A Comprehensive Security Solution For WordPress
Wordfence is a global team of WordPress security analysts, threat researchers, software engineers, and support staff. We are the leaders in our field, and we focus exclusively on securing WordPress websites, and on WordPress security research. We provide 24-hour service, 365 days a year for mission-critical websites, with a 1 hour response time via Wordfence Response. To learn more about our products, check out our Product Comparison Page.
Login Security
Wordfence leads the industry in login security controls, including brute force protection, XMLRPC protection, reCAPTCHA to block automated attacks, and IP access control.
Centralized Management
Centralized security events and template-based security configuration management, 100% free. Our customers constantly tell us that Wordfence Central is too good to be true. Even users of the free version of Wordfence get full access to Wordfence Central at no cost.
24/7 Incident Response Team
Wordfence Care and Response customers receive hands-on support to install, configure, and optimize Wordfence along with continuous security monitoring from our team. Wordfence Response customers get 24/7 support and monitoring with a 1-hour response time.
Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication or 2FA has become a standard requirement for any secure service. Wordfence provides robust 2FA for your admins and users using secure open standards.
Malware Scan
Wordfence maintains the largest WordPress-specific malware database in the world. Using this intelligence trove, we produce malware signatures to block intrusion attempts, detect malicious activity, and provide robust security for your WordPress site.
The Wordfence Firewall
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team continuously discovers new vulnerabilities in WordPress core, plugins, and themes. We immediately release new firewall rules that protect against these vulnerabilities, which are deployed in real-time to our paid customers providing the best available intrusion prevention for WordPress.
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It's All About The Data
Our unique data is what makes Wordfence so effective. Premium, Care, and Response customers receive real-time updates to protection and detection rules.
Total Attacks Blocked
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Malicious IPs Blocklisted
55,556
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month: You Could Be the Biggest Threat to Your WordPress Site
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S., and this year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber.” What is really being said by this theme is that we all have a role to play in cyber security, whether we work in the industry or not. With this in mind, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure …
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Wordfence 7.7.0 Is Out! Here Are The Changes
Wordfence 7.7.0 has just been released and as usual, it includes several awesome enhancements and updates for our security conscious WordPress publishers and e-commerce websites. This post goes into a little more detail on each change we’ve included. We don’t usually post additional detail like this, and we thought we’d give it a try, and …
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Cross-Site Scripting: The Real WordPress Supervillain
Vulnerabilities are a fact of life for anyone managing a website, even when using a well-established content management system like WordPress. Not all vulnerabilities are equal, with some allowing access to sensitive data that would normally be hidden from public view, while others could allow a malicious actor to take full control of an affected …
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PSA: Zero-Day Vulnerability in WPGateway Actively Exploited in the Wild
On September 8, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team became aware of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability being used to add a malicious administrator user to sites running the WPGateway plugin. We released a firewall rule to Wordfence Premium, Wordfence Care, and Wordfence Response customers to block the exploit on the same day, September 8, …
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PSA: Nearly 5 Million Attacks Blocked Targeting 0-Day in BackupBuddy Plugin
Late evening, on September 6, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was alerted to the presence of a vulnerability being actively exploited in BackupBuddy, a WordPress plugin we estimate has around 140,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated users to download arbitrary files from the affected site which can include sensitive information. …
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WordPress Core 6.0.2 Security & Maintenance Release – What You Need to Know
On August 30, 2022, the WordPress core team released WordPress version 6.0.2, which contains patches for 3 vulnerabilities, including a High Severity SQLi vulnerability in the Links functionality as well as two Medium Severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities. These patches have been backported to every version of WordPress since 3.7. WordPress has supported automatic core updates …
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