{"id":4627,"date":"2009-08-12T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/wordpress-firewall\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:33:31","slug":"wordpress-firewall","status":"closed","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-firewall\/","author":1634663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"1.25 for WP 2.x","stable_tag":"trunk","tested":"2.8","requires":"2.6.1","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Wordpress Firewall","header_author":"SEO Egghead, Inc.","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2017-11-28 18:43:07","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/seoegghead.com\/","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/www.seoegghead.com\/software\/wordpress-firewall.seo","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/www.seoegghead.com\/","rating":5,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":600,"downloads":36595,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":"4"},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":[],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":{"screenshot-1.gif":{"filename":"screenshot-1.gif","revision":"1777169","resolution":"1","location":"plugin"},"screenshot-2.gif":{"filename":"screenshot-2.gif","revision":"1777169","resolution":"2","location":"plugin"}},"screenshots":{"1":"Screenshot 1 (screenshot-1.gif).","2":"Screenshot 2 (screenshot-2.gif)."},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[1174,600],"plugin_category":[54],"plugin_contributors":[78015],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-4627","plugin","type-plugin","status-closed","hentry","plugin_tags-firewall","plugin_tags-security","plugin_category-security-and-spam-protection","plugin_contributors-seoegghead","plugin_committers-seoegghead"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/wordpress-firewall.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/wordpress-firewall\/trunk\/screenshot-1.gif?rev=1777169","caption":"Screenshot 1 (screenshot-1.gif)."},{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/wordpress-firewall\/trunk\/screenshot-2.gif?rev=1777169","caption":"Screenshot 2 (screenshot-2.gif)."}],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>This WordPress plugin investigates web requests with simple WordPress-specific heuristics to identify and stop most obvious attacks. There exist a few powerful generic modules that do this; but they're not always installed on web servers, and difficult to configure.<\/p>\n\n<p>It intelligently whitelists and blacklists pathological-looking phrases based on which field they appear within in a page request (unknown\/numeric parameters vs. known post bodies, comment bodies, etc.). 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