
Wordfence Premium is a powerful security plugin designed to protect WordPress websites against a variety of cyber threats. It has been downloaded more than any other security plugin available on the platform, which is a testament to its effectiveness and popularity.
The plugin is powered by the Threat Defense Feed, which is continuously updated with the latest security information and is used by the Wordfence Firewall to block hackers and other malicious entities from accessing your website. This helps prevent attacks such as brute force login attempts and malicious bots from penetrating your website’s defences.
In addition to the firewall, the Wordfence Scan feature uses the same proprietary feed to quickly alert you if your website has been compromised. This helps you take immediate action to minimize the damage and prevent further attacks.
Wordfence Premium also offers a Live Traffic view, which gives you real-time visibility into the traffic and hack attempts on your website. This can be used to identify potential threats and take appropriate measures to mitigate them.
Core Features of Wordfence Premium Plugin
- Threat Defense Feed: Constantly updated feed that provides the latest security information to the plugin’s firewall and scan features.
- Firewall: Blocks hackers and other malicious entities from accessing your website by identifying and stopping malicious traffic before it reaches your site.
- Scan: Uses the Threat Defense Feed to quickly alert you if your website has been compromised, allowing you to take immediate action to minimize damage and prevent further attacks.
- Live Traffic View: Provides real-time visibility into the traffic and hack attempts on your website, allowing you to identify potential threats and take appropriate measures to mitigate them.
- Additional Tools: A comprehensive set of additional tools that further enhance the security of your website, such as Two-Factor Authentication, Login Security, and Country Blocking.
- Malware Scanner: Scans your website files for malware and other security threats, allowing you to identify and remove any malicious code.
- Advanced Blocking: Allows you to block specific IP addresses, countries, and user agents to prevent them from accessing your website.
- Login Security: Provides advanced login security options to protect against brute force attacks and other login-related threats.
- Two-Factor Authentication: Provides an additional layer of security to your website login process by requiring a second authentication factor in addition to your password.
- Email Alerts: Sends email alerts to notify you of any security threats or issues detected on your website.
- Support: Offers world-class support to help you troubleshoot and resolve any security issues you may encounter on your website.
What’s New (Changelog) in Wordfence Premium
8.0.3 – January 15, 2025
* Improvement: Added support for hosts relocating the WAF’s auto-prepend file via the constant/envvar WORDFENCE_WAF_PREPEND_DIRECTORY.
* Improvement: Added detection for non-repo plugins and themes to avoid the scanner reporting changes when the same slug + version exists within the wordpress.org repository.
* Improvement: Messaging for Central disconnections now better reflects the user making the change.
* Improvement: Scan errors due to unreachable Wordfence servers will now provide a link to our status page to check for outages.
* Improvement: Reduced the number of network calls created to sync scan issues when updates are performed in bulk.
* Change: Reworked setting caching to avoid issues with some object caches.
* Change: Reworked cURL check to avoid using WP_Http_Curl, which has been deprecated.
* Fix: Normalized all [wordfence.com](http://wordfence.com) links to be https.
* Fix: Fixed a rare error that could occur on the diagnostics page when displaying a list of error logs.
* Fix: Removed the “back to top” button and related script block from emailed diagnostics.
* Fix: Fixed some UI coloring that did not correctly reflect the license type in use.