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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.

Malcure Web Security

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Malware Intercept

<h3>Malcure Security</h3>
<p>★★★★★</p>
<p>Protect your WordPress site from hacks and downtime.</p>
<p>Malcure Security Suite is a fast, lightweight, cloud-connected security platform for WordPress. It performs deep server-side scans (files + database) to catch malware and unauthorized changes, allows you to monitor login activity, enables a site-wide forced re-login after incidents, and sends email alerts of incidents upon scan. Built for commercial workloads—WooCommerce stores, memberships, LMS, bookings, directories, and multi-vendor marketplaces—it plays nicely with caching/CDNs and won’t get in the way of checkout, lessons, or bookings.</p>
<h3>What Malcure Security Suite Focuses On</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Detect:</strong> Deep server-side malware scans (files + database), integrity/diff checks, and vulnerabilities.</li>
<li><strong>Control:</strong> Session analytics (user/IP/device), Emergency Logout (everyone except you), rotate auth keys & salts to invalidate tokens, and force site-wide re-login post-incident. Compatible with 2FA/SSO.</li>
<li><strong>Report:</strong> Clear, actionable summaries with exact file paths and reasons, email alerts with next steps, and audit-friendly logs for teams and compliance (coming-soon).</li>
<li><strong>Logging:</strong> Event logs with identifiable and traceable details.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works (SaaS)</h3>
<ol>
<li>Secure Handshake: Your site authenticates with Malcure and pulls fresh threat intelligence (signatures, heuristics, rules and analysis).</li>
<li>Local-first scanning: Scans your files and database in the background.</li>
<li>Severity-ranked results: Findings are grouped by Critical/High/Medium/Low with exact specs, the reason they were flagged, and one-click actions plus email alerts and audit-ready logs.</li>
<li>Graceful: If the cloud is temporarily unreachable, Malcure Security Suite continues with last-known rules and logs locally until it reconnects.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Deep server-side malware scans (files + database) using tuned signatures + heuristics.</li>
<li>Background scanning so long runs finish reliably on large sites.</li>
<li>Low overhead by design; preserves Core Web Vitals and optimized to minimize impact on site speed</li>
<li>Session management: see who’s logged in, from where.</li>
<li>Emergency Logout: one-click sign-out (everyone except you); rotate auth keys & salts to invalidate sessions.</li>
<li>Robust Event Monitor.</li>
<li>Optimal Dark Mode.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Highlights</h3>
<ul>
<li>Signature + heuristic detection for obfuscated/injected PHP/JS (backdoor/web-shell traits).</li>
<li>Database scan of options, postmeta, posts, and comments for malicious payloads.</li>
<li>Email notifications for critical events and scan results</li>
<li>Security status panel (permissions, environment)</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce, LearnDash/TutorLMS, MemberPress/PMP, major booking/event plugins, WPML/Polylang, Elementor/Divi/Block Editor, and caching/CDNs (LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, NGINX FastCGI, Cloudflare).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium (Pro)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scheduled scans (daily/weekly/monthly) with summary emails.</li>
<li>WP-CLI automation for headless/CI workflows and cron.</li>
<li>Priority support with accelerated SLAs.</li>
</ul>


Malcure Security Suite

🔐 All-in-one WordPress security: malware scanner (files+DB), force re-login, force logout, control logins, email-alerts. Cloud-based, light & fast.

Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools vs Malcure Security Suite