The free WPMUDEV Defender plugin now has a 12-hour-delayed blacklist definitions included!

[Toby Cryns]

Hi WP peeps!  I saw this news and thought y'all might be curious:

• WPMUDEV's Defender plugin now includes access to a 12-hour-delayed firewall.  https://wpmudev.com/blog/block-malicious-ips-with-antibot-global-firewall/
• The free version of WordFence has a 30-day delay, by comparison.  

I don't think I'll switch over to Defender quite yet, however, the lack of a firewall like this was the one thing that kept me from using that plugin previously...  

Toby

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[Barbara Schendel-Kent]

Hey Toby! Thanks for the info. Any idea how this compares to what comes with the free Cloudflare firewall?

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[Toby Cryns]

Hi Barbara!  Good question.  It would be interesting to see how much traffic makes it through Cloudflare's firewall and then later gets hung up on the WP plugin firewall...

Toby

[Nick Ciske]

The CloudFlare (free) firewall is OWASP and other common vulnerabilities to all web apps. You can configure some custom rules to block common attack vectors / abusive bots / countries / etc. but out of the box it provides only a basic level of protection.

I don't think it handles many WP specific issues like WordFence / PatchStack / Defender do — even if so, certainly not on the same timeline.

CF can auto patch common vulnerable JS library vulnerabilities if that setting is on and the proxy is enabled.

The gist: They work quite well together… so run both (even if it’s just WordFence free).

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