by Brandon Allen 5 (15 reviews)

WP Fail2Ban Redux

Name: WP Fail2Ban Redux
Rating: 5.0 (15 reviews)
Author: Brandon Allen

Records various WordPress events to your server's system log for integration with Fail2Ban.

WP Fail2Ban Redux ranks #2,547 among WordPress.org plugins with 7,000+ active installations, is #96 of 1,578 in the Authentication category, a 5/5 rating from 15 reviews, and was last updated May 27, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)

v0.9.2 Current Version v0.9.2

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 27 May, 2025

Refreshed 15 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#96 of 1,578 in Authentication Top 5% by installs Downloads -10.3% this week No update in over a year

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7K+

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96.6K

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Review 5 out of 5

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Next Milestone 8K

Total Progress 84.8%

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.9.2
Last Updated: May 27, 2025
Requires WP: 5.8+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Brandon Allen

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 15
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

WordPress site administrators who use Fail2Ban to block malicious traffic based on server logs. It solves the lack of integration between WordPress security events and Fail2Ban by recording events like failed logins and pingback errors to the system log.

Records failed XML-RPC authentication attempts
Records successful authentication attempts
Records failed authentication attempts
Records pingback errors
Filter-enabled pingback request logging
Filter-enabled blocked user enumeration logging
Filter-enabled blocked username authentication logging
Filter-enabled spammed comment logging

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Fail2Ban Redux

If you haven't set any of the WP fail2ban constants, you don't need to do anything. If you have set some of the constants, view the upgrade instructions.

Yes! All of the improvements made in WP Fail2Ban Redux were done in a way that would allow existing functionality to work without changes to your filters. However, the demo filters included with the plugin do contain some recommended changes. There are also new features not found in WP fail2ban that will require changes to your filters to be effective. These changes are linked, by filter, below: wordpress-hard.conf wordpress-soft.conf Be ye forewarned: Future changes to WP fail2ban may break backwards compatibility with WP Fail2Ban Redux filters. No attempts will be made to fix this. So, even though it's not required, it is probably a good idea to update the filters anyway.

As of version 0.5.0, yes! Download the plugin, and unzip. Inside the plugin folder will be another folder named wp-fail2ban-redux and wp-fail2ban-redux.php. Upload this folder and file to the mu-plugins directory of your site.

You need to add some code to your wp-config.php file. See the below links for guidance. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9235#comment:39 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14985518/cloudflare-and-logging-visitor-ip-addresses-via-in-php/14985633#14985633 https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170916#12345680