sweetwatermedia

Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools focuses on practical security hygiene for WordPress administrators.
The free plugin provides:
<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>
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.
<h4>Included checks</h4>
The scan currently looks for items such as:
<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>
This plugin only auto-applies server config changes where it can do so in a scoped and reversible way.
<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>
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.

Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools

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

dessky

Dessky Security is the ultralight plugin for basic Security Hardening. It is specially designed not to drain any resources from your website. Once you enable all major security measures your input is no longer required. Features include upload directory restriction, disabling of plugin/theme editor, admin username check and more.
This plugin was developed by <a href="https://dessky.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dessky Team</a>.
Dessky Team does not provide support for the Dessky Security on the WordPress.org forums. In order to get support or make a suggestion from a Dessky Team you will have to Join Our Open Community and <a href="https://discuss.dessky.org/t/dessky-security" rel="nofollow ugc">Start a Discussion</a>.
<a href="https://discuss.dessky.org/t/dessky-security" rel="nofollow ugc">DISCUSS WITH THE DESSKY TEAM</a>
<a href="https://discuss.dessky.org/t/dessky-security" rel="nofollow ugc">JOIN OUR OPEN COMMUNITY</a>: The purpose of this open community is to have a collective place where the community can help each other, and we can get some feedback to improve Dessky Security as well. Joining the community is also a great way to connect with like-minded people and share your experience.
You can also <a href="https://dessky.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">GET THE PREMIUM SUPPORT</a>
<a href="https://dessky.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">User Documentation</a>: Although Dessky Security is already easy to set up, we’ve put together tutorials, guides, and some knowledge bases to help you set up and get started with it.
I have further questions, how do I contact you?
Please fill up the <a href="https://dessky.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact form</a> and we would be more than happy to assist.
Credits: Dessky Security is based on the ‘Sucuri WordPress Security’ plugin developed by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ddsucurinet/" rel="nofollow ugc">Daniel Cid</a>.

Dessky Security

Dessky Security is the ultralight plugin for basic Security Hardening. It is specially designed not to drain any resources from your website.

Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools vs Dessky Security