VulnDex

<p><strong>Stay ahead of vulnerabilities.</strong><br />
VulnDex Beacon keeps your WordPress security intelligence fresh by securely syncing technical details with your VulnDex account — giving you full visibility into outdated or vulnerable components.</p>
<p>VulnDex is a European-made platform for <strong>Vulnerability Intelligence & Management</strong>, designed to help organizations track, prioritize, and mitigate security issues before they escalate.</p>
<p>✨ <strong>Key Features</strong><br />
– 🔄 Automatic sync of WordPress core, plugins, and themes<br />
– 🕒 Scheduled reports every two hours<br />
– 🔐 Secure communication via HTTPS<br />
– 💡 Instant insight into vulnerable components<br />
– 🧩 Lightweight, transparent, and maintenance-free</p>
<p>No heavy scanners. No bloat. Just smart automation.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Your privacy matters.<br />
This plugin transmits <strong>only non-personal, technical information</strong> required for vulnerability tracking:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress core version</li>
<li>Installed plugins (name, version, active status)</li>
<li>Installed themes (name, version, active status)</li>
<li>PHP version</li>
<li>Site URL and home URL</li>
<li>OS information (name, version)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> Users must explicitly enter an API key in the settings to enable data transmission. No data is sent without this configuration.</p>
<p>No user data, posts, or content are ever sent.<br />
All communication occurs securely via HTTPS.</p>
<p>For details, see the <a href="https://vulndex.at/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">VulnDex Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is open-source software, released under the <strong>GPLv2 or later</strong> license.<br />
You’re free to modify, redistribute, or extend it — as long as the same license terms are respected.</p>
<p>🧠 Developed by <a href="https://vulndex.at" rel="nofollow ugc">VulnDex</a> – Vulnerability Management. Streamlined for Teams.<br />
Made in Austria 🇦🇹</p>


VulnDex Beacon

🛰️ Automatically sync your WordPress versions, plugins, and themes with VulnDex for continuous vulnerability insights.

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<p><strong>Please note:</strong> This plugin is no longer actively supported for non-enterprise customers. <strong>We recommend using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack-protect/" rel="ugc">Jetpack Protect</a></strong> – a free security plugin for WordPress that leverages the extensive database of WPScan. Jetpack Protect scans your site and warns you about vulnerabilities, keeping your site one step ahead of security threats and malware.</p>
<p>The WPScan WordPress security plugin is unique in that it uses its own manually curated <a href="https://wpscan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan WordPress Vulnerability Database</a>. The vulnerability database has been around since 2014 and is updated on a daily basis by dedicated WordPress security specialists and the community at large. The database includes more than 21,000 known security vulnerabilities. The plugin uses this database to scan for <a href="https://wpscan.com/wordpresses" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress vulnerabilities</a>, <a href="https://wpscan.com/plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin vulnerabilities</a> and <a href="https://wpscan.com/themes" rel="nofollow ugc">theme vulnerabilities</a>, and has the options to schedule automated daily scans and to send email notifications.</p>
<p>WPScan has a Free API plan that should be suitable for most WordPress websites, however, also has paid plans for users who may need more API calls. To use the WPScan WordPress Security Plugin you will need to use a free API token by <a href="https://wpscan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">registering here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The Free plan allows 25 API requests per day. View the different available <a href="https://wpscan.com/api" rel="nofollow ugc">API plans</a>.</strong></p>
<h4>How many API requests do you need?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Our WordPress scanner makes one API request for the WordPress version, one request per installed plugin and one request per installed theme.</li>
<li>On average, a WordPress website has 22 installed plugins.</li>
<li>The Free plan should cover around 50% of all WordPress websites.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security Checks</h4>
<p>The WPScan WordPress Security Plugin will also check for other security issues, which do not require an API token, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Check for debug.log files</li>
<li>Check for wp-config.php backup files</li>
<li>Check if XML-RPC is enabled</li>
<li>Check for code repository files</li>
<li>Check if default secret keys are used</li>
<li>Check for exported database files</li>
<li>Weak passwords</li>
<li>HTTPS enabled</li>
</ul>
<h4>What does the plugin do?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Scans for known WordPress vulnerabilities, plugin vulnerabilities and theme vulnerabilities;</li>
<li>Does additional security checks;</li>
<li>Shows an icon on the Admin Toolbar with the total number of security vulnerabilities found;</li>
<li>Notifies you by mail when new security vulnerabilities are found.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpscan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan WordPress Vulnerability Database</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan WordPress Security Scanner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/_wpscan_" rel="nofollow ugc">WPScan Twitter</a></li>
</ul>


WPScan – WordPress Security Scanner

One of the Must-have security plugin for WordPress Websites. Most importantly baked by Wp Scan Team, Which is in field from way too long and helping community to be safe like a pro. 

They have helped us with their deep knowledge of WordPress Security in one of our products. Their whole intention is to use their security experience to help WordPress Community to be safe. We highly recommended this plugin and whole team for any thing related to security.

Great Minds Made Great Plugin


complete garbage now, used to be amazing now they basically force you to use jetpack.  No replies trying to get enterprise license, another great product (used to be) that automattic has killed and used just for leads to jetpack


Garbage now

WPScan WordPress Security Scanner - Scans your system for security vulnerabilities listed in the WPScan Vulnerability Database.

VulnDex Beacon vs WPScan – WordPress Security Scanner