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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>

Secure HTTP Headers

Secure HTTP headers - Essential, and easy.

Abhishek Sinha

Abhishek Site Cleanup Controls gives developers and site owners fine-grained control over 35+ WordPress features that are often unnecessary. Each feature has a simple on/off toggle, organised into five logical groups inside Settings -> Site Cleanup Controls.
No features are enabled by default — activate only what you need.
<h4>Security</h4>
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<li>User Enumeration — Block ?author=N redirect attacks that expose usernames.</li>
<li>Author Archives — Return 404 for author archive pages.</li>
<li>XML-RPC + Pingback — Fully disable the XML-RPC endpoint and remove the X-Pingback header.</li>
<li>Plugin and Theme Editor — Set DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT to prevent in-admin file editing.</li>
<li>Application Passwords — Disable the Application Passwords feature.</li>
<li>REST API — Restrict REST API access to authenticated users only.</li>
<li>Right Click — Disable the browser context menu on the frontend.</li>
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<h4>Performance</h4>
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<li>Emojis — Remove all emoji scripts, styles, and DNS prefetch hints.</li>
<li>Embed Objects — Disable WordPress oEmbed and embed scripts.</li>
<li>Dashicons — Prevent Dashicons from loading for non-logged-in visitors.</li>
<li>Heartbeat — Deregister the Heartbeat API script.</li>
<li>Block Library CSS — Remove wp-block-library and global-styles stylesheets on the frontend.</li>
<li>Version Var (?ver=) — Strip ?ver= query strings from enqueued asset URLs.</li>
<li>PDF Thumbnails — Skip thumbnail generation for uploaded PDF files.</li>
<li>oEmbed — Remove oEmbed discovery links and disable autoembed.</li>
<li>Remote Block Patterns — Stop WordPress fetching patterns from api.wordpress.org.</li>
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<h4>Head Cleanup</h4>
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<li>Generator Meta Tag — Remove the WordPress version meta tag from head.</li>
<li>WLW Manifest — Remove the Windows Live Writer manifest link.</li>
<li>Really Simple Discovery (RSD) — Remove the RSD link tag.</li>
<li>Short Link — Remove the shortlink tag and HTTP header.</li>
<li>Adjacent Posts Links — Remove prev/next link tags from single post heads.</li>
<li>RSS Feeds — Redirect all feed URLs to the homepage.</li>
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<h4>Admin Cleanup</h4>
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<li>capital_P_dangit — Remove WordPress forced capitalisation filter.</li>
<li>Screen Options and Help Tabs — Hide Screen Options and Help dropdowns.</li>
<li>Howdy to Welcome — Replace “Howdy,” with “Welcome,” in the admin bar.</li>
<li>Navigation Items in Admin Bar — Remove WP logo, site name, updates, and comments.</li>
<li>Clean Dashboard — Remove all default dashboard widgets.</li>
<li>Privacy Tools — Hide Export/Erase Personal Data from the Tools menu.</li>
<li>Site Health Page — Hide Site Health from the Tools menu.</li>
<li>WP Login Logo and Favicon — Hide the WordPress logo on the login page.</li>
<li>Admin Email Verification Prompt — Disable the admin email confirm interstitial.</li>
<li>Empty Trash (1 week) — Shorten automatic trash-emptying from 30 days to 7 days.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Content</h4>
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<li>Comments — Disable comments sitewide.</li>
<li>Post Revisions — Disable revision storage.</li>
<li>Search — Redirect all search queries to the homepage.</li>
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<h4>WordPress Features</h4>
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<li>Thumbnails / Featured Images — Remove post thumbnail support.</li>
<li>Widgets — Disable all widgets and sidebars.</li>
<li>Navigation Menus — Remove nav menu theme support.</li>
<li>Tags — Unregister tags from posts.</li>
<li>Categories — Unregister categories from posts.</li>
<li>Post Formats — Remove post format theme support.</li>
<li>Custom Fields — Remove custom fields meta box from editor.</li>
<li>Excerpts — Remove excerpt support from posts and pages.</li>
<li>Trackbacks — Remove trackback support from posts.</li>
<li>Attachment Pages — Redirect attachment URLs to the file directly.</li>
<li>Automatic Updates — Disable automatic core, plugin, and theme updates.</li>
<li>Self Pings — Stop WordPress pinging your own site.</li>
<li>jQuery Migrate — Remove jQuery Migrate script on the frontend.</li>
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Abhishek Site Cleanup Controls

Selectively disable WordPress features to improve performance, security, and cleanliness. Toggle each feature individually from a single settings page …

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