WordPress Security

Cerber Security Professional

Upgrading to Cerber Security Pro not only unlocks the features below but puts you on the upgrade path for unbeatable security features that we’re excited to share in the near future. As of now, our customers get these powerful features and abilities: Cloud-based protection with Global Black List maintained by Cerber Lab. Our cloud [...]


Releases

WP Cerber Security 5.8.6

New features Now you can use regular expressions (REGEX) in the list of prohibited usernames. Specify as many patterns as you need. To specify a REGEX pattern wrap a pattern in two forward slashes like /admin.*/. All comparisons are case-insensitive. Improvements and updates A new checkbox on the Notification tab lets you enable/disable [...]




Releases

WP Cerber Security 5.8

New features Weekly reports. Now the plugin will send a brief performance report (activity for past seven days, antispam performance) to specified email addresses. Weekly reports are sent once a week. Set desired reporting time on the Notification admin page. Improvements and updates REST API: the deprecated rest_enabled filter is used [...]


Development Versions

Development version 5.7.8

While we are working hard on the next version of Cerber Security, we are happy to announce a new development version of the plugin. Give it a shot! New features Weekly reports. Now the plugin will send a brief performance report (activity for past seven days) to specified email addresses. Weekly reports are sent once a week. Set desired [...]


Development Versions

Development version 5.7.2

This development version is addressed to the three minor issues found in v. 5.7. A whitelisted IP can be locked out as a suspicious IP. If a whitelisted IP perform a set of prohibited requests or fail to solve reCAPTCHA multiple times, the IP will locked out as a suspicious IP. After updating the plugin to the 5.7 version the following [...]





Releases

WP Cerber Security 5.5

New features White list for the WordPress anti-spam engine. It allows creating a list of exceptions by specifying a string to search it in a request URI. Cerber anti-spam protects registration form, comment form and tons of other contact forms. White list for REST API requests. It allows creating a list of namespace exceptions if REST [...]



Help

Configuring IP address detection

On some web servers, WP Cerber cannot detect IP addresses automatically due to a non-standard server configuration or running the website behind a reverse proxy. That means WP Cerber is unable to protect your website and can even lock you out of your WordPress dashboard. Is your website behind a proxy? A reverse proxy is a specialized [...]


Releases

WP Cerber Security 5.2

This is a bug fix release. Bugs fixed Hidden custom login URL may be discovered by using specially formatted URL. Thanks to Mick from Australia for reporting this bug. Customization CSS styles don’t work on the Custom login page. Depending on server settings you might get the following messages in Apache’s error.log: PHP [...]


Releases

WP Cerber Security 5.1

New features Anti-spam and anti-bot for contact and other forms. Cerber antispam and bot detection engine now protects all forms on a website. It’s compatible with virtually any form. Tested with Caldera Forms, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms, Fast Secure Contact Form, Contact Form by WPForms. As usual you [...]