Title: Janric Simple Attack Monitor
Author: keithlunt
Published: <strong>June 15, 2026</strong>
Last modified: June 15, 2026

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# Janric Simple Attack Monitor

 By [keithlunt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keithlunt/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/janric-simple-attack-monitor.1.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/janric-simple-attack-monitor/#description)
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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/janric-simple-attack-monitor/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/janric-simple-attack-monitor/#developers)

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## Description

Most security plugins try to do everything — firewall, blocking, malware scanning,
email alerts — and end up bloated, slow, and full of upsells. Attack Monitor does
one thing: it watches your site for common attack patterns and quietly logs them,
so you always know what’s being thrown at your site.
 What it detects

Brute force login attempts
 XML-RPC abuse (including system.multicall floods) User
enumeration via ?author= and the REST API Admin area probing by unauthenticated 
visitors Path and plugin scanning (phpinfo.php, .env, phpmyadmin, wp-config.php 
and more) SQL injection attempts in URLs and POST data XSS attempts in URLs and 
POST data Comment flooding

What you get

A dashboard widget showing this week’s attacks by category at a glance
 A full log
page with day / week / 30-day / all-time views A bar chart of attack volume over
time Top attacking IPs ranked by hit count Filterable event log with timestamps,
IPs, URLs and detail Safe IP whitelist — exclude your own monitoring tools, cron
jobs or office IP ranges CIDR range support (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) for the whitelist
A single lightweight database table — nothing else added to your WordPress installation

Philosophy
 Detection and blocking are separate concerns. This plugin handles detection
only, leaving you free to choose how you respond — whether that’s Fail2ban, Cloudflare,
a companion blocking plugin, or simply reviewing the data. No firewall rules are
added, no requests are blocked or slowed down, and no data is sent anywhere outside
your own database. Ideal for developers, agencies and site owners who want visibility
without handing over control to an all-in-one security suite.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/janric-simple-attack-monitor/`
    directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
 3. That’s it — no configuration needed unless you want to ignore IP addresses.
 4. To ignore known safe probes, e.g. regular jobs you run, go to the Attack Monitor
    in the Navigation bar, then Safe IPs and simply add 1 IP address per line for all
    you wish to ignore.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Janric Simple Attack Monitor” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ keithlunt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keithlunt/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/janric-simple-attack-monitor/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/janric-simple-attack-monitor/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/janric-simple-attack-monitor/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **1 month ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.2**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [hardening](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hardening/)[rest-api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest-api/)
   [security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)[xml-rpc](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xml-rpc/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ keithlunt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keithlunt/)

## Support

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