Jan 19

Stop Hackers With Our WordPress Firewall Plugin v1.2

Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Jan. 19th, 2009. 7 comments — voice your opinion.

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Getting hacked is a total bummer, right? Right. But you can stop it with this plugin — WordPress Firewall. It won't stop every determined hacker from zapping your blog — but it's definitely worth installing if you're maintaining more than a few blogs.

After all, you simply can't upgrade every blog instantly every time a vulnerability is published for WordPress or any of the plugins you've got installed. So this plugin might buy you some much-needed time … and sanity.

It investigates web requests with simple WordPress-specific heuristics to identify and stop most obvious attacks.

Here is the basic feature list —

0. Blocks most common attacks by default for WordPress and all of your installed plugins.
1. Emails are sent to a configured email address. They look like this —

wordpress firewall email alert

2. Lets you whitelist your IP.
3. Lets you whitelist a page, a variable in a page, or a variable on every page. It's pre-configured with some rules that stop it from misbehaving in places where bad-looking data could be found — and vulnerabilities are unlikely to be lurking — comment bodies, post bodies, etc.

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Marc

I have been hacked on wordpress several times, so if this can even prevent one from happening I will freakin dance a jig.

I will start testing asap…

Dan Kramer

I have been using this for the past week or so and it has stopped MANY attacks of various different kinds. I especially appreciate the email notification feature which gives you an idea of how popular your blog is with hackers. Thanks for the excellent tool, Jaimie!

Aussie Rod

Now I know why I code my site by hand still.

Ford Fusion Hybrid

Just tried this out and I am amazed how many time people try to hack my blogs! Hackers seem to be mostly in Russia and China…interesting tool.

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