Wordfence is the most downloaded security plugin for WordPress websites

Our WordPress security plugin provides the best protection available for your website. Powered by the constantly updated Threat Defense Feed, WordFence Firewall stops you from getting hacked. Wordfence Scan leverages the same proprietary feed, alerting you quickly in the event your site is compromised. Our Live Traffic view gives you real-time visibility into traffic and hack attempts on your website. A deep set of additional tools round out the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.

To learn more about the features of the Wordfence security plugin, activate one of the four categories below, then select a feature for detailed information.

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Web Application Firewall

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Web Application Firewall

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Get Peace of Mind with the Wordfence Web Application Firewall

The Web Application Firewall stops you from getting hacked by identifying malicious traffic, blocking attackers before they can access your website. Powered by the Threat Defense Feed, it is automatically updated with new firewall rules that protect you from the latest threats. Even if you are running a vulnerable plugin or theme, Wordfence will protect you from being hacked by blocking attacks based on known and constantly updated attack patterns.

Wordfence protects you from new and emerging threats

The Wordfence Forensic Lab is constantly adding new firewall rules to the Threat Defense Feed
The Premium version of the Threat Defense Feed is updated in real-time

Real-Time Threat Defense Feed

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Real-Time Threat Defense Feed

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Protection from the latest threats, delivered as they emerge

Wordfence protects over 2 million WordPress websites, giving us unmatched access to information about how hackers compromise sites, where attacks originate from and the malicious code they leave behind. The team in our Forensic Lab are constantly adding updates as they discover new threats. Premium members receive the real-time version of the Threat Defense Feed. Free users receive the community version, which is delayed by 30 days.

The real-time version of the Threat Defense Feed provides our Firewall and Scan Engine with:

Updated firewall rules
The latest malware signatures
Malicious IP updates

Block Brute Force Attacks

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Block Brute Force Attacks

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Stop brute force attacks

It takes just one look at the live login activity on your site to quickly realize how many failed login attempts you receive. Wordfence monitors these and will lock out any attempts to brute-force guess your WordPress password or WordPress usernames.

Wordfence prevents Brute Force Attacks by:

Locking out users after too many login failures
Locking out users after using the “forgot password” form too many times
Optionally locking out anyone who uses an invalid username
Preventing WordPress from giving hackers information about what usernames may exist on your system
Enforcing Cell Phone Sign-in (Two Factor Authentication) with Wordfence Premium

Country Blocking

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Country Blocking

⋆Premium Plan Feature

Put geographic protection in place

Wordfence country blocking is designed to stop an attack, prevent content theft or end malicious activity that originates from a geographic region in less than 1/300,000th of a second. Blocking countries who are regularly creating failed logins, a large number of page not found errors and are clearly engaging in malicious activity is an effective way to protect your site during an attack.

Wordfence Country Blocking gives you these options to protect your WP site:

Block access to your login form
Block access to the rest of your WordPress site
Access to a continually updated database of country to IP mappings
You’ll find even more options in Advanced Blocking

Advanced Manual Blocking

Powerful options allow you to block traffic from any source

Quickly and efficiently dispatch site security threats by blocking entire malicious networks and any human or robot activity that indicates suspicious intentions based on pattern matching and IP ranges.

Wordfence helps you intelligently block WordPress website threats by giving you the ability to:

Block ranges of IP addresses (Think of these as networks)
Specific web browsers and web browser patterns
Referring websites
Any combination of the above

Malware Scanner

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Malware Scanner

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Scan for Malware, Bad URLs, Backdoors and DNS Changes There are many places on WordPress sites for hackers to hide, but not with Wordfence. We maintain a cluster of high performance servers in our data center to assist with scanning your website. When Wordfence scans your site, it compares your core files, themes and plugins with what is in the WordPress.org repository and reports any changes to you. Wordfence leaves no corner of your WordPress site untended by:

Scanning core files, themes and plugins for malware, code injections and backdoors. Also checks them against WordPress.org repository versions to check their integrity
Checks URLs against Google’s safe browsing list
Scans for DNS changes
Premium users can scan as frequently as every hour and select optimal times that don’t interfere with high traffic time periods.

