bean1352

<p>If you sell a WordPress plugin or theme to anyone in the EU, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation 2024/2847) applies to you. It does not matter where you are based or whether your product is free. Agencies distributing custom plugins or themes to EU clients are also in scope.</p>
<p>From September 11, 2026, you need a documented vulnerability reporting process, the required security documents, and a way to monitor your products for known vulnerabilities. ResilienceWP is built for WordPress developers — plugin developers, theme developers, and agencies — to cover all of that in one place.</p>
<p>Non-compliance carries fines up to EUR 15 million or 2.5% of global annual turnover. Authorities can also force non-compliant products off the EU market.</p>
<p>The free plan covers the paperwork side of compliance: checklist, five document templates, and the CRA education guide. Paid plans add automated vulnerability scanning, email alerts, the Incident Center for ENISA notification management, and downloadable compliance reports, all directly inside your WordPress admin. Pro plans also include webhook integrations for CI/CD pipelines and external tools — get real-time notifications when scans complete or vulnerabilities are found.</p>
<p>For pricing, documentation, and more details visit <a href="https://www.resiliencewp.com" rel="nofollow ugc">resiliencewp.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Compliance Checklist (Free)</h4>
<p>26 actionable items, each mapped to a specific CRA article. Five categories cover everything the regulation requires:</p>
<ul>
<li>Risk Assessment: documenting threats, attack surfaces, and mitigations</li>
<li>Secure Development: secure defaults, no known exploitable vulnerabilities at release</li>
<li>Vulnerability Handling: disclosure policy, coordinated reporting, user notification</li>
<li>Required Documentation: SBOM, Declaration of Conformity, technical file</li>
<li>Post-Market Obligations: ongoing monitoring, security updates, end-of-life policy</li>
</ul>
<p>Every item has a plain-English explanation of what it means and why it matters. Check items off as you complete them. Progress saves automatically.</p>
<h4>Document Generator (Free)</h4>
<p>Generate the five documents the CRA requires before you can legally place a product on the EU market:</p>
<ul>
<li>Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (Article 13(6)): your public process for receiving and handling security reports from researchers</li>
<li>Incident Response Plan: your internal procedure when a vulnerability is discovered or actively exploited</li>
<li>EU Declaration of Conformity: the formal self-declaration that your product meets CRA essential requirements</li>
<li>Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) (Article 13): a structured inventory of your plugin’s components, dependencies, and third-party libraries</li>
<li>security.txt: the machine-readable contact file security researchers use to reach you, placed at /.well-known/security.txt</li>
</ul>
<p>Fill in your plugin name, contact details, and a few specifics. Download in text or markdown format. No starting from scratch, no lawyer needed for the first draft.</p>
<h4>CRA Education Centre (Free)</h4>
<p>An article-by-article breakdown of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, written for developers rather than legal teams. Understand what each obligation actually requires: what counts as “active exploitation,” what an SBOM needs to contain, what the 24-hour reporting window really means.</p>
<h4>Vulnerability Scanner (Basic and Pro)</h4>
<p>Connect your account to ResilienceWP and it monitors your plugins against the WPScan vulnerability database on a regular schedule. Weekly on Basic, daily on Pro.</p>
<p>You can monitor any plugin by its WordPress.org slug, not just the plugins currently installed on your site. If your plugin depends on WooCommerce, ACF, or any other third-party plugin, you can add those slugs directly and track vulnerabilities in your dependencies. Plugins can also be added directly from your installed plugins list.</p>
<p>The moment a new vulnerability is found, you get an email with the severity rating, CVE ID, affected version range, and fix version if one is available. Back in your WordPress admin, vulnerabilities are grouped by plugin and sorted by date discovered, so you can see at a glance which plugins have open issues and how old they are.</p>
<p>Each vulnerability card shows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Severity (Critical / High / Medium / Low / Info) with colour coding</li>
<li>CVE identifier linked directly to the NVD entry</li>
<li>The fix version (or “no fix available yet”)</li>
<li>An action hint: whether to update, acknowledge, or open an incident</li>
<li>A button to report the incident directly to the Incident Center</li>
</ul>
<p>Status tracking lets you mark vulnerabilities as Open, Acknowledged, In Progress, Resolved, or False Positive. Export the full vulnerability list as CSV for your compliance records.</p>
<h4>Incident Center (Basic and Pro)</h4>
<p>When a vulnerability in your plugin is being actively exploited, the CRA requires you to notify ENISA within 24 hours. The Incident Center tracks that deadline from the moment you log first awareness and guides you through the complete regulatory workflow.</p>
