Uğur Biçer

fyndsoft

<p>Are you tired of bloated security plugins that slow down your website and clutter your database?</p>
<p>SecureFusion is designed for WordPress site administrators, developers, and agency owners who demand lightweight, robust, and performance-optimized protection. It acts as an active shield against brute-force attacks, remote XML-RPC exploits, and malicious injections, while keeping your loading speeds lightning fast.</p>
<p>SecureFusion helps you enforce strict Content Security Policies (CSP), hide standard administrative entry points, block automated traffic clusters, track successful/failed logins, block spam comment IPs directly, and monitor unauthorized access patterns via a clean, modern dashboard.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>1. Login Protection & Interactive Monitoring</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Failed Login Attempts Log:</strong> Visually tracks unauthorized login attempts, displaying timestamps, IP addresses, and lockouts.</li>
<li><strong>IP Range Clustering (/24 Subnets):</strong> Groups attacking IPs into standard /24 subnets. Admins can view individual subnet IPs and copy the CIDR lists to a firewall or Cloudflare blacklist.</li>
<li><strong>Custom Login URL:</strong> Obfuscates <code>wp-login.php</code> and <code>wp-admin</code> access by changing it to a secret URL, stopping automated bots instantly.</li>
<li><strong>Brute-Force Lockout:</strong> Restricts login attempts and locks out offending IPs.</li>
<li><strong>Modify Login Errors:</strong> Alters generic authentication errors so hackers cannot verify whether they got the username or password correct.</li>
</ul>
<h4>2. Firewall & Active Guard</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Filter Bad Requests:</strong> Screens URL requests to block XSS, CSRF, and code injection attempts before they reach your theme or database.</li>
<li><strong>REST API Control:</strong> Restricts public endpoint scraping, preventing attackers from harvesting user lists or plugin info.</li>
<li><strong>Content Security Policy (CSP):</strong> Easily configure and inject headers to control script, style, and media execution sources in the client browser.</li>
</ul>
<h4>3. XML-RPC Shield</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>DDoS Amplification Defense:</strong> Fully disable XML-RPC, or selectively disable pingbacks, preventing your server from participating in DDoS botnets.</li>
<li><strong>XML-RPC Login Protection:</strong> Specifically blocks remote credentials verification through XML-RPC.</li>
</ul>
<h4>4. Enforced SSL / HTTPS</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Secure Protocol Redirection:</strong> Forces HTTP to HTTPS redirection across admin screens, login pages, or the entire site to guarantee secure data transmission.</li>
</ul>
<h4>5. Comments IP Blocking & Bulk Shield</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Individual Commenter IP Blocking:</strong> Block or unblock comment author IP addresses directly from the WordPress Comments list page.</li>
<li><strong>Bulk Spam IP Blocking:</strong> Instantly block all IP addresses associated with spam comments currently in the Spam directory.</li>
<li><strong>Smart CIDR Range Calculation:</strong> Option to block entire /24 IPv4 subnets or /64 IPv6 ranges of spam comments automatically based on IP distribution to stop persistent spam networks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6. IP Spoofing Prevention & Successful Login Tracking</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Successful Login Logging:</strong> Tracks successful logins to audit administrator and user access alongside failed login attempts.</li>
<li><strong>IP Spoofing Prevention:</strong> Performs strict public vs. private IP checks on client headers (like HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR) to prevent attackers from spoofing their IP addresses when behind load balancers or proxies.</li>
</ul>
<p>For complete information, please visit our website <a href="https://fyndsoft.com/securefusion" rel="nofollow ugc">the SecureFusion website</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin bundles and/or utilizes the following third-party libraries:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Chart.js</strong> (v4.5.1)</p>
<ul>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>License URI: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/blob/master/LICENSE.md</li>
<li>Source: https://www.chartjs.org</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>persist-admin-notices-dismissal</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>License: GPLv3</li>
<li>Source: https://github.com/collizo4sky/persist-admin-notices-dismissal</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>wasp</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>License: GPLv3</li>
<li>Source: https://github.com/uuur86/wasp</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


SecureFusion – Security and Firewall by Fyndsoft

Lightweight, high-performance security suite. Protects from brute-force logins, DDoS pingbacks, bad request injections, and manages CSP headers.

Amin Nazemi

Neatma

<p>Protect your website from xmlrpc brute-force attacks,DOS and DDOS attacks, this plugin disables the XML-RPC and trackbacks-pingbacks on your WordPress website.</p>
<p><strong>PLUGIN FEATURES</strong><br />
(These are options you can enable or disable each one)</p>
<ul>
<li>Disable access to xmlrpc.php file using .httacess file </li>
<li>Automatically change htaccess file permission to read-only (0444)</li>
<li>Disable X-pingback to minimize CPU usage </li>
<li>Disable selected methods from XML-RPC</li>
<li>Remove pingback-ping link from header</li>
<li>Disable trackbacks and pingbacks to avoid spammers and hackers</li>
<li>Rename XML-RPC slug to whatever you want</li>
<li>Black list IPs for XML-RPC</li>
<li>White list IPs for XML-RPC</li>
<li>Some options to speed-up your wordpress website</li>
<li>Disable JSON REST API</li>
<li>Hide WordPress Version</li>
<li>Disable built-in WordPress file editor</li>
<li>Disable wlw manifest</li>
<li>And some other options</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What is XMLRPC</strong></p>
<p>XML-RPC, or XML Remote Procedure Call is a protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.<br />
Beginning in WordPress 3.5, XML-RPC is enabled by default. Additionally, the option to disable/enable XML-RPC was removed. For various reasons, site owners may wish to disable this functionality. This plugin provides an easy way to do so.</p>
<p><strong>Why you should disable XML-RPC</strong><br />
<em>Xmlrpc has two main weaknesses</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Brute force attacks:<br />
Attackers try to login to WordPress using xmlrpc.php with as many username/password combinations as they can enter. A method within xmlrpc.php allows the attacker to use a single command (system.multicall) to guess hundreds of passwords. Daniel Cid at Sucuri described it well in October 2015: “With only 3 or 4 HTTP requests, the attackers could try thousands of passwords, bypassing security tools that are designed to look and block brute force attempts.”</li>
<li>Denial of Service Attacks via Pingback:<br />
Back in 2013, attackers sent Pingback requests through xmlrpc.php of approximately 2500 WordPress sites to “herd (these sites) into a voluntary botnet,” according to Gur Schatz at Incapsula. “This gives any attacker a virtually limitless set of IP addresses to Distribute a Denial of Service attack across a network of over 100 million WordPress sites, without having to compromise them.”</li>
</ul>


Disable XML-RPC-API

The upgrade notice keeps coming back on every screen even after being dismissed. It looks very unprofessional to my clients and is embarrassing for me as a web developer, i would rather disable the plugin and use the code in a function. 

It should be permanently dismissible via a cookie, like for other plugins. It might be ok once, when the plugin is first installed or updated, but after that, it should never appear again. 

Good plugin, but upgrade nag is too annoying

A simple and lightweight plugin to disable XML-RPC API, X-Pingback and pingback-ping in WordPress 3.5+ for a faster and more secure website

SecureFusion – Security and Firewall by Fyndsoft vs Disable XML-RPC-API