Best security plugins for WordPress
1,823 plugins tagged “security” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.
Only Admins
Down in the last 7 days:4,744#44,203by pcoitinho9 years ago
Only Admins is a minimal plugin that restricts your entire WordPress site to Admins.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SeCWurity WP Login
Down in the last 7 days:3,195#44,218by Selim Şimşek4 months ago
SeCWurity WP Login protects your login page against different attack types...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Privacy
Down in the last 7 days:98#44,222by Justin Eckhouse12 years ago
A simple way to create a private Wordpress blog with htauth.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DisableMU
#44,233by Dave McHale10 years ago
Redefines the location of the /mu-plugins directory to ensure that no code published to the default location will automatically run on your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
No Login User Enumeration
Up in the last 7 days:1,081#44,320by thomaskonrad9 years ago
This plugin to avoids user enumeration in the Wordpress login form. It does so by simply always returning the same error message, no matter whether on …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MAT Firewall
#44,460by matpluginsofficial1 year ago
MAT Firewall is a powerful WordPress security plugin that helps protect your website from malicious attacks, brute force attempts, and unauthorized ac …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Invalidate Logged Out Cookies
Up in the last 7 days:2,398#44,610by laceous16 years ago
This plugin will immediately invalidate your auth cookies when you manually log out.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sentinelo
#44,679by Sentinelotoday
Connects your WordPress site to the Sentinelo maintenance platform: encrypted cloud backups, security scans, updates and uptime monitoring.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 24/day
ELK Security Enforcer
Up in the last 7 days:2,410#44,785by elklab6 years ago
This simple plugin enforces security measures against march 2020 attacks and handles breach notification
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BroodWeb Malware Scanner
Down in the last 7 days:2,699#44,887by Md Jubayer Hossain5 months ago
Scan WordPress files and database content for suspicious code, malware indicators, file integrity changes, login abuse, vulnerabilities, and firewall …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Security By Made I.T.
Down in the last 7 days:5,575#44,992by Made I.T.6 years ago
Secure your WordPress Website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SSO Enforcer for Jetpack
#45,065by andrewcalvo3 days ago
Make WordPress.com sign-in mandatory on sites that use Jetpack SSO. Username and password logins are turned off.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP PLC Swissknife
Down in the last 7 days:5,557#45,100by onePlace6 years ago
A simple and lightweight plugin to enhance performance, stability and security of wordpress
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pirajki Website Advance Security
Down in the last 7 days:624#45,139by Poonam3 months ago
A lightweight, focused security toolkit for WordPress: request firewall, core file integrity checks, malware scanning, and one-click hardening.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ballast Security Hashing
Down in the last 7 days:8#45,222by BallastSecurity14 years ago
This plugin drastically increases the security of the hash used to store passwords
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Logger
Down in the last 7 days:1,111#45,258by mrkhanakia6 years ago
Logs every single request made to your Wordpress website and helps you to tighten security by analyzing the requests made to your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Login Restrict
Down in the last 7 days:3,409#45,307by Skynet Technologies USA LLC7 years ago
For security, it will lock account after number of login attempts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Login With Google reCaptcha For WordPress And Woocomerce
Up in the last 7 days:2,194#45,317by evgeniypoznyak9 years ago
Extended WordPress\Woocomerce Login With Google reCaptcha and hiding user/password errors
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

PLU Redux
#45,323by Jason Cosper5 months ago
Displays the "Last Updated" date and "Tested up to" version for your plugins. Supports WordPress.org and Git Updater plugins.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Define SSL Pages
Up in the last 7 days:2,275#45,419by William P. Davis15 years ago
Allows you to easily require SSL for specific pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Keys Master
Down in the last 7 days:10,561#45,428by Pierre Lannoy2 months ago
Powerful application passwords manager for WordPress with role-based usage control and full analytics reporting capabilities.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

