by WPChef 5 (4 reviews)

Protection Against DDoS

Name: Protection Against DDoS
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
Author: WPChef

Protects your login, xmlrpc and RSS feeds pages against DDoS attacks. Denies access to your site from certain countries via CloudFlare.

Protection Against DDoS ranks #4,039 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #133 of 1,583 in the Authentication category, a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews, and was last updated Apr 29, 2020. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 5.4 (Current: 7.1)

v1.5.2 Current Version v1.5.2

Updated 6 years ago Last Update on 29 Apr, 2020

Refreshed 15 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#133 of 1,583 in Authentication Top 5% by installs Downloads -23.3% this week No update in over a year

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.5.2
Last Updated: Apr 29, 2020
Requires WP: 3.5.2+
Tested Up To: 5.4
PHP Version: N/A
Author: WPChef

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 4
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who need to defend against brute force and DDoS-style traffic on login, xmlrpc, and RSS feed pages. It blocks malicious requests at the web server level via .htaccess before they reach WordPress, and lets CloudFlare users allow or deny visitors from specific countries.

Blocks brute force login attacks
Denies access to xmlrpc
Denies access to RSS feeds
CloudFlare country-based access control
htaccess-level request blocking
Custom redirect for blocked requests
Multisite compatible
Compatible with other security plugins

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Protection Against DDoS

The plugin starts working right after you install it. It utilizes a very simple idea: when a real user accesses the login page, the plugin sets a validation cookie for this user. After the user submitted the log in form, the plugin checks if the cookie is there and correct. If so, the user is allowed to log in. Otherwise the user gets bounced off. Since malicious bots attack the WordPress login page directly, they don't get the protection cookie and hence always get bounced off. Moreover validation happens at the server level BEFORE WordPress is even accessed (via .htaccess file) and hence no load is directed to the WordPress at all. The secure cookie is encrypted and unique for every site so the bots can't falsify it. Simple and effective!

This plugin protects against DDoS CAUSED by brute-force attacks ONLY. This is the most common cause for an operational WordPress site to be down though. If your site is under attack for other reasons (for example if you got a lot of traffic to one of your posts) this plugin will not help!

This plugin only works on the servers that support .htaccess files. Most Linux servers do.