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Plugin Description
Acunetix WP Security plugin is a free and comprehensive security tool that helps you secure your WordPress
installation and suggests corrective measures for: securing file permissions, security of the database, version hiding,
WordPress admin protection and lots more.
Acunetix WP Security checks your WordPress website/blog for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions such as:
- Passwords
- File permissions
- Database security
- Version hiding
- WordPress admin protection/security
- Removes WP Generator META tag from core code
Requirements
- WordPress version 3.0 and higher
- PHP5 (tested with PHP Interpreter >= 5.2.9)
Key security features:
- MultiSite ready
- Easy backup of WordPress database for disaster recovery
- Removal of error-information on login-page
- Addition of index.php to the wp-content, wp-content/plugins, wp-content/themes and wp-content/uploads directories to prevent directory listings
- Removal of wp-version, except in admin-area
- Removal of Really Simple Discovery meta tag
- Removal of Windows Live Writer meta tag
- Removal of core update information for non-admins
- Removal of plugin-update information for non-admins
- Removal of theme-update information for non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher)
- Hiding of wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins
- Removal of version in URLs from scripts and stylesheets only on frontend
- Reporting of security overview after WordPress blog is scanned
- Reporting of file permissions following security checks
- Live traffic tool to monitor your website activity in real time
- Integrated tool to change the database prefix
- Disabling of database error reporting (if enabled)
- Disabling of PHP error reporting
For more information on the Acunetix WP Security plug-in and other WordPress security news, visit the
Acunetix Blog and join
our Facebook page. Post any questions or feedback
on the Acunetix WP Security plug-in forum.
WordPress Security
Security Scanner:
- Scans WordPress installation for file/directory permissions vulnerabilites
- Recommends corrective actions
- Scans for general security vulnerabilities= License =
Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.
For more information on the Acunetix WP Security plug-in and other WordPress security news, visit the
Acunetix Blog and join
our Facebook page. Post any questions or feedback
on the Acunetix WP Security plug-in forum.
Screenshots
The File Scan Report
The Settings page, displaying all configurable options
The Live Traffic page
The new Dashboard page
The new Scan Page