<p>Creating a new incident logs the discovery timestamp and starts all three countdown timers simultaneously:</p>
<ol>
<li>Early Warning: due within 24 hours of first awareness</li>
<li>Vulnerability Notification: due within 72 hours, with full technical details</li>
<li>Final Report: due within 14 days, including root cause and remediation steps</li>
</ol>
<p>The case view shows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Live countdown timers for each notification deadline, turning amber at 6 hours and red when overdue</li>
<li>A completeness score on your incident report so you know exactly what information is still missing</li>
<li>A “Where to Submit” section with direct links to ENISA’s reporting portal, the EU CSIRT network directory, and the CVE Programme at MITRE</li>
<li>A full audit log recording every action taken, every field updated, and every notification submitted</li>
</ul>
<p>On Pro, you can export the full incident case including all notifications and the complete audit log, formatted for submission to regulators or for your compliance archive.</p>
<h4>Dashboard and Compliance Score</h4>
<p>The dashboard gives you a live compliance score (0-100) with a transparent breakdown:</p>
<ul>
<li>-15 points per open critical vulnerability</li>
<li>-7 points per open high vulnerability</li>
<li>-3 points per open medium vulnerability</li>
<li>-20 points per overdue incident (past the 24-hour ENISA deadline)</li>
<li>-5 points per active open incident</li>
</ul>
<p>It is not a vanity metric. It is a working indicator of where you stand against your CRA obligations at any point in time, with the exact deductions shown so you know what to fix first.</p>
<h4>Compliance Reports and SBOM Export (Basic and Pro)</h4>
<p>Generate a PDF compliance report for auditors or regulators covering your vulnerability history, resolution timeline, and document status. Export your Software Bill of Materials in standard format, as required by CRA Article 13.</p>
<h4>Webhook Integrations (Pro)</h4>
<p>Connect ResilienceWP to your CI/CD pipeline, Slack, or any external tool with webhook callbacks. Configure webhook endpoints in Settings and receive real-time HTTP POST notifications with HMAC-SHA256 signed payloads when:</p>
<ul>
<li>A scheduled or manual scan completes</li>
<li>A new vulnerability is found in one of your monitored plugins</li>
</ul>
<p>Each webhook delivery is logged with status codes and response data, so you can debug integration issues directly from your WordPress admin. Manage up to 5 webhook endpoints per account, toggle them on and off, and filter by event type.</p>
<h4>Who needs to comply</h4>
<ul>
<li>Commercial plugin developers: selling to EU customers through any channel (your site, Envato, direct) makes you the manufacturer under the CRA</li>
<li>WordPress agencies: distributing custom-built plugins to EU clients, even for a single client, counts as placing a product on the market</li>
<li>Freemium developers: having a free version does not exempt you; any commercial activity tied to the product brings you in scope</li>
<li>Theme developers: themes with shortcodes, API integrations, or custom post types may qualify as “products with digital elements”</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key dates</h4>
<ul>
<li>10 December 2024: CRA entered into force. Transition period began.</li>
<li>11 September 2026: Vulnerability and incident reporting obligations apply.</li>
<li>11 December 2027: Full CRA application. All requirements in effect.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Source Code</h4>
<p>The admin dashboard is built with React and compiled using Vite. The uncompiled source is included in the plugin ZIP under admin/src/. To rebuild from source:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install Node.js 20+ and pnpm 10+</li>
<li>Run <code>pnpm install</code> in the plugin directory</li>
<li>Run <code>pnpm build</code> to recompile the admin dashboard</li>
</ol>
<h4>External Services</h4>
<p><strong>ResilienceWP API</strong> (https://api.resiliencewp.com)<br />
Used for API key verification, vulnerability scanning, incident management, and report generation. Data sent: API key, WordPress site URL, plugin slugs and versions.<br />
<a href="https://www.resiliencewp.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://www.resiliencewp.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p><strong>WPScan</strong> (via ResilienceWP API)<br />
Plugin vulnerability data is sourced from the WPScan database. Plugin slugs are sent through the ResilienceWP API. No personal data is sent from your WordPress installation directly to WPScan.<br />
<a href="https://wpscan.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan Terms</a> | <a href="https://wpscan.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p><strong>Paddle</strong> (payments)<br />
Subscription payments are processed by Paddle as merchant of record. Payment data is handled entirely by Paddle and never passes through our servers.<br />
<a href="https://www.paddle.com/legal/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Paddle Terms</a> | <a href="https://www.paddle.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Paddle Privacy</a></p>


