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The final plugin of the three part TTC ( TimesToCome ) WordPress security set is ready. This one acts as a tripwire. If a file is changed by you or more importantly someone other than you you’ll know.
Simply install and activate the plugin. Once activated go to the plugin management page and tell it you want a list of all files changed in the last 0-99 days ( pick your day ) and it will bring up a list of altered files for you.
If your WordPress install is in the top directory of your website this will check all the directories on your website. If you are down one level ( http://yoursite.com/wordpress/ ) then you can change this line:
$directories_to_read[$dir_count] = “../”; // plugins run from wp-admin so bounce up a directory
to this:
$directories_to_read[$dir_count] = “../../”; // plugins run from wp-admin so bounce up a directory
And it will check all the directories not just your WordPress directories.
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Part 1: WP plugin to prevent bot registrations
Part 2: WP Security Plugin: block bots, scrapers, cross-script attacks and more
Part 3: Tripwire
Install them all for best results!
Tags: security · tools · wordpress
** 7/15/08 Turn off the security script while you do the WP 2.6 update
This is part 2 of a 3 part security suite for WordPress. This part blocks cross-site script attempts, ip numbers of ill behaved people and bots and bans bad user agents. Since trouble is always changing this plugin allows you to adjust who you want to block. I’ve started you out with every bad bot I caught on my site this past month. You can remove bots, add bots and add and remove ips and requests.
Many internet websites list bad bots, or you can just watch your access-logs to see who is causing problems on your site. Several tools for finding weaknesses in your WP to hack are blocked and you can add more to the list as new ones appear on the net.
Cross site scripting attacks often contain .txt? .txt?? .txt??? or ?_wp_http_referer in the request. If new cross site scripts show up, you can easily add them to the list.
Anyone who’s bot or request shows up on your black list has his ip automatically added to your blacklisted ip list.
This plugin creates a page under ‘Manage’. On it you can blacklist ip numbers, user agents, and requests that you don’t want on your site.
If you have the TTC User Registration Bot Detector installed, both plugins will use the same bad ip list to make things easier for you.
The management page will also give you a list of all attempts at registration and if they were bounced and why.
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You should also add an email address to the error page. Do not use your main email address. Just set up an extra email address and change the error page like so:
print “<html>\n”;
print “<head><title>Banned</title></head>\n”;
print “<body>\n”;
print “<h2>Banned: $blacklisted: $code</h2>\n”;
print “<p> Contact: <a href=\”mailto:timestocome@gmail.com\”>timestocome@gmail.com</a> if you have questions.”;
print “<p> Be sure to include your ip number “;
print “</body>\n”;
print “</html>\n”;
Or you can just totally customize the two error pages. One starts at line 145, the second at line 171. Look for “// print error page”
If you use quotes in your page for a link you must escape them. Use \” where you would normally use a ”
Part 1 - Block bots from registering on your blog
Part III Tripwire tells you which files have been recently altered
See also:
Requests I’m blocking for a current list of things to block
Bots I’m blocking for a current list of bots we block
More information:
Know your enemy: Web application threats
Secunia: Wordpress security vulnerabilites
SQL Injection Cheat Sheet
Google Online Security Blog
Tags: security · tools · wordpress
While BadBehavior and WebProfessor do very good jobs at keeping bots from registering on your WordPress site I wanted the control WebProfessor gave me and the automation that BadBehavior gave me but neither did both.
So here is a plugin to help keep bots from registering on your website. It will log all registration attempts and tell you why it bounced any bots.
You can blacklist domains, emails, and ips.
It will automatically block anyone whose ip shows up more than once, who is listed in spamhaus, or who you’ve blacklisted. If you hosting company allows ‘file_get_contents’ calls you can uncomment the StopForumSpam and check their list as well.
Anyone pretending to be a browser but whose ‘accept’ line is wrong will also get bounced.
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See also:
Part 2 of 3: WordPress Security Plugin to block scrapers, hackers and more
Part 3 of 3: WordPress plugin tells you which files have been altered recently
Tags: security · tools · wordpress