Real-Time Threat Defense Feed

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Real-Time Threat Defense Feed

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Protection from the latest threats, delivered as they emerge

The real-time version of the Threat Defense Feed provides our Firewall and Scan Engine with:

Updated firewall rules
The latest malware signatures
Malicious IP updates

Check if Site IP is Generating Spam

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Check if Site IP is Generating Spam

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Feeling ignored? Your emails might be trapped

Your legitimate customer emails can be caught in spam filters if another site on your shared IP address is generating a lot of spam. Use this feature to confirm that your site is running on a clean IP address, and that the shared IP you are using to host your website is not listed as a known source of spam email.

Wordfence prevents your IP from generating spam by:

Checking your IP address reputation with reputation providers like Spamhaus
Protecting your own website which prevents your site from being used to send spam email
Alerting you to file changes that don’t match the official WordPress repository, which may indicate a script installed that generates spam

Check if Site is Spamvertized

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Check if Site is Spamvertized

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More than a pain, spam is destructive

When your website URL is being used for spamvertising, it can severely impact your SEO rankings and email deliverability. Wordfence checks if your website URL has been flagged for spamvertising, indicating that your site may have been compromised or that you are emailing too aggressively.

Wordfence prevents your site from becoming a venue for spamvertizing by:

Protecting your site from being hacked, which prevents spammers from using your URL in spam emails
Checking if your site domain name has been flagged as a source of spam, which may indicate that your site has been hacked, or you are being flagged as a spammer for another reason

View Blocked Intrusion Attempts

Watch hackers trying to break into your site right now

Monitor visits and hack attempts not shown in other analytics packages and see attempts in real time; including where in the world they’re coming from, their IP address, the time of day and time spent on your site.

Wordfence monitoring in real time means you’ll see:

Traffic from robots, humans, Google crawlers and 404 errors
Traffic not shown by Google Analytics and other Javascript loggers
Logins, logouts and who is consuming the most content
Security threats and exploit attempts in real-time
Visitor location at the city level and visitor hostname

View Google Crawl Activity

Watch Google Crawl Your Site In Real Time

If you’re like most website owners, SEO matters. Monitor Google as it crawls your site to see which pages are being crawled and which aren’t. Identify issues like crawling non-existent pages and missing robots.txt files.

Wordfence Live Traffic monitoring allows you to see:

Separates pageviews generated by humans from those generated by crawlers
Immediately blocks fake Google crawlers and malicious or overly aggressive crawlers
Helps enhance SEO by logging how often and when Google crawlers access your site

View Bots and Crawlers

Block rogue crawlers in real-time. Save bandwidth, protect content.

If someone or something is generating many “page not found errors” or consuming content too aggressively, they’re likely up to no good. Block them with Wordfence, and make room for Google crawlers to work unhindered.

Wordfence is your ally in crawler control, because it:

Separates pageviews generated by humans from those generated by crawlers
Immediately blocks fake Google crawlers and malicious or overly aggressive crawlers
Helps enhance SEO by logging how often and when Google crawlers access your site

View Logins and Logouts

Watch visitors log in and out of your site in real time

There are many scenarios where it is helpful to see who is logging in and out of your site. If you think that you’ve been hacked you can look to see who has logged in, when they did and where they came from. If you are seeing a huge spike in brute force login attempts, you can use the information to develop a blocking strategy. Visibility into which usernames attackers are using during password guessing attacks alerts you to usernames you may need to change.

Wordfence Live Traffic monitoring allows you to see:

Logins, logouts and who is consuming the most content
Traffic from robots, humans, Google crawlers and 404 errors
Traffic not shown by Google Analytics and other Javascript loggers
Security threats and exploit attempts in real-time
Visitor location at the city level and visitor hostname

View Human Visitors

Watch site visitors use your site in real time

Monitor visits to your site in real time; including where in the world they’re coming from, their IP address, the time of day and time spent on your site.