Resilience Compliance Manager

CRA compliance for WordPress developers. Checklist, document generator, vulnerability scanner, and incident reporting for the 2026 EU deadline.

wpazleen

Sabbir Sam

sambyte

wpxpertise

Function Deck

<p>Activity Guard is a free WordPress plugin that covers four things most plugins charge separately for: a complete activity log, an IP-based security firewall, a plugin vulnerability scanner, and WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics. Alerts go out in real time to Slack, Telegram, or email.</p>
<p>Most activity log plugins stop at logging. Most security plugins don’t touch WooCommerce. Activity Guard does all of it in one dashboard, so you’re not juggling four separate plugins or paying for features that should come standard.</p>
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<p><a href="https://wpazleen.com/notifier-to-slack/" rel="nofollow ugc">Activity Guard Website</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Support</a></p>
<h3>What Makes Activity Guard Different</h3>
<p>Other free activity log plugins make you upgrade for Slack alerts, security scanning, or WooCommerce tracking. Activity Guard ships all of it for free, including Telegram notifications, IP firewall with emergency session shutdown, plugin CVE scanning, and WooCommerce incomplete-order analytics.</p>
<p>No other free plugin on WordPress.org combines these four in one place:</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete activity log with charts and visual summaries</li>
<li>IP firewall with manual blocking, CIDR ranges, and conditional rules</li>
<li>Plugin vulnerability scanner cross-referencing NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>WooCommerce analytics including abandoned cart recovery rate tracking</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Activity Log</h3>
<p>Activity Guard records every meaningful change on your site, including the IP address, username, timestamp, and the exact change made. The log covers:</p>
<ul>
<li>User logins, logouts, and failed login attempts</li>
<li>User registrations, role changes, and profile edits</li>
<li>Pages, posts, and custom post types: create, edit, delete, status changes</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activations, deactivations, updates, and deletions</li>
<li>WordPress core settings and configuration changes</li>
<li>Menu, widget, and sidebar modifications</li>
<li>Email delivery tracking (email log)</li>
<li>Form submissions from Contact Form 7, SimpleForm, and others</li>
<li>Admin settings changes and debug log events</li>
<li>Cron job scheduling and background process tracking</li>
<li>Script modification and file change detection</li>
<li>Visitor traffic monitoring with an on/off toggle</li>
</ul>
<p>Visual charts summarize your audit log at a glance. No need to scroll through raw log tables to understand what’s happening on your site.</p>
<h3>Security Firewall and IP Blocking</h3>
<p>Activity Guard actively blocks threats rather than just recording them after the fact.</p>
<ul>
<li>IP blocking by manual entry, CIDR range, or conditional rule</li>
<li>Emergency shutdown: force-logout every active session on your site with one click</li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile login protection against bots and brute force attacks</li>
<li>Login rate limiting to stop credential-stuffing</li>
<li>Bot detection and automatic IP blocking</li>
<li>Restrict or fully disable XML-RPC access</li>
<li>Core file integrity scanner to detect unauthorized file changes</li>
<li>File integrity monitoring across plugins and themes</li>
<li>Block TOR network access</li>
<li>Block vulnerability scanner user agents</li>
<li>HTTP security headers: custom, logged, and enforced</li>
<li>WordPress version hiding</li>
<li>404 error tracking and suspicious HTTP request alerts</li>
<li>Admin dashboard visitor tracking</li>
<li>Cron job failure and site downtime monitoring</li>
</ul>
<p>The Emergency Shutdown feature is specific to Activity Guard: one click and every logged-in session on your site ends immediately. Useful when you detect a breach in progress and need everyone out now.</p>
<h3>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner</h3>
<p>Activity Guard scans every installed plugin and theme against multiple vulnerability databases before problems develop:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detect plugins with known CVEs across NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>Flag outdated plugins not compatible with your WordPress version</li>
<li>Identify abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)</li>
<li>Warn about plugins with low install counts or poor ratings</li>
</ul>
<p>No other free activity log plugin on WordPress.org includes a built-in multi-database vulnerability scanner.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Activity Log and Analytics</h3>
<p>Activity Guard logs every WooCommerce event and adds analytics built specifically for store owners.</p>
<p>Order tracking covers status changes, payments, refunds, and cancellations. You also get stock level changes and low-stock events, coupon creation and usage, product pricing edits, billing and shipping address updates, customer registration changes, and real-time shipping status updates.</p>
<p>The abandoned cart and incomplete-order analytics go further than basic logging. The dashboard shows checkout drop-off rates, recovery potential, recovery rate, and how customers interact with their carts before leaving. This helps you understand where revenue is being lost, not just that it was lost.</p>
