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Why is WordPress security hardening necessary?

WordPress is probably the most popular and widely used content management system (CMS) in the world. It powers more than 40% of all websites on the internet. However, this also makes it a target for malicious actors who want to exploit any vulnerabilities they can find.

Security hardening of WordPress means taking precautionary and preventive steps to lock down your WordPress website and make it more resistant to attacks. This will significantly reduce the risk of your WordPress installation falling victim to hacking or malware.

There are many benefits to security hardening of WordPress, such as:

Complying with legal regulations and industry standards for data protection and privacy by ensuring that your website follows best practices for security.
Enhancing your website performance, speed, reliability, and user experience by reducing the risk of downtime, errors, slow loading times, etc.
Improving your website reputation, trustworthiness, SEO ranking, and traffic by avoiding blacklisting by search engines or browsers due to security issues.
Complying with legal regulations and industry standards for data protection and privacy by ensuring that your website follows best practices for security.

WordPress is vulnerable

WordPress is a vast open-source ecosystem with thousands of different components. The cost of this flexibility is security, as all the code in the plugins and themes cannot be controlled by the WordPress core team and introduces vulnerabilities into the system.

Your WordPress website is constantly being attacked by hackers, malware and bots. Most attacks are automated, repeatedly scanning your website for any weaknesses or vulnerabilities. If you don’t carefully secure your site, you will almost certainly get hacked sooner rather than later.

99.42% of the vulnerabilities within the WordPress ecosystem are due to plugins and themes. 42% of all WordPress sites have at least one vulnerable component installed.

Whats the biggest WordPress security vulnerability

Advanced 3-level protection for WordPress

Level 1: Security foundation. Firewall, malware scanner and automatic updates. This is the minimum level of security any website should have.
Level 2: Firewall, malware scanner, automatic updates, Patchstack and backups. Level 2 includes Patchstack, a plugin- and theme vulnerability detection system.
Level 3: Firewall, malware scanner, automatic updates, Patchstack, backups, CrowdSec and hosting. For those who want the best in security. Includes CrowdSec and hosting.

What more is included?

The 3-level protection approach outlined above is enough to prevent almost any attack on WordPress installations, however there are cases when services must be accessible from the outside and further hardening is necessary.

The steps outlined below are the basics of WordPress security and should be done on any installation.

A comprehensive review of your plugins and themes to uncover any vulnerabilities.
An inspection and checksum test of all WordPress core files to ensure they are authentic and haven’t been tampered with.
Inspect and correct all user, group, and file permissions in your WordPress directory.
A review of your user and password policies, including admin user accounts.
Set up your system to limit the number of login attempts, stopping brute-force attacks.
Disable unsafe and unnecessary WordPress functions such as XML RPC access, and username enumeration.
Install a secure SSL encryption certificate, and redirect HTTP to HTTPS on all website resources.
Add all recommended HTTP security headers, including the HTTP Strict Transport Security header (A+ security score).
Update WordPress core, themes, and plugins as well as PHP to the latest versions.
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