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chesio / bc-security

Helps keeping WordPress websites secure.
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Automatically blacklist remote addresses scanning for common weaknesses #132

Closed chesio closed 1 year ago

chesio commented 1 year ago

An example: scanning for wp-config.php.bak file.

chesio commented 1 year ago

Another example: any .php file that triggers 404 error.

chesio commented 1 year ago

A point to consider: even if IP address is added to blocklist, access to existing files won't be affected by it.

To make this feature more useful, the internal blocklist would have to be propagated to .htaccess file.