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WordPress Security How To


Instructions and guidelines on how to protect your website effectively

WordPress Security How To

How to view spam form submissions

If you’ve enabled WP Cerber’s anti-spam protection, the engine protects all or selected forms on your WordPress-powered website and denies attempts to submit spam. But how can we see submitted form data if a form submission was identified as spam? It’s possible by using Traffic Inspector logging capabilities. Enable the [...]

Continue Reading... 12th March '18 Gregory

WordPress Security How To

Strong login security with WP Cerber

It’s no secret that bad actors can break into a newly installed WordPress within a few minutes by mounting a brute-force attack. It’s possible because WordPress has no built-in attack mitigation mechanisms, the default login URL is well known, and the username of a website’s admin can be discovered with ease. WP Cerber [...]

Continue Reading... 30th April '20 Gregory

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Removing malware without paying a dime

If you found your website infected with malware, you have many options to remove it. Most of them are paid, but one of them is free. It’s free if you are willing to do it by yourself following this guide. It is important to note that this approach will help you remove many types of WordPress malware but may fail in case of complex [...]

Continue Reading... 30th March '20 Gregory

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Optimizing export performance

If you come across an issue with exporting a large number of activity events or the traffic log entries and so you’re unable to download the CSV file, you can tweak the plugin export mechanism. When WP Cerber creates an export file, it does it in several iterations, meaning it splits all the rows retrieved from the database into [...]

Continue Reading... 26th January '20 Gregory

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How to safely reinstall WordPress

Reinstalling WordPress is useful if some files were altered or missing, it’s a safe way to fix security issues with WordPress files. In the vertical WordPress admin menu click “Dashboard”, then the “Updates” submenu. It takes you to the “WordPress Updates” admin page as shown below. Click the [...]

Continue Reading... 13th January '21 Gregory

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How to block a WordPress user

In this post, we explain how to disable a WordPress user account without deleting it. You can do it with WP Cerber Security in a few clicks. Once a user is blocked, the user will not be able to log into the website. If you block a logged-in user, the user will be automatically logged out and redirected to the home page of the website. [...]

Continue Reading... 13th January '21 Gregory

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Restrict access to the WordPress REST API

WP Cerber Security allows you to restrict or completely block access to WordPress REST API which is enabled by default. To enable protection go to the Hardening tab and enable Block access to WordPress REST API except any of the following. This blocks access to the REST API unless you grant access to it in the settings fields [...]

Continue Reading... 13th December '20 Gregory

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How to stop spam user registrations on your WordPress

Enable an antispam engine for the registration form The fastest way to stop spammers is to enable the antispam engine for the WordPress registration form. To enable protection: Go to the Antispam plugin admin page Enable Protect registration form with bot detection engine in the Cerber antispam engine section If you have a [...]

Continue Reading... 30th January '20 Gregory

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How to clean up the activity and live traffic logs

Note: the following operations cannot be rolled back How to delete all Activity log records To completely delete all Activity log records stored in the website database, go to the WP Cerber → Tools admin page and click the Diagnostic tab. In the Database info section find the following title: Table: cerber_log, rows: xxxx. Click the [...]

Continue Reading... 13th December '20 Gregory

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How to protect WordPress against CVE-2018-6389 DoS attacks

We should say that this is not a critical vulnerability and doesn’t allow a hacker to break into a victim website. It’s rather a design flaw that allows anyone to put a WordPress powered website to its knees easily. Bad actors can use it to bring your online store down. The attack can be initiated from any computer by anyone. No special [...]

Continue Reading... 5th June '20 Gregory

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Traffic Logging for WordPress

WP Cerber’s Traffic Inspector not only analyzes and blocks suspicious HTTP requests but also can optionally log them with request details, enabling you to inspect them manually. It uses a thoroughly designed high-performance logging engine. All logged requests are displayed on the Live Traffic page. The logging settings [...]

Continue Reading... 5th June '20 Gregory

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Instant mobile and browser notifications with Pushbullet

WP Cerber allows you to enable desktop and mobile notifications with easy and get all those notifications from your WordPress instantly and for free. In a desktop browser, you will get popup messages even if you logged out of your WordPress. Help What is RID and how to use it WordPress Security WordPress 5.4.1. A security [...]

Continue Reading... 30th March '20 Gregory

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WordPress notifications and alerts made easy

Once you have created an alert for a specific activity you will get a notification letter by email and an optional mobile notification on each event. You can create as many alerts as you need. You can easily create alerts for events according to the filter you have specified on the Activity tab. Go to the Activity tab, filter [...]

Continue Reading... 13th December '20 Gregory

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How to change date format on Activity page

The plugin has a special setting – Date format. It allows you to specify what format to use to display dates and time on admin pages: Activity log, Traffic Inspector and in notification emails. The setting is located in the Preferences section on the Main settings admin page. If the Date format setting field is empty, the date and [...]

Continue Reading... 26th January '20 Gregory

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How to catch bots and robots with a list of prohibited logins

As you already know, there is a small but powerful feature called a list of prohibited logins/usernames. This is a comma-separated list of usernames you do not want to be used on your website in any circumstances. That’s it? Nope, there is no “just in case” features in the WP Cerber Security plugin. But how [...]

Continue Reading... 26th January '20 Gregory

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Releases
WP Cerber Security 8.9
Posted by Gregory on 21st July '21

This version brings a lot of small but important changes and updates to many parts of WP Cerber, but primarily to the malware...

Releases
WP Cerber Security 8.8.5
Posted by Gregory on 6th April '21

This version brings improvements to many WP Cerber’s admin pages. The pages became responsive and are rendered in an agile...

Releases
WP Cerber Security 8.8.3
Posted by Gregory on 10th March '21

New login security features Disabling the default WordPress user authentication through the wp-login.php and using it as a...

Releases
WP Cerber Security 8.8
Posted by Gregory on 18th January '21

We are excited to announce a major release of WP Cerber that brings several new features and multiple important improvements to...

WordPress Security
Managing WordPress application passwords a hassle-...
Posted by Gregory on 13th January '21

Using application passwords as a security measure was introduced in WordPress 5.6. This feature enables you and your users to...

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Check out also: Movers & Moving in the US and Local Farmer Markets in the US

This site is protected by the WP Cerber Security & Limit Login Attempts plugin for WordPress and automated with the jetFlow automation plugin DE | ES | FR | RU | NL | PL | IT | PT