Andrew Norcross

Jason Coleman

<p>WP Bouncer restricts the number of simultaneous logins for the same WordPress user account. The plugin’s goal is to deter people from sharing their login credentials for your site, which is especially important for a paid membership, premium content, or eLearning site.</p>
<h3>How WP Bouncer Protects Shared User Logins</h3>
<ul>
<li>The plugin stores a random <code>FAKESESSID</code> for each user when they log in.</li>
<li>If a user is logged in, on each page load (init hook), WP Bouncer checks if the <code>FAKESESSID</code> stored in the user’s cookies is the same as the last login stored in a transient (<code>fakesessid_user_login</code>).</li>
<li>If the two values do no match, WP Bouncer logs the user out and redirects them to the WordPress login page or a custom page using the wp_bouncer_redirect_url filter.</li>
</ul>
<p>If the WP_BOUNCER_HEARTBEAT_CHECK is defined to true, JavaScript will be loaded to bounce users when a new user logs in with the same login. This is useful for sites with page caching.</p>
<p>Admininstrator accounts or any users with the “manage_options” capability are excluded from bounces.</p>
<h3>Or, Allow a Specific Number of Active Sessions</h3>
<p>By default, WP Bouncer only allows one session per user.</p>
<p>You can use this plugin to offer bulk memberships to corporate, education, or other group-type customers via a shared login.</p>
<p>Use the <code>wp_bouncer_number_simultaneous_logins</code> filter to allow a defined number of active “sessions”.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/limit-user-active-sessions/" rel="nofollow ugc">View the Recipe</a></p>
<h3>Example Use Cases for WP Bouncer</h3>
<ul>
<li>User A logs in as “user”. Their <code>FAKESESSID</code>, say “SESSION_A” is stored in a WordPress option.</li>
<li>User B logs in as “user”. Their <code>FAKESESSID</code>, say “SESSION_B” is overwrites the stored WordPress option.</li>
<li>User A tries to load a page on your site, WP Bouncer catches them and logs them out, redirecting them to the warning message.</li>
<li>User B can browse around the site as normal… unless…</li>
<li>User A logs in again as “user”. Their <code>FAKESESSID</code>, “SESSION_A_v2” is stored in the WordPress option.</li>
<li>Now user B would be logged out if they load another page.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hooks and Filters</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>wp_bouncer_ignore_admins</code> filter: if returning false even admins will be bounced.</li>
<li><code>wp_bouncer_redirect_url</code> filter: can be used to change the URL redirected to after being bounced.</li>
<li><code>wp_bouncer_number_simultaneous_logins</code> filter: can be set to limit logins to a number other than 1. 0 means unlimited logins.</li>
<li><code>wp_bouncer_login_flag</code>: runs right before bouncing (can be used to potentially stop the bouncing).</li>
<li><code>wp_bouncer_session_ids</code> hook: used to filter session ids when saving them. Passes $session_ids, $old_session_ids (before any were removed/bounced), and the current user’s ID as parameters.</li>
<li><code>wp_bouncer_session_length</code> hook: used to filter how long the session ids transients are set. This way, you can time the transients to expire at a specific time of day. Note that the transient is saved on every page load, so if you set it to 5 minutes, it’s going to push it out 5 minutes on every page load. You should try to set it to (the number of seconds until midnight) or something like that.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support the Plugin Authors</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin, please check out Jason’s work with <a href="https://www.strangerstudios.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Stranger Studios</a> and <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Paid Memberships Pro</a> and <a href="http://andrewnorcross.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrew’s work at his personal site</a>.</p>


WP Bouncer – Limit Simultaneous Logins

Deter members from sharing login credentials: restrict simultaneous logins for the same user.

