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<p>The thread of hackers is becoming a bigger concern every day. As tools get smarter and faster, it has become much easier for websites to get hacked. Often the hack can be performed by an automated tool if it discovers that your site has some pretty simple vulnerabilities. Quite often people don’t know of these security back doors or may have overlooked something that seems insignificant, but can actually be a back door into your system.</p>
<p>This plugin will perform a scan of your WordPress site along with the settings and configurations available to the underlying code to check for any vulnerabilities in your webserver. If an issue is detected the plugin will advise you the best course of action to take in order to resolve the issue.</p>


System Vulnerability Scanner

Can be difficult to remember everything, even when you know what needs to be done. Handy to have this explain it all.

Valuable for setting up new servers

This plugin will scan your Wordpress site in order to check if there are settings and configurations with your web server, PHP or with wordpress that  …

Cornelius Bergen

<p>Gauntlet Security can find opportunities for improving the security of your site. It checks many aspects of the site’s configuration including file permissions, server software, PHP, database, plugins, themes, and user accounts. The plugin will give each check a pass, warning, or fail and explain in clear language how you can fix the issue.</p>
<p>How you ultimately choose to patch these issues is up to you but whatever method you use, this plugin should always provide an accurate report. It does not make changes to your database or to any of your files and it should be compatible with all other security plugins.</p>
<p>Checks and recommendations include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Set correct file and directory permissions</li>
<li>Turn off directory indexing</li>
<li>Prevent code execution in the uploads directory</li>
<li>Block files in the includes directory</li>
<li>Prevent access to stray files which could be useful to attackers</li>
<li>Keep PHP up-to-date</li>
<li>Disable dangerous PHP functions</li>
<li>Disable allow_url_include and allow_url_fopen PHP flags</li>
<li>Turn off the display of PHP errors</li>
<li>Don’t advertise the PHP version you are running</li>
<li>Use a strong database password</li>
<li>Change the default database table prefix</li>
<li>Keep WordPress up-to-date</li>
<li>Turn off file editing in the control panel</li>
<li>Set security keys in WP-Config file</li>
<li>Don’t advertise the WordPress version you are running</li>
<li>Turn off self-registration</li>
<li>Force SSL when accessing the admin area</li>
<li>Review the development activity and reputation of all plugins</li>
<li>Remove unused themes from the server</li>
<li>Rename the plugin directory</li>
<li>Move the active theme to an alternate location</li>
<li>Do not use TimThumb</li>
<li>Do not use common user names (such as “admin”)</li>
<li>Do not use weak passwords</li>
<li>Do not have a user with an ID = 1</li>
<li>Minimize the number of admin users</li>
<li>Users should not display their login usernames publicly</li>
<li>Prevent username enumeration through standard author URLs</li>
<li>…more tests planned</li>
</ul>
<p>Check the <a href="screenshots" rel="nofollow ugc">screenshots</a> for more detail on some of the above features.</p>
<p>Many of these security checks are based on recommendations from the WordPress codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress.</p>
<h4>Disclaimer</h4>
<p>Some of the tips included in this plugin only require making small changes to configuration files (.htaccess, php.ini, wp-config.php, functions.php). Others require more in-depth changes to the filesystem or database. Before attempting any of these fixes, you should be comfortable experimenting and know how to undo any change you make. That includes making backups and knowing how restore your site from those backups. I can’t guarantee that the recommendations or sample code provided in this plugin will not break your site or that they will prevent it from being hacked.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Apache web server</li>
<li>WordPress 3.4 minimum</li>
<li>PHP 5.2.7 minimum</li>
</ul>


Gauntlet Security

Performs a detailed security analysis of your WordPress installation. Provides specific instructions on how to make your site more secure.

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