Wordfence Live Traffic monitoring allows you to see:

Traffic from robots, humans, Google crawlers and 404 errors
Traffic not shown by Google Analytics and other Javascript loggers
Security threats and exploit attempts in real-time
Visitor location at the city level and visitor hostname

Cell Phone Sign In

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Cell Phone Sign In

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The most effective way to stop brute force attacks permanently

Take your site security to the next level with “Two Factor Authentication” and secure your website investment. Used by banks, government agencies and military worldwide, Two Factor is one of the most secure forms of remote system authentication available.

Wordfence Cell Phone Sign-in is secure because:

It relies on something you know (your password) and something you have (your cellphone). Two factors
It prevents simple password guessing attacks because they don’t have your cellphone to pass the second phase of authentication
An attacker needs to know your password before you will receive an SMS, protecting you from being inundated with SMS’s during a brute force attack

Repair Files

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Repair Files

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Don’t just find corrupted files. See the changes and repair them

Wordfence uses our source code verification feature to tell you what has changed and help repair hacked files. Backed by our cloud servers (over a terabyte of data), Wordfence checks the integrity of your core files, theme files and plugin files against what is stored in the official WordPress repository. We maintain a record of every WordPress core, theme and plugin file ever released to the official repository to provide this feature.

After Wordfence has alerted you to file changes, you can:

See how files have changed, something only Wordfence does
Download the original file to compare original to current
View and repair the file by overwriting with a pristine, original version

Advanced Comment Spam Filter

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Advanced Comment Spam Filter

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Block spam comments more effectively

Say goodbye to spam with Wordfence. The free version of Wordfence includes an excellent comment spam filter, and if you are a premium customer our advanced comment spam filter is automatically enabled which provides an additional layer of filtering. The advanced filter does an additional check on the source IP of inbound comments and any URLs that are included.

Wordfence reduces spam that is known to slip through traditional filters by:

Using advanced heuristics to identify spam comments, like URLs, source IP, and content
Using aggregated data to identify comment spammers
Giving you the flexibility to change your filter settings

Monitor Disk Space

Out of server disk space? You’ll know before it happens

Running out of disk space has the potential to make your server unavailable. Some Denial of Service attacks actually force your website to run out of disk space. Wordfence monitors your available space and will alert you to a problem before it results in downtime.

Wordfence prevents your site running out of disk space by:

Constantly monitoring disk space for your site
Sending an email alert before disk space reaches critical levels

Get Detailed IP Info

Someone’s knocking, but who’s there?

You will learn more about your visitors using the detailed information Wordfence provides about each visitor IP address. Using this information you can decide to let them into your site or block them.

Wordfence lets you view detailed IP address information like:

Visitor location down to the city level
Who the visitor’s Internet Service Provider is
History for each IP address showing which pages they have visited
Which network an IP address belongs to using our “whois” lookup feature
What network an entire IP address belongs to and how to block it

See how the features compare by plan - free vs Wordfence Premium Compare Our Plans

Choose Your Wordfence Plan	Premium $99 per year or less*	Free $0 per year
Real-Time Threat Defense Feed	⋆
Country Blocking	⋆
Check if Site IP is Generating Spam	⋆
Check if Site is Spamvertized	⋆
Cell Phone Sign In	⋆
Advanced Comment Spam Filter	⋆
Web Application Firewall	✓	✓
Block Brute Force Attacks	✓	✓
Advanced Manual Blocking	✓	✓
Malware Scanner	✓	✓
View Blocked Intrusion Attempts	✓	✓
View Google Crawl Activity	✓	✓
View Bots and Crawlers	✓	✓
View Logins and Logouts	✓	✓
View Human Visitors	✓	✓
Repair Files	✓	✓
Monitor Disk Space	✓	✓
Get Detailed IP Info	✓	✓

*The more Wordfence Premium license keys you buy, the more you save.

