dano1066

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.
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.

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  …

Storm Rockwell

This plugin automatically checks installed plugins for known vulnerabilities utilizing WPScan’s API and provides optional email alerts.
Features:
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<li>Automatic vulnerability detection in plugins utilizing WPScan’s API</li>
<li>Optional email alerts</li>
<li>Utilizes WP Cron to check for new security updates twice a day</li>
<li>Cached API results to decrease backend load time significantly</li>
</ul>

Vulnerable Plugin Checker

Instantly works after activation, I didn't have to do anything else to set it up. Apparently my Visual Composer was vulnerable, wouldn't have found out otherwise.



Great stuff

I can say it has made me feel safer when hosting sites. I get alerted before a hack takes place as I have dealt with hacked sites for far too long. I haven't dealt with a hacked site running my plugin. Plugin vulnerabilities are the easiest way for a hacker to get into your site/server.

I love my plugin

Automatically checks installed plugins for known vulnerabilities and provides optional email alerts.

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