Sajber Sove

<p>Secure Owl Firewall is a fast, lightweight firewall plugin with an advanced rule engine featuring PCRE pattern matching, a transformation pipeline, and JSON-based rule configuration.</p>
<p>Key features:</p>
<ul>
<li>JSON-based rules — 100+ default rules covering SQLi, XSS, RCE, LFI, SSRF, Log4Shell, and more.</li>
<li>Transformation pipeline — urlDecode, lowercase, normalizePath, removeWhitespace, htmlEntityDecode, trim.</li>
<li>Six inspection targets — REQUEST_URI, QUERY_STRING, USER_AGENT, REFERER, COOKIE, POST.</li>
<li>MU-Plugin loader — runs before any regular plugin for earliest protection.</li>
<li>Rate limiting — optional transient-based IP and subnet banning.</li>
<li>IP whitelist with CIDR/subnet support (IPv4 + IPv6).</li>
<li>Per-rule toggle — disable individual rules from the admin panel without editing files.</li>
<li>File-based logging — 24MB cap with auto-rotation, protected log storage.</li>
<li>Configurable log retention policy for GDPR compliance.</li>
<li>Anonymize user IP addresses, enhancing privacy and GDPR compliance.</li>
<li>Filterable — extensive filter hooks for customization.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Filter Hooks</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>sswaf_ip_whitelist</code> — array of IPs to bypass the firewall</li>
<li><code>sswaf_trusted_proxies</code> — array of trusted proxy IPs for X-Forwarded-For</li>
<li><code>sswaf_post_scanning</code> — enable POST data inspection (default: true)</li>
<li><code>sswaf_rules_file</code> — path to the rules JSON file</li>
<li><code>sswaf_log_file</code> — path to the log file</li>
<li><code>sswaf_log_max_size</code> — maximum log size in bytes</li>
<li><code>sswaf_header_status</code> — HTTP status header for blocked requests</li>
<li><code>sswaf_before_block</code> — action hook fired before blocking a request</li>
<li><code>sswaf_rate_limit_ip_threshold</code> — override IP hit threshold</li>
<li><code>sswaf_rate_limit_ip_duration</code> — override IP ban duration</li>
<li><code>sswaf_rate_limit_ip_window</code> — override IP counting window</li>
</ul>


Secure Owl Firewall

Secure Owl Firewall is a smart rule-based protection that blocks threats and secures your site from attacks.

Maikuolan

<p>CIDRAM (Classless Inter-Domain Routing Access Manager) is a PHP script designed to protect websites by blocking requests originating from IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic, including (but not limited to) traffic from non-human access endpoints, cloud services, spambots, scrapers, etc. It does this by calculating the possible CIDRs of the IP addresses supplied from inbound requests and then attempting to match these possible CIDRs against its signature files (these signature files contain lists of CIDRs of IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic); If matches are found, the requests are blocked.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP >= 7.2.0</li>
<li>PCRE</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updating</h3>
<p>Note: CIDRAM does not interact in any way with your database, and stores its own configuration settings, customisations, and related materials as flatfiles within its own directory. If you’ve not changed any of the default configuration settings and if you’re not using any customisations for this plugin, updating normally via the plugins dashboard, without need for any additional steps, should be sufficient and shouldn’t cause any problems. However, if you’ve modified the configuration settings for CIDRAM, or if you’ve made any customisations, I would recommend making backups of all of these prior to updating, due to that updating will overwrite all settings and customisations (after updating, you can then restore your customisations from your backups). Alternatively, if you update via the CIDRAM front-end updates page, all settings and customisations should be preserved.</p>


CIDRAM

CIDRAM: A PHP-level CIDR/IP-based firewall solution.

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