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WebsiteDefender WordPress Security

Helps you secure your WordPress installation and provides detailed reporting on discovered vulnerabilities and how to fix them.

v0.6

  • New feature: Added 'nonce' fields to forms where needed (thanks to julio from boiteaweb.fr)
  • New feature: Added tooltips to the most important sections of the System Information box
  • Update: Plugin settings are now accessible only by WordPress administrators
  • Update: Text and hyperlink UI updates
  • Update: Updated validation for plug-in form fields (email address, user name, target id, etc.)
  • Update: Enhanced the input validation for the Change Database Prefix tool
  • Update: Improved the validation of permissions for readme.html file
  • Update: Improved user-rights retrieval in the WordPress database

v0.5

  • New feature: A System Information Report box provides a summary of your web server's components
  • New setting: Option to open / close WebsiteDefender dashboard widget
  • Update: Internal code updates
  • Update: More help resource links

v0.4

  • BugFix: The bug reported about ALTER rights retrieval has been addressed
  • Update: Code cleanup
  • Update: Minor internal updates

v0.3

  • Update: Minor updates

0.2

  • Update: Minor updates

v0.1

  • Feature: Removes error-information on login-page
  • Feature: Adds index.php to the wp-content, wp-content/plugins, wp-content/themes and wp-content/uploads directories to prevent directory listings
  • Feature: Removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
  • Feature: Removes Really Simple Discovery meta tag
  • Feature: Removes Windows Live Writer meta tag
  • Feature: Removes core update information for non-admins
  • Feature: Removes plugin-update information for non-admins
  • Feature: Removes theme-update information for non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher)
  • Feature: Hides wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins
  • Feature: Removes version on URLs from scripts and stylesheets only on frontend
  • Feature: Provides various information after scanning your WordPress blog
  • Feature: Provides file permissions security checks
  • Feature: Provides a strong password generator tool
  • Feature: Provides database backup utility
  • Feature: Provides a tool for changing the database prefix
  • Feature: Turns off database error reporting (if enabled)
  • Feature: Turns off PHP error reporting

For more information on the WebsiteDefender WordPress Security plug-in and other WordPress security news, visit the WebsiteDefender Blog and join our Facebook page. Post any questions or feedback on the WebsiteDefender WordPress Security plug-in forum.

Requires: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2011-12-19
Downloads: 20,887

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