Shield SecuritybyOne Dollar Plugin

Version: 18.0.6

Version : 18.0.6

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Smarter security protection from hackers through automation. Powerful scanners, 2-Factor Auth, limit logins, auto IP blocks & more.

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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is more than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 8.1.12 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of PHP
Latest WordPress 6.2.1 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days

All the plugins are tested on the same server with exactly same configuration via test script that automatically activates and logs the data WP Hive shows.

All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 8.1.12 & WordPress 6.2.1.
The database server is MySQL 10.6.10 and the default PHP memory limit is 512M.

11M

Total Downloads

50K

Active Installation

10 years

On WordPress

0.0%

Growth Rate

17

Support Thread

1006

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About Shield Security

Description

The highest rated 5* Security Plugin for WordPress Shield – highest average 5* rating for any WordPress security plugin (2019/05). See what people are saying here. It’s 2020 – Don’t settle for just another security plugin. Get smarter security. You don’t need another 100 email notifications. You need a security plugin that does all the heavy lifting for you, and....

The highest rated 5* Security Plugin for WordPress

Shield – highest average 5* rating for any WordPress security plugin (2019/05). See what people are saying here.

It’s 2020 – Don’t settle for just another security plugin. Get smarter security.

You don’t need another 100 email notifications.

You need a security plugin that does all the heavy lifting for you, and only alerts you when you need to know.

And when you get an alert, you actually have steps to take, not just the position of “I have no clue what to do!”

Security for WordPress doesn’t have to be hard

There’s no reason for security to be so darn complicated. It doesn’t have to be this way any longer.

Shield is the easiest security plugin to setup – you simply activate it.

And you can gradually dig deeper, as you’re ready.

Trust: Shield Does Exactly What It Says It Will Do

You’ve probably been let down in the past, but Shield is the WordPress Security solution that does what it says it’ll do – Protect Your Site.

Constant notifications are not okay. You’re already busy!

Receiving constant alerts from your security plugins isn’t “security”. It’s just noise. By the time you receive a notification and respond to it, it’s already too late.

Instead, Shield Security does it what it needs to do, and alerts you if and when you need to informed.

Shield is your Silent Guardian. It doesn’t squawk at you every time a visitor presses against your defenses.

It’ll do its job without moaning at you, and leave you in peace to get on with your job.

You’re not alone, and there’s no risk to test it out.

You can try out Shield alongside any other security plugins, and it comes highly recommended
– it has the highest average rating for any WP Security plugin.

Easy-to-setup, but powerful protection blocks attacks and suspicious activity, but won’t lock you out.

Shield is the must-have, free Security Solution for all your WordPress sites.

Shield Features You’ll Absolutely Love

Beautiful, Easy-To-Use Guided Wizards – help you configure Shield and run scans like a Pro
Limit Login Attempts / Block Automatic Brute-Force Bots – all automatically
Powerful Core File Scanners – automatically detects malicious file changes and hacks you’d never see
Automatic IP Black List – no need for you to manage IPs!
2-Factor Authentication – including Google Authenticator and Email
Block 100% Automated Comments SPAM
Audit Trail & User Activity Logging
reCAPTCHA
Firewall
Security Admin Users
Block REST API / XML-RPC
HTTP Headers
Automatic Updates Control
and much, much more…

Don’t Leave Your Site At Risk
If your site is vulnerable to attack, you’re putting your business and your reputation at serious risk. Getting hacked can mean you’re locked out of your site, client data stolen, your website defaced or offline, and Google will penalise you.

Why take the risk?

Download and install Shield now for FREE so that you have the most powerful WordPress security system working for you and protecting your site.

The New Shield Pro

From November 2017, Shield Security now has a Pro version for those that need to take their Security to the next level.

The Pro Extras:

Exclusive customer email support.

Plugin Vulnerability Scanner.

Plugin / Themes Hack Detection Scanner.

More Frequent Scans – as often as every hour.

Protection for your WooCommerce customers (incl. Easy Digital Downloads & BuddyPress)

Remember-Me 2-Factor Authentication.