A.N.R.GHG Publishing Toolkit
#45,468by ANRGHG9 months ago
Among the Swiss Army knives completing WordPress, this one helps reduce GHG, as it is AMP compatible while providing various features.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Authors as Taxonomy
Down in the last 7 days:2,625#45,588by Mark-k9 years ago
Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy for it.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
security-txt
Up in the last 7 days:1,969#45,588by Tyler Stokes3 years ago
A plugin for serving 'security.txt' in WordPress 6.1.1+.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ScaleEngine Virtual Usher
Up in the last 7 days:1,970#45,606by stefancaunter7 years ago
ScaleEngine Virtual Usher Video Security Plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ultimate WP Filter
Up in the last 7 days:1,971#45,618by faleddo11 years ago
A lighweight filtering plugin that will censor explicit words automatically by replacing them with asterik(*) characters in many language and user-def …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dynamic Functionalities
#45,651by Gaurav Tiwari1 month ago
19 optional WordPress modules for content tools, link checks, site activity, performance, security, redirects, and SEO.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMU Block Spam By Math
Down in the last 7 days:10,343#45,654by jwpegram16 years ago
This plugin protects your WPMU signup process against spambots with a simple math question.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Expire Passwords
#45,700by rob.divincenzo13 years ago
This plugin allows you to set passwords to expire every X amount of days (default is 90) and to expire all non-admin user passwords (requiring new uni …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SiteSignal
#45,758by sitesignal10 months ago
SiteSignal WordPress connector for AI visibility, website health, performance monitoring, and technical audits.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Mail-Validator
Up in the last 7 days:1,543#45,789by kimpenhaus6 years ago
WP-Mail-Validator is an anti-spam plugin. It provides mail-address validation in 5 ways:
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hellō Login
Down in the last 7 days:6,456#45,864by Marius Scurtescu3 years ago
Free and simple to setup plugin provides registration and login with the Hellō Wallet. Users choose from popular social login, email, or phone.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Luketom Compromise Review
#45,886by lukehutton2 months ago
Incident-focused safeguards for a multi-site WordPress estate.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP REST API Security
Down in the last 7 days:8,266#45,894by invisnet7 years ago
Provides a UI to control which REST API endpoints are enabled and which require authentication.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Hetjens Registered Only
Up in the last 7 days:1,562#45,930by S Hetjens10 years ago
This plug-in restricts the access to blog and feed. Visitors need to login before accessing the blog. It offers a private feed for every user.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wp-deadorxp
#46,012by Stocker_jp12 years ago
Windows XP利用者に警告を表示するプラグインです。 This plugin displays warning on Windows XP user.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Post Reminder
Down in the last 7 days:848#46,064by Shawn17 years ago
You should never publish posts from your admin account. An alert is displayed, informing the user they're logged in as admin and not to write pos …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pro-Link Login Protection with Turnstile
Down in the last 7 days:18#46,184by Pro-Link.pl5 months ago
Protect your WordPress login and admin area using Cloudflare Turnstile, a modern CAPTCHA alternative.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Password Security
Down in the last 7 days:9,312#46,264by Fernando Claussen8 years ago
Force your administrators to update their password after a set amount of time.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Role Based Access Manager
Down in the last 7 days:1,231#46,317by muis IT5 years ago
Role Based Access Management for Media files (attachments).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Secure Password Generator
#46,456by oakcreekdev3 years ago
Adds a secure password generator to your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

TREZOR Connect Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:24#46,461by SatoshiLabs11 years ago
This plugin enables Wordpress Login via TREZOR Connect service.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Authorize IP Address
Down in the last 7 days:1,292#46,550by jovevskitoni9 years ago
Authorize IP Address prevent login from unknown IP address. Whitelist User IP addresses. If a user logs in from an unknown IP the plugin sends an ema …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Houdini
Up in the last 7 days:1,786#46,560by PressPage Entertainment Inc6 years ago
Provides a method to copy protect your webpages from plagiarism and content theft.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
adCAPTCHA for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:2,478#46,579by adCAPTCHA1 year ago
Secure your site. Elevate your brand. Boost Ad Revenue.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CloudScale Cyber & DevTools
Down in the last 7 days:16,997#46,594by andrewjbaker3 days ago
Secure your WordPress site without an IT team. Free firewall, two-factor, passkeys and AI audits, with plain-language insights and simple fixes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 87/day

Bolcal Anti Spam
Up in the last 7 days:40#46,666by BOLCAL6 months ago
Free anti-spam protection for WooCommerce, WordPress registration forms, and Contact Form 7 forms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Secure Content
Down in the last 7 days:378#46,681by Ajanth Rajendran11 years ago
A plug-in to secure your website content and images from copying and provide maximum content security.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Login and Admin URLs (CLAU)
#46,717by Vitor Carvalho14 years ago
AVOID TO USE THIS PLUGIN! Change wp-admin and wp-login URL to any of your choice. Security by obscurity!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SpoofProof
Down in the last 7 days:1,118#46,760by ciphertooth10 years ago
SpoofProof alters the WP login screen using a web service to verify that you are not being attacked by spoofing, phishing, or Man in the middle.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day