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Pura Vida Vulnerability Scanner checks everything installed on your site, including plugins, themes and WordPress core, against the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability database, audits your site’s security posture, and shows you exactly what is at risk and how to fix it.
It does not invent findings. It correlates your installed software and configuration against authoritative public sources (Wordfence Intelligence, CVE/MITRE, the WordPress.org update channel) and live checks of your own server.
Security overview
The dashboard opens with an at-a-glance status table covering:
<ul>
<li>WordPress Version: OK / Warning</li>
<li>Vulnerable Plugins: OK / Critical / High / Medium</li>
<li>Missing Headers: Present / Missing / N/A (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy)</li>
<li>SSL: Valid / Expiring soon / Expired / N/A (certificate expiry)</li>
<li>DNS: OK / Issues / N/A</li>
<li>Email Security: SPF and DMARC (DKIM is selector-specific)</li>
<li>CDN/WAF: Detected / Not detected / N/A</li>
</ul>
What it does
<ul>
<li>Inventories every installed plugin, theme and the WordPress core version.</li>
<li>Matches each item and version against a continuously updated vulnerability feed.</li>
<li>Shows severity (CVSS), the CVE identifier, a description and the recommended fix for every finding.</li>
<li>Audits your configuration and lists prioritized hardening recommendations (2FA, updates, HTTPS, file editor, and more).</li>
<li>Optional scheduled scans with email alerts when new critical/high issues appear.</li>
</ul>
Data sources
<ul>
<li>Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Data Feed: free for personal and commercial use; includes CVE (MITRE) and CVSS information.</li>
<li>CVE (MITRE Corporation): the canonical vulnerability identifiers.</li>
<li>WordPress.org update channel: available core, plugin and theme updates.</li>
<li>Live site checks performed by the plugin: HTTP headers, SSL, DNS, SPF/DMARC and CDN/WAF.</li>
</ul>
This product includes data that may be copyrighted by Defiant Inc. (Wordfence Intelligence) and by the MITRE Corporation (CVE®); their notices are displayed alongside the relevant findings.
Developed by Pura Vida Design Studio, Open Source Security & Website Tools (https://puravidadesignstudio.com/).
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to one external service to function: the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Data Feed.
Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Data Feed (Defiant Inc.) 
This plugin downloads the public WordPress vulnerability database from Wordfence in order to match it against the plugins, themes and core version installed on your site.
<ul>
<li>What is sent: your Wordfence Intelligence API key (in the request Authorization header) and your site’s URL (in the request User-Agent header), sent to https://www.wordfence.com/. The list of plugins and themes installed on your site is NOT transmitted; matching is performed locally on your own server.</li>
<li>When it is sent: when you run a manual scan, and when a scheduled scan runs (about once per day). The downloaded database is cached locally for 24 hours so the service is contacted at most about once per day.</li>
<li>Service terms: https://www.wordfence.com/wordfence-intelligence-terms-and-conditions/</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
The plugin also performs read-only checks against your own site for the Security Overview: a loopback HTTP request to your own home URL (to inspect response headers and detect a CDN/WAF) and DNS lookups for your own domain (to check DNS resolution and SPF/DMARC records). These query your own domain and public DNS only; no data is sent to any third party.

Pura Vida Vulnerability Scanner

Scan your plugins, themes and WordPress core against trusted vulnerability databases and get a clear, prioritized security overview.

Cornelius Bergen

Gauntlet Security can find opportunities for improving the security of your site. It checks many aspects of the site’s configuration including file permissions, server software, PHP, database, plugins, themes, and user accounts. The plugin will give each check a pass, warning, or fail and explain in clear language how you can fix the issue.
How you ultimately choose to patch these issues is up to you but whatever method you use, this plugin should always provide an accurate report. It does not make changes to your database or to any of your files and it should be compatible with all other security plugins.
Checks and recommendations include:
<ul>
<li>Set correct file and directory permissions</li>
<li>Turn off directory indexing</li>
<li>Prevent code execution in the uploads directory</li>
<li>Block files in the includes directory</li>
<li>Prevent access to stray files which could be useful to attackers</li>
<li>Keep PHP up-to-date</li>
<li>Disable dangerous PHP functions</li>
<li>Disable allow_url_include and allow_url_fopen PHP flags</li>
<li>Turn off the display of PHP errors</li>
<li>Don’t advertise the PHP version you are running</li>
<li>Use a strong database password</li>
<li>Change the default database table prefix</li>
<li>Keep WordPress up-to-date</li>
<li>Turn off file editing in the control panel</li>
<li>Set security keys in WP-Config file</li>
<li>Don’t advertise the WordPress version you are running</li>
<li>Turn off self-registration</li>
<li>Force SSL when accessing the admin area</li>
<li>Review the development activity and reputation of all plugins</li>
<li>Remove unused themes from the server</li>
<li>Rename the plugin directory</li>
<li>Move the active theme to an alternate location</li>
<li>Do not use TimThumb</li>
<li>Do not use common user names (such as “admin”)</li>
<li>Do not use weak passwords</li>
<li>Do not have a user with an ID = 1</li>
<li>Minimize the number of admin users</li>
<li>Users should not display their login usernames publicly</li>
<li>Prevent username enumeration through standard author URLs</li>
<li>…more tests planned</li>
</ul>
Check the <a href="screenshots" rel="nofollow ugc">screenshots</a> for more detail on some of the above features.
Many of these security checks are based on recommendations from the WordPress codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress.
<h4>Disclaimer</h4>
Some of the tips included in this plugin only require making small changes to configuration files (.htaccess, php.ini, wp-config.php, functions.php). Others require more in-depth changes to the filesystem or database. Before attempting any of these fixes, you should be comfortable experimenting and know how to undo any change you make. That includes making backups and knowing how restore your site from those backups. I can’t guarantee that the recommendations or sample code provided in this plugin will not break your site or that they will prevent it from being hacked.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Apache web server</li>
<li>WordPress 3.4 minimum</li>
<li>PHP 5.2.7 minimum</li>
</ul>

Gauntlet Security

Performs a detailed security analysis of your WordPress installation. Provides specific instructions on how to make your site more secure.

Pura Vida Vulnerability Scanner vs Gauntlet Security