sweetwatermedia

<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.

metadas

<p>Metadas Version Removal is a fast, minimal, production ready plugin that strips WordPress version information from all common output locations. This helps reduce fingerprinting, hardens your site against automated scanners, and keeps your HTML clean.</p>
<p>There is <strong>no admin interface</strong> and <strong>no configuration required</strong>. Activate the plugin and it immediately removes:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress generator meta tag</li>
<li>Version query strings from scripts and styles</li>
<li>REST API discovery links</li>
<li>oEmbed discovery links</li>
<li>RSS generator tags</li>
<li>Shortlink tags</li>
<li>RSD (Really Simple Discovery) link</li>
<li>Windows Live Writer manifest</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is intentionally small, efficient, and dependency free. It uses only core WordPress hooks and does not write to the database.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Removes all WordPress version output</li>
<li>Zero configuration activate and you’re done</li>
<li>Lightweight class based architecture</li>
<li>No database usage</li>
<li>No UI, no clutter</li>
<li>Safe for caching and CDN setups</li>
<li>Compatible with all themes and plugins</li>
</ul>


Metadas Version Removal

A lightweight, zero configuration plugin that removes all WordPress version output from your site for improved security and cleaner markup.

Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools vs Metadas Version Removal