How to avo id secur i ty b reach in your

WordPress website?

• No doubt that today world’s greatest content management

system is WordPress . More than 75 million websites built on

WordPress till now and nearly 6 new posts / blogs are

published every second.

• WordPress is most popular business website today because it is,

^ Open source

^ Easy to access and manage

^ More theme and plugin options

^ SEO friendly

^ Blog

• Over 29 thousand plugins developed, 98 versions and 75

million websites runs on WordPress. There are chances of

websites are vulnerable to security attacks.

Introduction

Protect you login

Secure wp-config.php

Secure wp-content directory

Block search engine spiders in admin

Protect .htacess file

Install SSL certificate

Other Best Practices

How to avoid security breach:

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Strong user name and password: 8% of the total website is

being hacked due to weaker password. I recommend having

strong password with pattern as upper/lower keys, numbers

and symbols. Something like “catchSahara12!@”. Keep

changing it every 60 days.

Limit login attempts: Limit the number of failed login

attempts and restrict IP after that. By blocking access to wp-

login.php we can block unauthorized users, for this you need

to edit .htacess file.

Delete Inactive User accounts

Update WordPress version, Themes and Plugins

Exploits may occur within days, its necessary to keep

wordpress version, themes and plugins up to date.

Protect you login:

All the keys and access information will be in wp-config.php

file. By editing .htacess file in the root directory of wordpress

we can secure wp-config.php. The following code denies

everyone access to the wp-config.php file,

# protect wp-config.php

<files wp-config.php>

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

</files>

You can also add wordpress authentication keys to wp-

config.php it helps better encryption of user data.

Secure wp-config.php:

Specific users should only able to access specific files types

within this directory. This file type includes .jpeg, .gif, .png, .js,

.css, .xml. You need to limit the access, below code with help

to allow access only to pictures, Javascripts, CSS and XML files

not other data. This code should be implemented in .htacess

file within the wp-content folder.

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

<Files ~ “.(xml|css|jpe?g|png|gif|js)$”>

Allow from all

</Files>

Secure wp-content directory:

You should not index the admin section otherwise search

engine spiders crawl over your entire content unless they are

told no to do so. To prevent wordpress hack from blocking

spiders from indexing, create a robots.txt file in root directory

with following code,

#

User-agent: *

Disallow: /cgi-bin

Disallow: /wp-admin

Disallow: /wp-includes

Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

Disallow: /wp-content/cache/

Disallow: /wp-content/themes/

Disallow: */trackback/

Disallow: */feed/

Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$

Disallow: /category/*

Block search engine spiders in admin:

.htaccess files are used to specify the security restrictions for the

particular directory. Hypertext access allow for decentralized

management of configuration when placed inside the web tree.

To avoid .htaccess hacks include the below code in domain root

.htaccess file.

# STRONG HTACCESS PROTECTION</code>

<Files ~ “^.*\.([Hh][Tt][Aa])”>

order allow,deny

deny from all

satisfy all

</Files>

Protect .htacess file:

It allows you to login securely via https. This encrypts the data

you and users to your site transfer via the site, such as when

submitting contact forms or using login in pages. Otherwise, data

is transferred like a postcard in the mail, meaning anyone who’s

looking can read it.

If you want to use HTTPS when logging into your WordPress

dashboard, then you can use one of the codes below and add

them to wp-config.php.

define(‘FORCE_SSL_LOGIN’, true);

The code above forces WordPress to use SSL when logging into

your administration panel but only when logging in. It does not

enforce the use of SSL while using your dashboard.

Instead of doing this manually you can also just add a plugin like

WordPress HTTPS (SSL)

Install SSL certificate:

Backup your files on regular basis

Install WP Security Scan

Change table prefix

Prevent directory browsing

Prevent script injection

Proper server without any virus

Don’t login in public wifi networks

Use secure hosting

Hide dashboard login errors

Install WP firewall

Use SSH instead of FTP…

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