Automatic cleanup of malware and suspicious files
This powerful feature automatically deletes trojans, viruses, backdoors, and other malware and recover infected files. Cerber Security Professional scans the website on an hourly basis and removes malware immediately, providing the best in class threat protection. Automatic cleanup of malware If the malware scanner detects malicious [...]
Development version 7.6.3
While a new version of Cerber Security for WordPress in the works, you can get early access to some new features, code improvements and bug fixes right now. What’s new in this release A possible issue with uploading a large JSON or CSV file addressed in this development version of the plugin. When Traffic Inspector scans uploaded [...]
Development version 7.6.1
While a new version of Cerber Security for WordPress in the works, you can get early access to some new features, code improvements and bug fixes right now. A possible Divi theme forms incompatibility addressed in this development version of the plugin. If you use the Divi theme (by Elegant Themes), you can come across a problem with [...]
WP Cerber Security 7.6
New. The quarantine has got a separate admin page in the WordPress dashboard. When you use the malware scanner to found and then delete malware files, they are moved to the file quarantine. On the new quarantine admin page, you can view deleted files, restore or delete them. The plugin automatically deletes files in the quarantine after [...]
Get WordPress protected: rename the plugins folder
Giving the plugins folder a new name is one of the most underestimated ways that make your WordPress protection stronger. And yet it’s free and easy. Why it matters and how it works According to our studies at Cerber Lab most hacker attacks and attempts to exploit plugin vulnerabilities assume that all WordPress plugins are located [...]
Development version 7.5.2
Now the malware scanner and integrity checker supports multisite WordPress installations. Bug fixed. Once an address IP has been locked out after reaching the limit to the number of attempts to log in the “We’re sorry, you are not allowed to proceed” forbidden page is being displayed instead of the normal user message “You have exceeded [...]
WP Cerber Security 7.5
What’s new in the Traffic Inspector firewall New. The firewall algorithms have been improved and now inspect the contents of all files that are being tried to upload on a website. It inspects files for a malicious payload and delete a file if it contains malware code. This protects the website against code execution attack through [...]
Contact Form 7 are not working
If your Contact Form 7 form doesn’t work, you need to add a namespace exception for REST API on the Hardening tab. Enter contact-form-7 in the Allow these namespaces setting field as shown on the screenshot below. WordPress Security WordPress 5.4.1. A security update fixes seven XSS vulnerabilities WordPress Security WP Cerber Bug [...]
WP Cerber Security 7.2
Cerber Security Scanner has got new features Monitoring new and changed files (what scanner scans and detects) Monitoring changes, detecting malicious redirections and directives in .htaccess files A new detector for Base64 encoded strings quickly detects obfuscated malware code and trojans Automated hourly and daily scheduled [...]
What the WP Cerber scanner scans and detects
Cerber Security Scanner is a sophisticated and extremely powerful tool that thoroughly scans every folder and inspects every file on a website for traces of malware, trojans, backdoors, changed and new files. The scanner verifies the integrity of WordPress, plugins, and themes and prevents them from being infected with unforeseen [...]
Automated recurring scans and email reporting for WordPress
It’s essential to regularly scan a WordPress powered website for malware and viruses and get scheduled reports. Cerber Security Scanner allows you to easily configure your schedule for automated recurring scanning and automatic malware removal. Once the schedule is configured, the scanner automatically scans the website and sends [...]
How to avoid blocking of legitimate requests
Protecting your website, during its normal operations, WP Cerber inspects all incoming requests to your website and blocks suspicious and harmful ones. On rare occasions, WP Cerber might erroneously block legitimate requests and prevents the website from functioning correctly. If you see legitimate requests that are denied as [...]
Configuring exceptions for the anti-spam engine
Usually, you need to configure anti-spam exceptions if you use a technology that communicates with your website by submitting forms or sending POST requests programmatically. In such cases, WP Cerber can block legitimate requests because it can recognize them as generated by bots. This leads to false positives, which you can see on the [...]
Configuring the WP Cerber scanner settings
Cerber Security Scanner is a sophisticated and powerful tool that inspects every single file and every single folder on a website for traces of malware and backdoors, changed, and new suspicious files. The scanner verifies the integrity of WordPress, plugins, and themes and prevents them from being infected with unforeseen malware. When [...]
The WP Cerber scanner for WordPress
A manual scan mode To manually start scanning, go to the Site Integrity admin page and click either the Start Quick Scan button or the Start Full Scan button. Do not close the browser window while the scan is in progress. You can open a new browser tab to do something else on the website. Once the scan has finished, you can close the [...]