Title: Super Simple Account Enumeration Blocker
Author: Paul Gilzow
Published: <strong>April 14, 2017</strong>
Last modified: April 17, 2017

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# Super Simple Account Enumeration Blocker

 By [Paul Gilzow](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gilzow/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/super-simple-account-enumeration-blocker.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-simple-account-enumeration-blocker/#description)
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 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-simple-account-enumeration-blocker/#developers)

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## Description

After speaking at WordCamp St. Louis 2017 [http://wordpress.tv/2017/03/29/paul-gilzow-access-denied-keeping-yourself-off-an-attackers-radar/](http://wordpress.tv/2017/03/29/paul-gilzow-access-denied-keeping-yourself-off-an-attackers-radar/),

I was asked if I could bundle the code I demo’ed in the talk into a plugin for people
who aren’t as comfortable writing their own code. As its name implies, it is super
simple. There are no settings. The entire codebase is contained in one file, and
for the most part is about 20 lines of code in length. It is fully commented and
I encourage you to look at the code to see what it does instead of blindly trusting
it.

Specifically, this plugin:
 * removes the redirection of a request from /?author
=# to an author’s pretty permalink * changes author pretty permalinks to /?author
=# * changes author feed pretty permalinks to /?author=#&feed= * removes author 
slug property from user response object for user endpoint in the REST API * removes
overly informative error message when login attempt fails

Rememer: this plugin, _by itself_, will not protect your site from being compromised.
However, it can be an important layer of
 defense when used in a multilayer, defense-
in-depth security strategy.

### Help and Support

Please post questions, request for help to the WordPress plugins forum or
 email
[ssaeb@gilzow.com](https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-simple-account-enumeration-blocker/ssaeb@gilzow.com?output_format=md).
Please be sure to include ‘ssaeb’ in the subject line.

### TO-DO’s

Keep adding ways to block enumerations.

## FAQ

  What version of PHP is required?

PHP 5.3 and newer.

  Where are the settings?

There aren’t any. Adding settings would make it not simple! 😉

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Super Simple Account Enumeration Blocker” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Paul Gilzow ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gilzow/)

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### Interested in development?

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

#### 1.0

Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 * Tags
 * [security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)[user enumeration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user-enumeration/)
   [wpscan](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wpscan/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-simple-account-enumeration-blocker/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Paul Gilzow ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gilzow/)

## Support

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