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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.

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Pura Vida Vulnerability Scanner checks everything installed on your site, including plugins, themes and WordPress core, against the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability database, audits your site’s security posture, and shows you exactly what is at risk and how to fix it.
It does not invent findings. It correlates your installed software and configuration against authoritative public sources (Wordfence Intelligence, CVE/MITRE, the WordPress.org update channel) and live checks of your own server.
Security overview
The dashboard opens with an at-a-glance status table covering:
<ul>
<li>WordPress Version: OK / Warning</li>
<li>Vulnerable Plugins: OK / Critical / High / Medium</li>
<li>Missing Headers: Present / Missing / N/A (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy)</li>
<li>SSL: Valid / Expiring soon / Expired / N/A (certificate expiry)</li>
<li>DNS: OK / Issues / N/A</li>
<li>Email Security: SPF and DMARC (DKIM is selector-specific)</li>
<li>CDN/WAF: Detected / Not detected / N/A</li>
</ul>
What it does
<ul>
<li>Inventories every installed plugin, theme and the WordPress core version.</li>
<li>Matches each item and version against a continuously updated vulnerability feed.</li>
<li>Shows severity (CVSS), the CVE identifier, a description and the recommended fix for every finding.</li>
<li>Audits your configuration and lists prioritized hardening recommendations (2FA, updates, HTTPS, file editor, and more).</li>
<li>Optional scheduled scans with email alerts when new critical/high issues appear.</li>
</ul>
Data sources
<ul>
<li>Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Data Feed: free for personal and commercial use; includes CVE (MITRE) and CVSS information.</li>
<li>CVE (MITRE Corporation): the canonical vulnerability identifiers.</li>
<li>WordPress.org update channel: available core, plugin and theme updates.</li>
<li>Live site checks performed by the plugin: HTTP headers, SSL, DNS, SPF/DMARC and CDN/WAF.</li>
</ul>
This product includes data that may be copyrighted by Defiant Inc. (Wordfence Intelligence) and by the MITRE Corporation (CVE®); their notices are displayed alongside the relevant findings.
Developed by Pura Vida Design Studio, Open Source Security & Website Tools (https://puravidadesignstudio.com/).
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to one external service to function: the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Data Feed.
Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Data Feed (Defiant Inc.) 
This plugin downloads the public WordPress vulnerability database from Wordfence in order to match it against the plugins, themes and core version installed on your site.
<ul>
<li>What is sent: your Wordfence Intelligence API key (in the request Authorization header) and your site’s URL (in the request User-Agent header), sent to https://www.wordfence.com/. The list of plugins and themes installed on your site is NOT transmitted; matching is performed locally on your own server.</li>
<li>When it is sent: when you run a manual scan, and when a scheduled scan runs (about once per day). The downloaded database is cached locally for 24 hours so the service is contacted at most about once per day.</li>
<li>Service terms: https://www.wordfence.com/wordfence-intelligence-terms-and-conditions/</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
The plugin also performs read-only checks against your own site for the Security Overview: a loopback HTTP request to your own home URL (to inspect response headers and detect a CDN/WAF) and DNS lookups for your own domain (to check DNS resolution and SPF/DMARC records). These query your own domain and public DNS only; no data is sent to any third party.

Pura Vida Vulnerability Scanner

Scan your plugins, themes and WordPress core against trusted vulnerability databases and get a clear, prioritized security overview.

Steel Security & Hardening – Site Audit Tools vs Pura Vida Vulnerability Scanner