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nintechnet

<h4>A true Web Application Firewall</h4>
<p>NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) is a true Web Application Firewall. Although it can be installed and configured just like a plugin, it is a stand-alone firewall that stands in front of WordPress.</p>
<p>It allows any blog administrator to benefit from very advanced and powerful security features that usually aren’t available at the WordPress level, but only in security applications such as the Apache <a href="http://www.modsecurity.org/" title="" rel="nofollow ugc">ModSecurity</a> module or the PHP <a href="http://suhosin.org/" title="" rel="nofollow ugc">Suhosin</a> extension.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>NinjaFirewall requires at least PHP 7.1, MySQLi extension and is only compatible with Unix-like OS (Linux, BSD). It is <strong>not compatible with Microsoft Windows</strong>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>NinjaFirewall can hook, scan, sanitise or reject any HTTP/HTTPS request sent to a PHP script before it reaches WordPress or any of its plugins. All scripts located inside the blog installation directories and sub-directories will be protected, including those that aren’t part of the WordPress package. Even encoded PHP scripts, hackers shell scripts and backdoors will be filtered by NinjaFirewall.</p>
<h4>Powerful filtering engine</h4>
<p>NinjaFirewall includes the most powerful filtering engine available in a WordPress plugin. Its most important feature is its ability to normalize and transform data from incoming HTTP requests which allows it to detect Web Application Firewall evasion techniques and obfuscation tactics used by hackers, as well as to support and decode a large set of encodings. See our blog for a full description: <a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/introduction-to-ninjafirewall-filtering-engine/" title="" rel="nofollow ugc">An introduction to NinjaFirewall filtering engine</a>.</p>
<h4>Fastest and most efficient brute-force attack protection for WordPress</h4>
<p>By processing incoming HTTP requests before your blog and any of its plugins, NinjaFirewall is the only plugin for WordPress able to protect it against very large brute-force attacks, including distributed attacks coming from several thousands of different IPs.</p>
<p>See our benchmarks and stress-tests: <a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/wordpress-brute-force-attack-detection-plugins-comparison-2015/" title="" rel="nofollow ugc">Brute-force attack detection plugins comparison</a></p>
<p>The protection applies to the <code>wp-login.php</code> script but can be extended to the <code>xmlrpc.php</code> one. The incident can also be written to the server <code>AUTH</code> log, which can be useful to the system administrator for monitoring purposes or banning IPs at the server level (e.g., Fail2ban).</p>
<h4>Real-time detection</h4>
<p><strong>File Guard</strong> real-time detection is a totally unique feature provided by NinjaFirewall: it can detect, in real-time, any access to a PHP file that was recently modified or created, and alert you about this. If a hacker uploaded a shell script to your site (or injected a backdoor into an already existing file) and tried to directly access that file using his browser or a script, NinjaFirewall would hook the HTTP request and immediately detect that the file was recently modified or created. It would send you an alert with all details (script name, IP, request, date and time).</p>
<h4>File integrity monitoring</h4>
<p><strong>File Check</strong> lets you perform file integrity monitoring by scanning your website hourly, twicedaily or daily. Any modification made to a file will be detected: file content, file permissions, file ownership, timestamp as well as file creation and deletion.</p>
<h4>Watch your website traffic in real time</h4>
<p><strong>Live Log</strong> lets you watch your website traffic in real time. It displays connections in a format similar to the one used by the <code>tail -f</code> Unix command. Because it communicates directly with the firewall, i.e., without loading WordPress, <strong>Live Log</strong> is fast, lightweight and it will not affect your server load, even if you set its refresh rate to the lowest value.</p>
<h4>Event Notifications</h4>
<p>NinjaFirewall can alert you by email on specific events triggered within your blog. Some of those alerts are enabled by default and it is highly recommended to keep them enabled. It is not unusual for a hacker, after breaking into your WordPress admin console, to install or just to upload a backdoored plugin or theme in order to take full control of your website. NinjaFirewall can also <a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall-wp-edition-adds-php-backtrace-to-email-notifications/" title="NinjaFirewall adds PHP backtrace to email notifications" rel="nofollow ugc">attach a PHP backtrace</a> to important notifications.</p>
<p>Monitored events:</p>
<ul>
<li>Administrator login.</li>
<li>Modification of any administrator account in the database.</li>
<li>Plugins upload, installation, (de)activation, update, deletion.</li>
<li>Themes upload, installation, activation, deletion.</li>
<li>WordPress update.</li>
<li>Pending security update in your plugins and themes.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Stay protected against the latest WordPress security vulnerabilities</h4>
