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.
SR WORKS ArmorPro
Up in the last 7 days:715#61,956by SRWorks LLC1 month ago
Free WordPress security: WAF, firewall, brute force protection, two-factor authentication, passkeys, country blocking, and security headers.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

WP Vulnerable Updates
#61,971by Thamaraiselvam8 years ago
WP vulnerable updates is an automated Vulnerable checking plugin in real time and alert you if any vulnerable updates found on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Activity Lens
#61,991by Spidawebs1 year ago
Log user and post activities in a separate database for performance and compliance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

VigiGuard Security
Up in the last 7 days:711#61,999by Kashif Ahmed Khan8 months ago
Simple one-click WordPress security. Protect your site in 30 seconds.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Encode Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:3,476#62,014by Julien MA Jacob7 years ago
Protect email address in your website against spam with shortcode like this : [encode email="hello@mail.fr"]My text to encode[/encode]
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ZA Creative Login Shield
Down in the last 7 days:11,303#62,052by Sipho Nhlapo2 months ago
Enterprise WordPress login security with 2FA, WebAuthn passkeys, risk scoring, analytics, file integrity, and vulnerability scanning.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ironfang Security
Down in the last 7 days:2,793#62,060by ironfang11 days ago
Security configuration checks for WordPress, with clear evidence and guidance. Checks run on your site and do not send information to Ironfang.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Katorymnd Contact Form
Down in the last 7 days:5,062#62,064by Raymond11 months ago
Katorymnd Contact Form is a simple but secure contact form Verified and ready to use.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LoginEase
#62,106by Killian Santos9 months ago
Passwordless login via secure magic links on the WordPress login form.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CyberNote Security Checker
#62,108by teeeda11294 months ago
Diagnoses WordPress security settings and version status, presenting plain-language improvement steps in Japanese. No external requests. Lightweight.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Mcpelee Site Security Guard
#62,141by DongHa16 days ago
Manage IP and country access rules, static error redirects, security logs, login protection, and file change monitoring.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

FP Site Security
Up in the last 7 days:3,390#62,148by Joseph Mendez4 months ago
Lightweight WordPress security: login defense, firewall, malware scans, file monitoring, and local backups — all running on your own site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
007AJ Security Scanner & Firewall
Up in the last 7 days:9,970#62,156by 007AJ.com12 days ago
Login lockout, a lightweight firewall, a core file integrity scan, hardening switches and an activity log, running on your own server.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
ARS Vigilo Sessions
Up in the last 7 days:9,985#62,184by arjitsri1 month ago
Track and display the last login date and time of WordPress users, with session history, geolocation, idle auto-logout, and an admin dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PIIP
#62,210by miya1 month ago
Automatically detects and masks PII in WordPress comments and forms to protect user privacy and support your GDPR compliance efforts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Agentic Daisy AI Agent Firewall
#62,238by agenticdaisy18 days ago
AI agent firewall for MCP and the Abilities API: hold risky agent writes for your approval, audit every action, and undo mistakes in one click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Scinorx Site Risk Snapshot
Up in the last 7 days:9,423#62,271by Scinorx Technologies Inc3 months ago
Review WordPress maintenance risk signals, inactive extensions, update visibility, admin count, and hardening basics.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Solutiontech Seguridad de acceso
Down in the last 7 days:7,212#62,274by solutiontechcl14 days ago
Protects WordPress access with custom login URL, Micro-WAF, 2FA, IP control, brute force protection, core integrity, and local audit logs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
pars-optimizer
#62,280by Pars Host Developer Team5 months ago
pars-optimizer is a comprehensive optimization plugin designed to speed up your website, enhance security, and beautify your WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

My Trail Camera
#62,310by Viktor Cech6 months ago
Trail camera management with anti-theft protection. Hidden HTML files on SD cards track and help recover stolen trail cameras.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LC Anti-Spam Registration
Down in the last 7 days:7,212#62,332by Celsius Anderson1 month ago
Prevent fake and automated bot registrations with lightweight honeypots, rate limiting, and intelligent username analysis.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Security Made Easy
Up in the last 7 days:5,842#62,333by VeryEasy1 year ago
A set and forget solution for WordPress security.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TechDex Search Scrape Guard
Up in the last 7 days:215#62,334by Dexter Nelson3 months ago
Protects the public WordPress search feature from spam, automated abuse, deep pagination, and excessive search activity.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Codevera AI Access Control
Down in the last 7 days:3,564#62,339by codevera6 months ago
Decide which plugins are allowed to expose their abilities to the WordPress AI feature. Block any plugin, or any single ability, with one click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Nivoli Edge
#62,677by calimonk3 days ago
Free security check, one-click hardening and a login-code audit for WordPress. Add the managed edge to refuse attacks before they reach PHP.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

