Make a backup of everything you have left, especially your database and wp-content folder. Some hosts simply delete hacked websites and you don’t want to lose your entire work to this. Talk to your hosting company. Good quality providers have staff at hand who know their way around the hosting environment and might be able … Read more
Basic Security Steps Since WordPress is so popular there are a lot of drive by hacks knocking around taking advantage of flaws in basic security. All WordPress users should take the following basic and easy steps to protect themselves:- Do not use wp_ as the database table prefix, use any string of random characters that … Read more
Nonces are one time use limited life unique numbers. You can clone them but the problem you’ll see is that once sent back to the server and validated, the other clones will become invalid. You have a few ways to handle this. Generate all your boxes on the server and discard the Javascript. Use Ajax … Read more
It is a good practice to include index.php, with and without a wordpress context. Appach 2.4+ IIRC will add a log message about a missing file if someone access the directory itself, which makes reading the error log more annoying. As for the reason you quote, obviously this do not have any security related impact, … Read more
I have setup WP instance with 2 different database, one for read only and other for admin purpose. But once the admin make the changes, then the ADMIN-DB should be copied and added to SLAVE-DB server. // check if url contains wp-login or wp-admin and then create DB configuration for Master DB else Slave DB. … Read more
The .htaccess file is read by the Apache server software before it even hands over to WordPress to generate a page. It is by far the best place to have your security headers. That said, WordPress does have a class to modify the headers before they are send to the browser. This class contains a … Read more
On nginx, to block access to the xmlrpc.php file, add this location block to the server block of your configuration file: location ~ ^/(xmlrpc\.php) { deny all; }
By default WordPress doesn’t allow to embed the admin pages into a frame. From wp-includes/default-filters.php: add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘send_frame_options_header’, 10, 0 ); To enable embedding, remove the action in a plugin: remove_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘send_frame_options_header’ ); Be aware of the security implications. I wouldn’t do that.
Question 1. so where it is defined before Answer: It is defined in WordPress core. Here a quick online reference or for a local reference take a look at the following file in the root of WordPress: wp-settings.php. In that file (around line 18) following code is shown: define( ‘WPINC’, ‘wp-includes’ ); Question 2. and … Read more
I’m not a security expert, but the code you include in your question roughly does this: Check if the request is not for a static page (it can’t insert anything in that) Check if the request is not from scraper bots Ahrefsbot and MJ12bot. If both checks are passed make a connection with the server … Read more