Powerful Password Policies.

Import/Export of options across sites.

Improved Audit Trail logging

Exclusive early access to new security features

Text customisations for your visitors.

No manual Pro plugin downloads – we handle this all for you automatically.

No license keys to manage – it’s all automatic!

(coming soon) White Labelling

(coming soon) Statistics and Reporting

(coming soon) Select individual automatic plugin updates

Dedicated Premium Support

The Shield Security team prioritises email technical support over the WordPress.org forums.
Individual, dedicated technical support is only available to customers who have purchased Shield Pro.

Discover all the perks turning your security Pro at our Shield Security store.

Our Mission

All the great features of how Shield protects your sites and your customers data are set out below in detail, but there are a few things about us, that you should know first:

We’re on a mission to liberate people who manage websites from unnecessarily repetitive work, and by 2022 we want to
be saving our clients over 62.5 million hours per year (and we’d love you to join us in our quest)
We have three rules that apply to everything we do, and you’ll see these when you use our products or contact us for help:

We make everything as simple and easy-to-use as possible (and no simpler!).
We’re reliable – we make sure our products do what they promise.
We take ownership for resolving problems – we will solve the problem, or point you towards the solution.

So, read on for the detail, or start protecting yourself, your clients and your clients’ customers immediately by
downloading and installing Shield now

What makes the Shield different?

Powerful free security protection.
Easy-To-Setup User Interface.
It won’t break your website – you’ll never get that horrible,
pit-of-your stomach feeling you get with other security plugins when your website doesn’t load anymore.
Super Admin Security – the only WordPress Security Plugin that protects against tampering.
Exclusive membership to a private security group where you can learn more about WordPress security.

Super Admin Security Protection

The only WordPress security plugin with a WordPress-independent security key to protect itself. more info

Audit Trail Activity Monitor

With the Audit Trail you can review all major actions that have taken place on your WordPress site, by all users.

Firewall Protection

Blocks all web requests to the site that violate the firewall security rules! more info

Brute Force Login Guard and Two-Factor Authentication

Provides effective security against Brute Force Hacking and email based Two-Factor Authenticated login. more info

Comment SPAM (Full replacement and upgrade from Akismet)

Blocks ALL automatic Bot-SPAM, and catches Human Comments SPAM without sending data to 3rd parties or charging subscription fees. more info

FABLE – Fully Automatic Black Listing Engine

No more manual IP Black lists. This plugin handles the blocking of IP addresses for hosts that are naughty.

WordPress Lock Down

Numerous security and protection mechanisms to lock down your WordPress admin area, such as blocking file edits and enforcing SSL.

Automatic Updates

Take back control of your WordPress Automatic Updates.

Login and Identity Security Protection – Stops Brute Force Attacks

Note: Login Guard is a completely independent feature to the Firewall.

With the Login Guard this plugin will single-handedly prevent brute force login attacks on all your WordPress sites.

It doesn’t need IP Address Ban Lists (which are actually useless anyway), and instead puts hard limits on your WordPress site,
and force users to verify themselves when they login.

Three core security features provide layers to protect the WordPress Login system.

Email-based 2-Factor Login Authentication based on IP address! (prevents brute force login attacks)
Login Cooldown Interval – WordPress will only process 1 login per interval in seconds (prevents brute force login attacks)
GASP Anti-Bot Login Form Protection – Adds 2 protection checks for all WordPress login attempts (prevents brute force login attacks using Bots)

These options alone will protect and secure your WordPress sites from nearly all forms of Brute Force login attacks.

And you hardly need to configure anything! Simply check the options to turn them on, set a cooldown interval and you’re instantly protected.

SPAM and Comments Filtering

As of version 1.6, this plugin integrates GASP Spambot Protection.

We have taken this functionality a level further and added the concept of unique, per-page visit, Comment Tokens.

Comment Tokens are unique keys that are created every time a page loads and they are uniquely generated based on 3 factors:

The visitors IP address.
The Page they are viewing
A unique, random number, generated at the time the page is loaded.