NeverLast Security Lite
#62,677by neverlast16 days ago
Local-first WordPress security: bounded firewall, login controls, administrator TOTP, health checks, integrity evidence and activity logs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Arabdown Permissions
Down in the last 7 days:2,467#62,750by asemalkamel3 months ago
Visual control over what each user role sees in WordPress: hide admin menus, plugins, widgets, and admin-bar items per role — with toggles, no code.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hardened Clean
Down in the last 7 days:6,075#62,771by Janos Moga4 years ago
Lightweight protection to and cleaning of your Wordpress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SiteMedic Rescue Toolkit
#62,794by prakashghai4 months ago
Diagnose and safely repair WordPress issues with site health, debug, security, cleanup, and recovery tools.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Vyntic Guard
#62,798by Vynatics2 months ago
Security plugin with malware scanning, brute-force protection, login security, IP blocking, activity logs, hardening, and custom login URLs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Clicks Site Monitoring and Audit Logs
Up in the last 7 days:7,439#62,802by sykologicist3 months ago
Monitor WP-Cron jobs, log PHP errors, and track user activity with real-time alerts to Slack, Discord, or email. Zero telemetry.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simbe AI Website Care
Down in the last 7 days:8,270#62,807by simbe11 month ago
Monitor plugins and themes for vulnerabilities, get email alerts, and check common issues. Built for freelancers and agencies managing many sites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OpsGate
#62,827by opsgate1 month ago
WordPress operational intelligence: know what is happening across your sites, what needs attention, and what to do next.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SeoNova Bot Radar
#62,852by edison722 days ago
Bot traffic radar: who visits your site, what they are after, and what they cost you in money.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 60/day

MDI Spam Sheriff (for GravityForms)
Up in the last 7 days:4,620#62,868by Medium Interactive2 months ago
Blocks spam on Gravity Forms by checking every submitted email domain's registration age via RDAP; recently-registered domains are blocked.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WPG Shield
#62,919by Rakesh Raja3 days ago
WordPress security and firewall plugin: malware scanner, 2FA login protection, brute force lockout, wp-config hardening and headers, verified.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 47/day
Cloudusk Captcha
#62,923by cloudusk2 months ago
Cloudusk Captcha provides a lightweight, developer-friendly CAPTCHA integration for WordPress sites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
UniverWP
Up in the last 7 days:8,646#62,943by 7bar2 years ago
Univerwp is a plugin, as a framework, that aims to extend WordPress in various area: security, performance and additional features.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ultimate Auditor
#62,973by Mayank Majeji1 month ago
Audit your installed WordPress plugins for security, code quality, and standards issues, all from your WordPress admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rapid2004 SH
Up in the last 7 days:10,562#62,977by rapid200421 days ago
Lightweight WordPress protection tool. Removes generator version leaks, filters login authentication errors, and updates the local admin footer text.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Datametric Login Shield
Down in the last 7 days:3,709#62,991by Ridvan Bilgin3 months ago
Hide your WordPress login URL and block access to wp-login.php and the wp-admin directory for logged-out visitors.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pinery Static
#63,000by amgoodman10 days ago
Export WordPress to a fast static site on Cloudflare Pages in pure PHP — no Node.js, no build server. Incremental deploys, SEO intact.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Kistn API Client
#63,025by Christian Doebler2 months ago
Pushes installed plugin and theme inventory to the Kistn API for vulnerability monitoring.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WM Secure and Optimize
Down in the last 7 days:4,160#63,056by Selvakumaran Krishnan3 years ago
One place for site security and site performance. Secure and optimize your site to perform better. WM Secure and Optimize
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Passwordless X1280
#63,117by Passwordless Alliance3 months ago
Passwordless login for WordPress with smartphone biometrics and mutual authentication, based on the ITU-T X.1280 international standard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Numvra User Activity Log
#63,130by numvra2 months ago
Records who did what on the site — content published or deleted, users created, roles changed, plugins switched — with the IP it came from.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
LungoTech IP Guard
Up in the last 7 days:8,169#63,132by ltechid3 months ago
Enterprise-grade .htaccess IP blocker with automated temporary IP purging, CIDR range support, and a modern UI.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Takumi Private Gate
Up in the last 7 days:5,673#63,153by yoshiromoriyama1 month ago
Lock down your private WordPress site. Force login for all visitors, block REST API and XML-RPC, and lock out repeated failed login attempts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BlockGlow
#63,155by Mary Rose Elbambo21 days ago
Enhance, optimize, and protect your WordPress website with block-level CSS customization, performance tools, and security features.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SaniGlyph SVG
Down in the last 7 days:11,997#63,231by shahidirfan10018 days ago
Fail-closed SVG validation that preserves approved artwork, with role controls, Media Library previews, and securely escaped inline output.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day