Wordfence Security Premium is one of the most popular WordPress security plugins. Containing many advanced security features to protect your website from hackers, the dashboard interface is very user-friendly and feature-rich, and you don't need to be a technical person to use this plugin. After activation, the plugin will start working automatically and the default settings are suitable for almost all websites.

Introduction to Wordfence Security Plugin

The Wordfence Security plugin comes with a very powerful firewall that allows you to set firewall rules to block traffic from specific IPs or countries, and also offers brute force protection with customization options.

The scanning feature with configurable scheduled tasks is the most powerful feature of this plugin. It will regularly check every file on your website for malware, backdoor programs, invalid URLs or any other vulnerabilities.

Core Features of Wordfence Security Premium WordPress Security Plugin

• Highly advanced malware scanning program
• endpoint firewall
• Theme and Plugin Scanner
• Repair of modified files
• Content Security Check
• Limit Login Attempts
• Brute force protection
• Forcing the use of strong passwords
• two-factor authentication
• Real-time IP blocking system
• password-protected leak
• Monitor hacking attempts
• Real-time traffic
• Traffic congestion in selected countries
• Real-time firewall rules
• Malware Signature Updates
• Known security vulnerability checkers
• Program Scanning
• Login Page Captcha
• Blocking user agents and referral sources

Wordfence Security Premium v8.0.2 Changelog

• Improvements: General compatibility improvements and better error handling for PHP 8+.
• Improvement: Add audit log status to plugin dashboards
• Changed: Increased width of diagnostic text export to improve readability
• Fix: Resolved email hooking and audit logging bugs when third-party plugins send unexpected value types
• Improvements: Updated GeoIP database
• Changed: Changed some of the help text related to the audit log to make it clearer
• Fix: Improved audit log compatibility with certain plugins that would cause excessive noise due to their behavior in setting user roles and features
• Fix: Fixes a log notification that could occur when Wordfence is deactivated, when audit log events are still outstanding and the Wordfence Central link is broken
• Improvement: Introduced Wordfence Review Log, a new advanced feature that monitors all changes and actions in security-sensitive areas of a website via the Wordfence Central remote tamper-proof data store
• Changed: Increased the minimum supported WordPress version to 4.7
• Changed: Increased the minimum supported PHP version to 7.0
• Improvement: Optimize scanning performance by reducing database queries and CPU usage by approximately 38%
• Fix: Added support for translating "page not found" strings when viewing recent traffic.
• Improvement: Changed the strong password requirement notification to make it more readable
• Improvement: removed unnecessary calls to plugin and theme vulnerability checks
• Improvement: Reduced frequency of calls to Wordfence Central for certain operations that do not require synchronized values
• Improvement: refactored some queries to avoid the automatic SHOW FULL COLUMNS query that WordPress performs to validate the database encoding
• Improvement: Infrequently used configuration values are no longer automatically loaded into memory, but only when they are required
• Fix: Fixed an issue where multisite installations using the WAF mysqli storage engine could repeatedly attempt to update WAF rules in non-optimized mode
• Changed: Modified the format of TOTP application URLs to prioritize the site's own URLs for better ordering and display
• Fix: Fixed the last CAPTCHA column on the user page so it no longer shows "(not required)" on 2FA users as this no longer applies!