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"Wordfence security plugin alerted me in an email that two of my blog plugins need updating. That's handy!"

@Elfbride, Publisher, Dallas Fort Worth, Texas

"The Wordfence plugin is impressively feature rich. A must-have for Wordpress security. Thanks to @SFoskett for bringing it to my attention!"

@JLivens, Director of Marketing, Iron Mountain

"Found @wordfence when I needed malicious cleanup help on one of my #Wordpress sites. Impressed!"

@bryanchalker, Consultant Web Designer, Atlanta, GA

"I manage 80+ blog sites and Wordfence is on every one of them! Emails you when anything needs an update or any issue."

@BrianBasilico, Micro Blogger, Aurora, IL

"I have been using Wordfence Premium for over 6 months now and love it! It has protected my site from everything that I could ever think of. Thank you for your great software and being part of a open source community. Keep up the great work!!"

LilGeekShop.net, Online Store, Moultrie, GA

"Our website seems to be under attack at the moment. But all well thanks to a little plugin called Wordfence. Well worth a look."

@mintyslippers, Filmmaker, United Kingdom

"121 attempts to hack the shesageek site in the last 10 minutes! So glad i installed wordfence security on the site."

@shesageeksta, Publisher, Sydney, Australia

"intox.dk is currently being attacked by what seems to be a botnet. Thanks to @wordfence, the site is still fully secured."

@intoxstudio, Design Studio, Denmark

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Wordfence is the most downloaded security plugin for WordPress websites

Web Application Firewall

Get Peace of Mind with the Wordfence Web Application Firewall

Wordfence protects you from new and emerging threats

Real-Time Threat Defense Feed

Protection from the latest threats, delivered as they emerge

The real-time version of the Threat Defense Feed provides our Firewall and Scan Engine with:

Block Brute Force Attacks

Stop brute force attacks

Wordfence prevents Brute Force Attacks by:

Country Blocking

Put geographic protection in place

Wordfence Country Blocking gives you these options to protect your WP site:

Advanced Manual Blocking

Powerful options allow you to block traffic from any source

Wordfence helps you intelligently block WordPress website threats by giving you the ability to:

Malware Scanner

Real-Time Threat Defense Feed

Protection from the latest threats, delivered as they emerge

The real-time version of the Threat Defense Feed provides our Firewall and Scan Engine with:

Check if Site IP is Generating Spam

Feeling ignored? Your emails might be trapped

Wordfence prevents your IP from generating spam by:

Check if Site is Spamvertized

More than a pain, spam is destructive

Wordfence prevents your site from becoming a venue for spamvertizing by:

View Blocked Intrusion Attempts

Watch hackers trying to break into your site right now

Wordfence monitoring in real time means you’ll see:

View Google Crawl Activity

Watch Google Crawl Your Site In Real Time

Wordfence Live Traffic monitoring allows you to see:

View Bots and Crawlers

Block rogue crawlers in real-time. Save bandwidth, protect content.

Wordfence is your ally in crawler control, because it:

View Logins and Logouts

Watch visitors log in and out of your site in real time

Wordfence Live Traffic monitoring allows you to see:

View Human Visitors

Watch site visitors use your site in real time

Wordfence Live Traffic monitoring allows you to see:

Cell Phone Sign In

The most effective way to stop brute force attacks permanently

Wordfence Cell Phone Sign-in is secure because:

Repair Files

Don’t just find corrupted files. See the changes and repair them

After Wordfence has alerted you to file changes, you can:

Advanced Comment Spam Filter

Block spam comments more effectively

Wordfence reduces spam that is known to slip through traditional filters by:

Monitor Disk Space

Out of server disk space? You’ll know before it happens

Wordfence prevents your site running out of disk space by:

Get Detailed IP Info

Someone’s knocking, but who’s there?

Wordfence lets you view detailed IP address information like:

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