WPMU Dev Defender Pro is a premium security plugin designed for WordPress, integrating a variety of powerful security features, including malware file scanning, firewall protection, login protection, and IP blocking. This plugin effectively defends against hacker attacks, malicious bot intrusions, and other security threats, ensuring the safety of your website data.
Defender Pro has real-time monitoring capabilities that can promptly detect and address potential security threats. Its powerful firewall feature can block malicious traffic from entering your site, while the malware file scanning function regularly checks your website files to ensure no malicious code is implanted.
Additionally, Defender Pro offers login protection features that effectively prevent brute force attacks. By setting up IP blocking, you can prevent specific IP addresses from accessing your site, further enhancing security.
This plugin is suitable for all WordPress websites, whether personal blogs or corporate websites, allowing comprehensive security protection through Defender Pro. The plugin is continually updated to ensure that security protection remains at its best.
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The update log for the WPMU Dev Defender Pro plugin is as follows:
April 7, 2025 - v5.2
Added: Session protection
Enhanced: Compatibility with WordPress 6.8
Enhanced: Added toggle to block popular spam/malicious user agents
Enhanced: Removed Semrush and Ahrefs from the default user agent blacklist
Enhanced: Improved the wpdef_sec_key_gen cron process on multisite
Enhanced: Updated malware signatures to detect suspicious code
Enhanced: Improved the isolation process when upgrading from the free version to the pro version
Enhanced: Improved the class representing vulnerability results
Enhanced: Improved the trusted IP popup process
Fixed: Bypassed hidden login URL using encoded characters
Fixed: Audit log displayed incorrect time= v5.1.1 (March 3, 2025) =
- Enhancement: Improved cron events for AntiBot global firewall on multisite
- Enhancement: Removed manual 'All Headers' option and migrated to automatic IP detection for improved compatibility and security
- Enhancement: Updated User Agent logic for AntiBot service to better detect potential threatsVersion 5.1
New Features:
- Enforce strong password usage
- Manage all password-related settings in one place
- Improved locking mechanism
- Upgraded plugin package
- Support for Unit servers
- Translation improvements
- Enhanced IP lock redirection when users add IPs to the whitelist
- Created a new cookie to avoid locked cache in Hummingbird plugin
- Updated minimum supported WordPress version
- Enabled plugin and suspicious code scanning by default in new installations
- Improved Malware_Result class
- Minor code improvementsFixes:
- Defender unable to detect vulnerable themes
- Errors when pfsockopen function is disabled
- AntiBot page displays NaN when changing language to German in dashboard plugin
- Forms unable to submit if Google reCAPTCHA is enabled in both Defender and Forminator plugins
- Malware Scanner highlights WordPress core files on IIS servers
- Database errors related to AntiBot functionality
- Display salt key before open php tag
- Google reCAPTCHA compact style not working= v5.0.2 (2025-02-14) =
- Optimization: Updated 404 logic using AntiBot service to better detect and mitigate potential threats
- Optimization: Enhanced IP detection in Defender to prevent blocking server IPsJanuary 31, 2025 - Version 5.0.1
Fixes: AntiBot service synchronization issues
Fixes: Inconsistent AntiBot toggle behavior when managed on Hub
Fixes: Improved tracking usageJanuary 27, 2025 - Version 5
New: AntiBot Global Firewall
Enhanced: The global IP blocker has been renamed to Central IP List and is located under Local Firewall
Enhanced: Prevent executing CREATE TABLE queries on every page load
Enhanced: Scan lines for suspicious code will still appear even after files are deleted
Enhanced: Updated WPMU DEV IP Management
Enhanced: Display vulnerability details for professional plugin versions
Enhanced: Improved tracking usage
Fixed: Error when uninstalling Defender
Fixed: Misuse of WPMU DEV dashboard settings function
Fixed: Issue with SUI warnings appearing when attempting to perform actions on files detected by malware scan
Fixed: PHP notices appearing in logs when running malware scans