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<p>Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools focuses on practical security hygiene for WordPress administrators.</p>
<p>The free plugin provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>on-demand security scans</li>
<li>risk summaries grouped by severity and category</li>
<li>checks for common WordPress hardening gaps</li>
<li>checks for exposed root-level artifacts such as <code>.env</code>, SQL dumps, <code>phpinfo</code> files, and backup archives</li>
<li>a quarantine vault for operator-reviewed file isolation</li>
<li>uploads PHP execution blocking on supported server environments</li>
<li>manual guidance when automatic server hardening is not safely supported</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is positioned as an auditing and hardening tool. It helps surface risk and apply selected preventive controls, but it does not promise malware removal, incident response, or complete server protection.</p>
<h4>Included checks</h4>
<p>The scan currently looks for items such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>PHP error display exposure</li>
<li><code>WP_DEBUG</code> and <code>debug.log</code> exposure</li>
<li>XML-RPC availability</li>
<li>author and REST user enumeration exposure</li>
<li>theme/plugin file editor availability</li>
<li>WordPress generator meta output</li>
<li>comments enabled by default</li>
<li>uploads PHP execution hardening status</li>
<li>root-level sensitive files and archives</li>
</ul>
<h4>Server-aware behavior</h4>
<p>This plugin only auto-applies server config changes where it can do so in a scoped and reversible way.</p>
<ul>
<li>Apache and LiteSpeed: uploads PHP blocking is managed through a Steel Security-marked <code>.htaccess</code> block</li>
<li>IIS: uploads PHP blocking is managed through a Steel Security-marked <code>web.config</code> section</li>
<li>Nginx and unsupported environments: Steel Security provides manual guidance instead of claiming automatic protection</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro companion</h4>
<p>This plugin can work with a separate Pro companion plugin that adds features such as scheduled scans, scan history, reports, and managed server-level controls such as directory listing protection and baseline security headers. The free plugin remains usable on its own.</p>


Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools

High-signal WordPress security auditing and hardening with practical site audit tools for administrators.

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<p>Anonindo Security Advisor helps site owners understand and improve their WordPress security posture without acting like a full firewall suite.</p>
<p>The plugin follows a simple workflow:</p>
<ul>
<li>Scan for common WordPress security issues and misconfigurations</li>
<li>Explain what each issue means in beginner-friendly language</li>
<li>Show practical guidance and safer best practices</li>
<li>Offer safe auto-fix actions for selected hardening steps</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is designed to be lightweight, educational, and operationally safe.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Detects debug mode enabled in production</li>
<li>Detects dashboard file editing enabled</li>
<li>Detects XML-RPC exposure</li>
<li>Detects weak file permissions on common paths</li>
<li>Detects potentially exposed <code>wp-config.php</code> backup patterns</li>
<li>Detects outdated plugins and themes</li>
<li>Detects suspicious administrator account patterns</li>
<li>Detects REST API user enumeration exposure</li>
<li>Heuristically scans active theme and plugin PHP files for basic SQL injection and XSS risk patterns</li>
<li>Scans selected database content for suspicious script-like patterns</li>
<li>Provides a security score and prioritized recommendations</li>
<li>Includes an activity log for meaningful security-related site events</li>
<li>Supports safe auto-fixes for selected hardening improvements</li>
</ul>


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