Releases
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cerber Security 7.0
We’re proud to announce a new version of the plugin with a new security tool: Cerber Security Scanner. Some people might say “Hey guys, you make this neat plugin bulky”. No worries, we keep security algorithms properly optimized and as fast as they can be. All upcoming and new features will not slow down your websites. It’s our [...]
WP Cerber Security 6.7.5
Improvements A new button View Activity has been added to the user edit page in the WordPress dashboard. Miscellaneous code optimizations: performance of database routines and SQL queries have been improved. Updates A new translation to the Swedish language has been added. Thanks to Fredrik Näslund. The Polish language translation have [...]
WP Cerber Security 6.7
Improvements Antispam engine algorithms have been updated to improve AJAX requests handling and reduce false positives. Improved compatibility with WooCommerce, Formidable Forms, Gravity Forms and AJAX file upload. Regular expressions are now available for the Traffic Inspector Request whitelist and Antispam Query whitelist. To specify a [...]
WP Cerber Security 6.5
This version brings a new, advanced and more effective way of loading plugin modules and the plugin security engine. This allows Cerber Security to intercept and inspect suspicious requests more effectively and protect WordPress against attacks that try to exploit a vulnerability in a plugin or a theme. It’s advised to enable loading in [...]
WP Cerber Security 6.2
New features Protection against a denial of service (DoS) attack that exploits recently discovered vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389). It’s not a critical vulnerability and doesn’t allow a hacker to break into a victim website. It’s rather a flaw that allows anyone to put a WordPress powered website to its knees easily. Bad [...]
WP Cerber Security 6.1
In case you missed: version 6.0 announcement. Improvements Traffic Inspector has got a Request White List setting. To exclude a particular request from inspection specify a request string without the website domain and query string (GET parameters). Read more. An Activity filter has been added to the Advanced search form on the Traffic [...]
WP Cerber Security 6.0
New features Hacker attacks on websites get stronger and smarter because fast-growing technologies create new opportunities for hackers and cybercriminals. We cannot ignore those facts and that’s the reason we’ve implemented a new feature: Traffic Inspector. It’s a specialized request inspection algorithm that acts as additional [...]
WP Cerber Security 5.9
Improvements Now you can add comments for new entries in the access lists Improved compatibility with exotic hosting environments: now the plugin handles URLs with the MultiViews server option enabled. If this option is enabled and the server receives a request for /something and this something doesn’t exist, the server tries to [...]
WP Cerber Security 5.8.6
New features Now you can use regular expressions (REGEX) in the list of prohibited usernames. Specify as many patterns as you need. To specify a REGEX pattern wrap a pattern in two forward slashes like /admin.*/. All comparisons are case-insensitive. Improvements and updates A new checkbox on the Notification tab lets you enable/disable [...]
WP Cerber Security 5.8
New features Weekly reports. Now the plugin will send a brief performance report (activity for past seven days, antispam performance) to specified email addresses. Weekly reports are sent once a week. Set desired reporting time on the Notification admin page. Improvements and updates REST API: the deprecated rest_enabled filter is used [...]
WP Cerber Security 5.7
A new version of the WordPress security plugin: WP Cerber Security 5.7
WP Cerber Security 5.5
New features White list for the WordPress anti-spam engine. It allows creating a list of exceptions by specifying a string to search it in a request URI. Cerber anti-spam protects registration form, comment form and tons of other contact forms. White list for REST API requests. It allows creating a list of namespace exceptions if REST [...]
WP Cerber 5.2
This is a bug fix release. Bugs fixed Hidden custom login URL may be discovered by using specially formatted URL. Thanks to Mick from Australia for reporting this bug. Customization CSS styles don’t work on the Custom login page. Depending on server settings you might get the following messages in Apache’s error.log: PHP [...]