<p>WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics with recovery rate tracking is included free. No competing free activity log plugin on WordPress.org provides this.</p>
<h3>Slack and Telegram Notifications</h3>
<p>Activity Guard sends alerts the moment a critical event occurs, across four channels:</p>
<ul>
<li>Slack: route alerts to any channel, tag specific users or groups with @mentions</li>
<li>Telegram: real-time activity and security alerts direct to your Telegram chat</li>
<li>Email: configurable per event type</li>
<li>Admin dashboard: in-panel notification view</li>
</ul>
<p>Events that trigger alerts include core file changes, plugin and theme updates (with the username that triggered the update), WooCommerce orders, payments, coupon usage, incomplete order follow-ups, product edits, stock changes, login and registration events, page and post changes, form submissions, and admin settings changes. A daily digest and weekly plugin download summary are also available.</p>
<p>You can schedule notifications for specific times and control exactly which events send alerts.</p>
<h3>Admin and Developer Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance mode toggle from the dashboard</li>
<li>Menu and widget change tracking</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activation and deactivation logs</li>
<li>Script modification detection</li>
<li>HTTP security header change logging</li>
<li>Debug log and fatal error detection</li>
<li>Email log: full delivery history for all outgoing WordPress emails</li>
<li>Contact Form 7 and SimpleForm integration alerts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who Uses Activity Guard</h3>
<p>WooCommerce store owners use it to track every order, coupon, product change, and shipping event, and to recover revenue with abandoned cart analytics. Site administrators use it to know exactly who changed what, instantly log out suspicious users, and maintain a clean audit trail. Agencies and developers use it to monitor plugin updates, configuration changes, fatal errors, and debug logs across client sites. Security-focused admins use it to block IPs, scan for CVEs, monitor file integrity, and trigger emergency shutdowns. Multi-author sites use it to hold contributors accountable with full user activity logging and role-change tracking.</p>
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<h3>External Services</h3>
<h4>Slack Webhook Integration</h4>
<p>Activity Guard sends notifications to your Slack workspace using a Slack incoming webhook URL that you provide. To set one up:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a Slack app or use an existing one</li>
<li>Enable Incoming Webhooks in the app settings</li>
<li>Add a webhook to your workspace</li>
<li>Paste the webhook URL into Activity Guard settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Cloudflare Turnstile</h4>
<p>Activity Guard uses <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a> for login bot protection. See Cloudflare’s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a> for details.</p>
<h4>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner – Data Sources</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress.org Plugin API: retrieves plugin metadata including latest version, last updated date, rating, and active install count. <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPAzleen API: private endpoint for known vulnerabilities by plugin and version. No sensitive data is transmitted. <a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPVulnerability.net: public API for CVE-based vulnerability data. <a href="https://www.wpvulnerability.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>National Vulnerability Database (NVD): official CVE data from NIST. <a href="https://www.nist.gov/oism/site-privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<p>All scans run locally using public metadata and vulnerability feeds. Activity Guard does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information during scans.</p>
<h4>Freemius</h4>
<p>Activity Guard uses the <a href="https://freemius.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> SDK for optional telemetry. No data is collected by default. Data collection only starts after you explicitly confirm in the admin notice. See the <a href="https://freemius.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius FAQ</a> for details.</p>
<h4>WPAzleen Settings API</h4>
<p>Loads display settings for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area.</p>
<p><a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPAzleen Privacy Policy</a></p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The source files for all compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS in this plugin are publicly available at:</p>
<p>https://github.com/wpazleen/activity-guard</p>
<p>Build instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository or direct visit the src directory.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> in the root to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.</li>
<li>The compiled files are output to <code>build/</code>.</li>
</ol>


Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking


Excellent plugin and easy to setup thanks for the video.


Original idea and super useful plugin!

WordPress activity log with IP blocking, plugin vulnerability scanner, WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics, and free Slack and Telegram alerts.

Resilience Compliance Manager vs Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking