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WP PlugIndex currently records Double Knot version 1.0.0 as active, updated 9y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.8.
Overview
About this plugin
This plugin checks for common user names that don’t exist in the users table. If the submitted user name meets settings criteria the IP will be blocked from the site.
The plugin also has the ability to stop author enumeration by bots.
Recommended Settings
There are two different ways to protect your site from user name brute force attacks. The more strict way is to immediately block an IP that attempts to login with a non-existent user name. This can possibly cause issues with websites that have many users or users that may not login very often and forget their user name.
It’s most useful for one-person websites.
The less strict way is to have a black list of user names that only a bot would try like “admin” and user nicenames that aren’t logins.
author={ID} to the home page of your site. This will stop bots from incrementing through your users and discovering user nicenames.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
user enumeration
iptables
log
protect
security
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 4.8
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.8.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity15 Jun 20179y ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
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