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Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall · Version history

Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall changelog and version history

Latest version
4.23.92
Oct 27, 2026 (12 days ago)
Releases
63
since 2014
In the last year
7
about one every 56 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20141 release
  • 20151 release
  • 20162 releases
  • 20174 releases
  • 20185 releases
  • 20199 releases
  • 20202 releases
  • 20213 releases
  • 202211 releases
  • 20238 releases
  • 20247 releases
  • 20254 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.92Latest

    • Fixed path condition in save_contents function that prevented Brute-Force patch from installing (thank to Sean Dempsey for finding this error).

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.91

    • Fixed CSS display issue in the alignment of the scan path text.
    • Hardened nonce token and removed debug output to prevent stored XSS via CSRF.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 7.1.3 and ClassicPress 2.7.4.

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.90

    • Incremented version number to force update of index file that was missing changes from the last update.

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.89

    • Fixed XSS vulnerability to prevent WP Administrators from inserting script into the REQUEST_URI.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 7.0 and ClassicPress 2.7.

  5. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.88

    • Fixed PHP Object Injection vulnerability with DB Scan.

  6. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.87

    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.9.1 and ClassicPress 2.6.

20254 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.85

    • Fixed the post_status field on custom post type for scan results and added log of all scan errors to the post_meta.

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.83

    • Fixed a missing capability check on an admin-ajax API endpoint.
    • Changed URLs for better compatibility with both HTTPS sites and HTTP sites.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.8.3.

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.81

    • Fixed Scan Settings issue when only one threat type is selected or when only DB Scan is selected.
    • Added debugging with file stats for single directory scans.
    • Fixed some Defined Constants that were causing an error in PHP 8.X.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.8.1.

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.77

    • Added an option to the Brute-Force Login Protection to not use PHP session_start to store the LOGIN_KEY.
    • Updated JavaScript arrays for better efficiency when larger arrays are created.
    • Fixed notice about Passing null to strlen being Deprecated in PHP 8.X.
    • Fixed notice about function _load_textdomain_just_in_time being called incorrectly in WP 6.7 and above.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.8 and ClassicPress 2.4.1.

20247 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.73

    • Added cleanup for old _session files.
    • Fixed hidden files exception to the skip by extention option in last update.
    • Fixed updates to manual session files when PHP sessions are not saves.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.7.1.

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.71

    • Set autoload to false on the large values in wp_option.
    • Added exception to the skip by extention option so that hidden files are never skipped.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.6.2.

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.69

    • Updated Brute-Force Login Protection to integrate better with login forms from other plugins like WP User Manager and StranoWeb Ajax Login.
    • Added option to hide the Brute-Force Login Protection logo on the login page.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.6.

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.68

    • Updated Brute-Force Login Protection to integrate better with login forms from other plugins like WooCommerce and Ultimate Membership.
    • Fixed static wp_posts table name in whitelist query to use the WPDB dynamic table name.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.5.5 and ClassicPress 2.1.1.

  5. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.67

    • Upgraded Brute-Force Login Protection to integrate the JS check on the login form with the session check.
    • Fixed session conflict with REST API and a couple Undefined Variable warnings.
    • Huge improvements to the Quick Scan on the Core Files when Core File Definitions are installed.
    • Added custom Whitelist that skips files you have chosen to ignore.
    • Fixed display of DB threats to properly decode HTML characters.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.5.4 and ClassicPress 2.1.0.

  6. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.57

    • Removed session incompatibilities within the Brute-Force Login Protection that failed when other plugins had already output page headers.

  7. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.23.56

    • Upgraded Brute-Force Login Protection to integrate the JS check on the login form with the session check.
    • Fixed definition update to only allow admin users to post the update, even if a valid nonce token is used.
    • Improved the Nonce tokens to incorperate user_id and context for better security.
    • Limited the Nonce token check to once single token per request for better security, instead of allowing multi-check capabilities with an array.
    • Redesigned Scan History to retain more of the detailed scan results.
    • Fixed usage of incorrect value for REMOTE_ADDR when the server is using a reverse proxy.
    • Added an option to manually recheck the donation status.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.4.3 and ClassicPress 1.7.2.

20238 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.96

    • Fixed another Undefined Index Warning in new installs when no definition updates have been downloaded.
    • Improved timing of registration check and avoided cached results after new registrations are submitted.
    • Added an option to manually recheck the registration status of the site.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.3.1.

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.95

    • Fixed the Undefined Index Warning created in the last release.

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.94

    • Improved error handling for better scan completion.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.3 and ClassicPress 1.6.0.

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.93

    • Fixed the Undefined Index Warning when the Brute-Force Login Protection is invoked in certain situations.
    • Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.2.2 and ClassicPress 1.5.3.

  5. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.92

    • Fixed the Uncaught Value Error when scanning files that use Windows-1252 encoding which is unsupported by the PHP function mb_regex_encoding.
    • Fixed other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.

  6. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.91

    • Fixed some HTML formatting issues.
    • Fixed a JavaScript error in the scan engine that prevented second attempts to scan directories that failed on the first try.

  7. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.90

    • Fixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.

  8. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.89

    • Added more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables.
    • Checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.

202211 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.88

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.87

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.86

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.85

  5. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.84

  6. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.83

  7. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.21.74

  8. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.96

  9. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.95

  10. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.94

  11. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.93

20213 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.92

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.72

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.59

20202 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.19.69

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.19.68

20199 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.19.50

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.19.44

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.76

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.74

  5. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.71

  6. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.69

  7. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.63

  8. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.62

  9. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.18.52

20185 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.69

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.68

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.58

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.57

  5. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 3.07.06

20174 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.44

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 1.3.02.15

  3. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.29

  4. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.17.28

20162 releases

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 1.2.03.23

  2. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.16.17

20151 release

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.15.16

20141 release

  1. Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall 4.14.47

Questions about Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall’s releases

What is the latest version of Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall?

4.23.92, released on Oct 27, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall updated?

7 releases in the last year, about one every 56 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from November 2014.

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