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Useful information and technical details if you want to know more how to protect WordPress from modern threats effectively
Cloudflare and WP Cerber
If your site is behind the Cloudflare proxy service and your WordPress is protected by the WP Cerber plugin, you have to do two things to let them work well together. Enable My site is behind a reverse proxy on the Main Settings page. If you have configured the Custom login URL, you have to exclude it from caching by Cloudflare’s [...]
Notifications on WordPress user logs in
It can be easily done by having the jetFlow.io plugin installed and using a tiny workflow. Security Blog WP Cerber Bug Bounty Program WordPress Security How To How to Set Your Language for WP Cerber Security Blog Cloudflare add-on for WP Cerber Help What is RID and how to use it
A better way to automate WordPress
I am pleased to announce an absolutely new automation plugin that has recently arrived. The jetFlow plugin is an automation tool that brings power of workflows to your WordPress powered site. This new plugin allows you to automate almost any task or business process without coding knowledge. Furthermore, you can fine tune any aspect of [...]
Turn your WordPress into Fort Knox
This article assumes that we want to get a bulletproof protected website powered by WordPress. It’s not necessarily to do all the following steps word for word and point by point exactly as described. But I do recommend that if you want to create your own Fort Knox. Security Blog Brute-force, DoS, and DDoS attacks – [...]
Limit login attempts without a plugin?
You can find plenty of comments and advice on that on the Internet. But is it real? WordPress Security How To How to Set Your Language for WP Cerber Security Blog WP Cerber Bug Bounty Program Security Blog Cloudflare add-on for WP Cerber Security Blog Exporting personal data from logs
Hardening WordPress with WP Cerber
All suggested settings are highly recommended for most websites on the Internet. If you need, for some reason, provide access to the functions and features listed on this page from a particular computer or an IP network, you need to add them to the White IP Access List. Disable REST API The plugin restricts access to the [...]
Know more about intruder’s IP
To enable retrieving, check option: Drill down IP. To view the information click on a particular IP address on the Activity tab. Technical details To get extra information like country, company, network info and abuse contact WP Cerber uses requests to a limited set of external WHOIS servers which are maintained by appropriate [...]
Plugin Inspector
Want to know more about plugins you have installed on your blog? The Plugin Inspector plugin is an easy way to check plugins installed on your WordPress and make sure that plugins do not use deprecated WordPress functions and some unsafe functions like eval, base64_decode, system, exec, etc. Some of those functions may be used [...]
How to protect WordPress with Fail2Ban
Together, WP Cerber and Fail2Ban can stop brute-force attacks before they reach your WordPress at all. WP Cerber detects failed logins at the application level; Fail2Ban acts on them at the OS level, blocking offenders with iptables. That combination stops brute-force and DoS attacks with minimal overhead. What is Fail2Ban [...]
Hardening WordPress with WP Cerber and NGINX
NGINX is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. WP Cerber is a free, open-source, security plugin which protects WordPress powered sites from intruders and hackers. How to hardening WordPress using WP Cerber and NGINX together First of all, you need to set up a Custom login URL and check Block direct access to [...]
How to find hidden login page on WordPress
Let’s assume you’ve decided to hide your WordPress login page and wp-admin dashboard from hackers by hiding these pages with a simple plugin or a trick. Do you think it works and nobody knows your secrets? Don’t be so naive. Anyone can easily find out login and dashboard pages with the following simple tricks. [...]
What to do if your WordPress site has been hacked
Immediately change passwords. Your WordPress user account and all accounts with administrative privileges on the website. The MySQL password for your website database and the password for MySQL server administrator. FTP too, if it is enabled. Reinstall WordPress. Manually remove old one and install again (do not forget to make backup of [...]
Recommended security settings for WP Cerber
We provide you with settings based on best security practices. This settings suitable for most of the WordPress powered sites in the Internet. See screenshot below to see how it’s easy. Limit login attempts Attempts 3 allowed retries in 60 minutes Lockout duration 60 minutes Aggressive lockout Increase lockout duration to 24 hours [...]
Custom login page for WordPress
The custom login page feature is a great tool for reducing the attack surface and eliminating spam registrations. It’s the first thing you should enable on a newly installed WordPress. Another highly recommended security measure is renaming WordPress’s plugins folder. Why it matters and why it works According to our studies [...]
How to hide wp-admin and wp-login.php from attacks
With WP Cerber Security you can do that with several clicks. Open WP Cerber main settings page. Turn on Disable automatic redirection to the login page when /wp-admin/ is requested by an unauthorized request Enter your desired custom login URL into the Custom login URL field Turn on Block direct access to wp-login.php and return HTTP 404 [...]