<p>To get the most efficient protection, NinjaFirewall can automatically update its security rules daily, twice daily or even hourly. Each time a new vulnerability is found in WordPress or one of its plugins/themes, a new set of security rules will be made available to protect your blog immediately.</p>
<h4>Strong Privacy</h4>
<p>Unlike a Cloud Web Application Firewall, or Cloud WAF, NinjaFirewall works and filters the traffic on your own server and infrastructure. That means that your sensitive data (contact form messages, customers credit card number, login credentials etc) remains on your server and is not routed through a third-party company’s servers, which could pose unnecessary risks (e.g., decryption of your HTTPS traffic in order to inspect it, employees accessing your data or logs in plain text, theft of private information, man-in-the-middle attack etc).</p>
<p>Your website can run NinjaFirewall and be <strong>compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)</strong>. <a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall-general-data-protection-regulation-compliance/" title="GDPR Compliance" rel="nofollow ugc">See our blog for more details</a>.</p>
<h4>IPv6 compatibility</h4>
<p>IPv6 compatibility is a mandatory feature for a security plugin: if it supports only IPv4, hackers can easily bypass the plugin by using an IPv6. NinjaFirewall natively supports IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, for both public and private addresses.</p>
<h4>Multi-site support</h4>
<p>NinjaFirewall is multi-site compatible. It will protect all sites from your network and its configuration interface will be accessible only to the Super Admin from the network main site.</p>
<h4>Possibility to prepend your own PHP code to the firewall</h4>
<p>You can prepend your own PHP code to the firewall with the help of an <a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall-wp-edition-the-htninja-configuration-file/" rel="nofollow ugc">optional distributed configuration file</a>. It will be processed before WordPress and all its plugins are loaded. This is a very powerful feature, and there is almost no limit to what you can do: add your own security rules, manipulate HTTP requests, variables etc.</p>
<h4>Low Footprint Firewall</h4>
<p>NinjaFirewall is very fast, optimised, compact, and requires very low system resource.<br />
See for yourself: download and install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-profiler/" title="" rel="ugc">Code Profiler</a> plugin and compare NinjaFirewall’s performance with other security plugins.</p>
<h4>Non-Intrusive User Interface</h4>
<p>NinjaFirewall looks and feels like a built-in WordPress feature. It does not contain intrusive banners, warnings or flashy colors. It uses the WordPress simple and clean interface and is also smartphone-friendly.</p>
<h4>Contextual Help</h4>
<p>Each NinjaFirewall menu page has a contextual help screen with useful information about how to use and configure it.<br />
If you need help, click on the <em>Help</em> menu tab located in the upper right corner of each page in your admin panel.</p>
<h4>Need more security ?</h4>
<p>Check out our new supercharged edition: <a href="https://nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall/wp-edition/" title="NinjaFirewall WP+ Edition" rel="nofollow ugc">NinjaFirewall WP+ Edition</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Unix shared memory use for inter-process communication and blazing fast performances.</li>
<li>IP-based Access Control.</li>
<li>Role-based Access Control.</li>
<li>Country-based Access Control via geolocation.</li>
<li>URL-based Access Control.</li>
<li>Bot-based Access Control.</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/centralized-logging-with-ninjafirewall/" title="Centralized Logging" rel="nofollow ugc">Centralized Logging</a>.</li>
<li>Antispam for comment and user regisration forms.</li>
<li>Rate limiting option to block aggressive bots, crawlers, web scrapers and HTTP attacks.</li>
<li>Response body filter to scan the output of the HTML page right before it is sent to your visitors browser.</li>
<li>Better File uploads management.</li>
<li>Better logs management.</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.nintechnet.com/syslog-logging-with-ninjafirewall/" title="Syslog logging" rel="nofollow ugc">Syslog logging</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall/wp-edition/" title="" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a> about the WP+ Edition unique features. <a href="https://nintechnet.com/ninjafirewall/wp-edition/?comparison" title="" rel="nofollow ugc">Compare</a> the WP and WP+ Editions.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.9+</li>
<li>Admin/Superadmin with <code>manage_options</code> + <code>unfiltered_html capabilities</code>.</li>
<li>PHP 7.1+</li>
<li>MySQL or MariaDB with MySQLi extension</li>
<li>Apache / Nginx / LiteSpeed / Openlitespeed compatible</li>
<li>Unix-like operating systems only (Linux, BSD etc). NinjaFirewall is <strong>NOT</strong> compatible with Microsoft Windows.</li>
</ul>


NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) – Advanced Security Plugin and Firewall

A true Web Application Firewall to protect and secure WordPress.

WP Bouncer – Limit Simultaneous Logins vs NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) – Advanced Security Plugin and Firewall