This is all handle automatically and your users will not be affected – they’ll still just have a checkbox like the original GASP plugin.

These comment tokens are then embedded in the comment form and must be presented to your WordPress site when a comment is posted. The plugin
will then examine the token, the IP address from which the comment is coming, and page upon which the comment is being posted. They must
all match before the comment is accepted.

Furthermore, we place a cooldown (i.e. you must wait X seconds before you can post using that token) and an expiration on these comment tokens.
The reasons for this are:

Cooldown means that a spambot cannot load a page, read the unique comment token and immediately re-post a comment to that page. It must wait
a while. This has the effect of slowing down the spambots, and, if the spambots get it wrong, they’ve wasted that token – as tokens can only
be used once.
Expirations mean that a spambot cannot get the token and use it whenever it likes, it must use it within the specfied time.

This all combines to make it much more difficult for spambots (and also human spammers as they have to now wait) to work their dirty magic ?

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Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is2454.76 KB
This is more than97%plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.08 s
This is faster than99%plugins

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Average Change

+ 0.08s

/(front page)

- 0.08s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.04s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.22s

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 0.19s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.33s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

- 0.05s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.13s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 0.1s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.67s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.13s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.15s

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Benchmark

Change

Average Change

+ 2454.76KB

/ (front page)

+ 279.09KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 314.23KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 316.47KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 313.85KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 312.45KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 304.11KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 304.9KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 302.54KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 316.22KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 306.85KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 304.59KB

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Database Tables

The plugin has added 17 additional options to your WordPress.

wp_icwp_wpsf_at_logs
wp_icwp_wpsf_at_meta
wp_icwp_wpsf_botsignal
wp_icwp_wpsf_crowdsec_signals
wp_icwp_wpsf_events
wp_icwp_wpsf_file_locker
wp_icwp_wpsf_ip_rules
wp_icwp_wpsf_ips
wp_icwp_wpsf_malware
wp_icwp_wpsf_report
wp_icwp_wpsf_req_logs
wp_icwp_wpsf_resultitem_meta
wp_icwp_wpsf_resultitems
wp_icwp_wpsf_scanitems
wp_icwp_wpsf_scanresults
wp_icwp_wpsf_scans
wp_icwp_wpsf_user_meta

WP-Options

The plugin has added 22 additional options to your WordPress website.

apto-dbs-ready-status
aptoweb_can_trans_confirmed
aptoweb_controller_c5bfaa
icwp_wpsf_admin_access_restriction_options
icwp_wpsf_audit_trail_options
icwp_wpsf_autoupdates_options
icwp_wpsf_commentsfilter_options
icwp_wpsf_events_options
icwp_wpsf_firewall_options
icwp_wpsf_hack_protect_options
icwp_wpsf_headers_options
icwp_wpsf_install_date
icwp_wpsf_ips_options
icwp_wpsf_license_options
icwp_wpsf_lockdown_options
icwp_wpsf_loginprotect_options
icwp_wpsf_plugin_options
icwp_wpsf_shield_site_id
icwp_wpsf_traffic_options
icwp_wpsf_user_management_options
icwp-wpsf-rules
widget_icwp_wpsf_plugin_badge

Errors

Memory Usage

This plugin uses 2454.76KB memory on average, which is more than a plugin should use.

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Error Log

We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.

[17-May-2023 01:48:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Return type of Twig\Node\Node::count() should either be compatible with Countable::count(): int, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /wp-content/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/src/lib/vendor/twig/twig/src/Node/Node.php on line 213
[17-May-2023 01:48:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Return type of Twig\Node\Node::getIterator() should either be compatible with IteratorAggregate::getIterator(): Traversable, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /wp-content/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/src/lib/vendor/twig/twig/src/Node/Node.php on line 221
[17-May-2023 01:49:00 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Return type of Twig\Markup::count() should either be compatible with Countable::count(): int, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /wp-content/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/src/lib/vendor/twig/twig/src/Markup.php on line 38

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