Cloudflare add-on for WP Cerber
This optional add-on brings an additional security measure for your WordPress by providing integration with the Cloudflare cloud-based firewall. When enabled, it adds and removes IP addresses blocked by WP Cerber to and from the Cloudflare IP Access Rules continuously. This prevents malicious IP addresses from accessing the entire [...]
Development version 8.5.9.1
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, we’re committed to developing new versions of the plugin and supporting our customers. This version of WP Cerber brings integration with the Cloudflare firewall. It’s implemented as a special WP Cerber add-on and available to download for free from our website. The Cloudflare add-on is a [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.5.9
This version adds several minor features, improvements and bug fixes. It also has been updated and tested to fully support and be compatible with PHP 7.4. On the Live Traffic log, now you can search and filter out requests with software errors if they occurred. Two new fields in the Advanced Search form allow you to either search a [...]
Troubleshooting malware scanner issues
If you come across an issue with the malware scanner, your go-to tool is diagnostic logging. Normally and by default it’s disabled. 1. Enable diagnostic logging in the scanner settings To do this, click the “Site Integrity” menu and then click the “Settings” tab, turn on “Enable diagnostic [...]
Browser cookies set by WP Cerber
When WP Cerber is installed on your website it can generate and set several browser cookies with the sole purpose of securing your website by detecting and mitigating malicious activity. All these cookies have randomly generated names and contain randomly generated values. No personal or sensitive data is stored in the cookies. Those [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.5.8
The minimum supported PHP version now is 5.5. Later this year it will be set to 5.6. If you’re still on 5.x versions of PHP, we strongly encourage you to update PHP to at least PHP 7.2. Why do you need to do that? Web servers running older versions of PHP may be exposed to unpatched security vulnerabilities in the PHP core or [...]
Deleting personal data
Depending on configuration during its normal operations WP Cerber can accumulate information in the website database. This information can be considered as personal data in terms of applicable privacy law (such as GDPR). All that data can be deleted as well as exported by a user request from within the WordPress dashboard with easy, no [...]
Optimizing export performance
If you come across an issue with exporting a large number of activity events or the traffic log entries and so you’re unable to download the CSV file, you can tweak the plugin export mechanism. When WP Cerber creates an export file, it does it in several iterations, meaning it splits all the rows retrieved from the database into [...]
Exporting personal data from logs
Depending on configuration during its normal operations WP Cerber can accumulate information in the website database. This information can be considered as personal data in terms of applicable privacy law (such as GDPR). All that data can be exported by a user request or deleted from within the WordPress dashboard with easy, no database [...]
How to safely reinstall WordPress
Reinstalling WordPress is useful if some files were altered or missing, it’s a safe way to fix security issues with WordPress files. In the vertical WordPress admin menu click “Dashboard”, then the “Updates” submenu. It takes you to the “WordPress Updates” admin page as shown below. Click the [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.5.6
What’s new Now you can separately set the number of days of keeping log records in the database for authenticated (logged in) website users and non-authenticated (not logged in) visitors. These settings are configured for both the activity log and the live traffic log separately too. Improvements and updates You can completely turn [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.5.5
To make the protection of WordPress stronger, we have to strengthen Cerber’s algorithms regularly. This version of WP Cerber brings a whole lot of small improvements and optimizations to the plugin code; most noticeable are listed below. New features IP Access Lists now support IPv6 networks, ranges, and wildcards. Add as many [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.5.3
What makes a reliable and effective security solution? Always improving and moving forward. Always staying ahead of the game. This release brings several improvements, bug fixes, and code optimizations. It also brings compatibility with the upcoming WordPress 5.3. Integrity checker and malware scanner The scanner window has got a new [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.5
This version brings a lot of updates and code improvements. Most of them are under the hood. New features A new Data Shield module for advanced protection of user data and vital settings in the website database. Available in the PRO version. Improvements Compatibility with WooCommerce significantly improved. Strict filtering for the [...]
WP Cerber Security 8.4
Today’s cybersecurity landscape is changing and cybercrime is evolving. So it’s crucial to constantly improve our security arsenal. Every new release we make WP Cerber even stronger implementing multiple improvements to its security algorithms, some of them are visible, some of them are hidden under the hood. More flexible [...]