data is stored only on the user’s Google Sheet, which they control</li>
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<h3>Support</h3>
For support, please visit the plugin forum or check the documentation.
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed with security best practices in mind.

Lunexia .htaccess Shield

Professional website security hardening with IP blocking system by automatically applying common .htaccess security rules safely.

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Harden your web applications.
HTTP header fields are components of the header section of request and response messages. The headers define the operating parameters of an HTTP transaction.
Securing HTTP headers will improve the resilience of your web application against many common attacks including those that are on the OWASP top 10 list.
Securing headers can also improve your SEO rank and in addition to preventing websites from being marked as dangerous by browsers and antivirus applications.
Protect sensitive user information and be compliant with privacy regulations. Defend users from stealing private data by protecting website cookies. Use the proper directive such as “secure”, “httponly” and “samesite”, all of those will be applied automatically by “Secure HTTP Headers” plugin.
Secure HTTP Headers will automatically analyze any website and will build up secure headers directives, by the latest best practice.
In addition, Secure HTTP Headers offers fully configurable options, apply or skip any header directive as needed.
Install and activate Secure HTTP Headers with full confidence, the deactivation of this plugin will return your website header directives to their original state.
<h3>Main plugin functionality</h3>
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HTTP Strict Transport Security – helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks and cookie hijacking
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X-Frame-Options – helps to protect users against ClickJacking attacks
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X-Content-Type-Options – helps to prevent the browser from MIME-sniffing
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Referrer-Policy – helps to control how much referrer information should be included with requests
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Clear-Site-Data – helps to ensure that data is deleted from the browser if the user logs out
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X-Download-Options – helps to control how IE 8 will handle downloaded HTML files
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Access-Control-Allow-Origin – helps to ensure whether the response can be shared with requesting code from the given origin
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Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy – helps to prevent a document from loading any cross-origin resources that don’t explicitly grant the document permission
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Permissions-Policy – helps to allow and deny the use of browser features in its own frame, and in content within any iframe elements in the document
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Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy – helps to protect websites against a set of cross-origin attacks dubbed XS-Leaks
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Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy – helps to protect websites against speculative side-channel attacks, like Spectre, as well as Cross-Site Script Inclusion attacks
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X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies – helps to control how cross-domain requests from Flash and PDF documents are handled
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Cookie Http-Only flag – helps to protect websites against Cross-Site Scripting, or XSS attacks
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Cookie Secure flag – helps to ensure that cookie is sent over a secure connection
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Cookie Samesite Lax flag – helps to protect websites against CSRF and XSSI attacks
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Expect-CT – helps to prevent the use of misissued certificates for a website. Note: The Expect-CT will likely become obsolete in June 2021
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<h3>What are the optional extras?</h3>
Magnisec is offering “Secure HTTP Headers enhanced”
A plugin that contains, in addition, an engine that watches and builds in any website changes a CSP – Content Security Policy that is best practice and recommended by all professional securities experts, that mitigate XSS -Cross site Scripting, one of the most common and destructive attacks.
Price: 50$ /year for a domain.
More details and installation <a href="https://magnisec.com" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>

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