About this plugin
Security that keeps watching after the first block.
Watchdog Security Lite brings serious WordPress protection into one clear workspace: hardening, exploit defense, malware scanning, login protection, trusted-file checks, live change monitoring and WooCommerce-aware protection.
Then it goes further.
It watches the places that are easy to miss after the obvious alert: persistent access, unexpected outbound connections, administrator sessions, meaningful file changes and related activity across the site.
The result is security that feels useful day to day — not just when something goes wrong.
More than a scanner
Watchdog combines protection, visibility and recovery tools that work together:
- WordPress Hardening helps tighten common weak points with a conservative recommended setup.
- Exploit Shield blocks high-confidence hostile request patterns before they become application problems.
- Login Guard slows and contains repeated login attacks without turning normal sign-ins into friction.
- Malware Scanner uses shared Lumiverse Nexus malware intelligence with context-aware confidence scoring.
- Live Watch keeps recent file changes visible so you can see what actually changed.
- Official File Integrity verifies supported WordPress core, plugin and theme files against trusted sources.
- Vulnerability Watch highlights known vulnerable components that deserve attention.
- Database Threat Scan looks for high-confidence malicious code and persistence indicators in selected database areas.
- Persistence Watch watches administrator accounts, MU-plugins, scheduled tasks and other places unwanted access can survive.
- Outbound Watch shows which WordPress component is connecting to an external destination.
- Administrator Sessions gives you visibility into active administrator sessions and lets you revoke stale access.
- Recovery Center brings scanning, integrity, persistence, session and recovery actions into one place.
Security findings with context
A security scanner is most useful when it helps you understand what deserves attention.
Watchdog separates review evidence from urgent security findings. Scanner results can keep the exact file path and reason available for inspection without turning every unusual file or legitimate plugin behavior into an emergency.
When stronger evidence is present, Watchdog can escalate it clearly. When the evidence is review-level, it stays visible with the information you need to make the next decision.
See the story, not just the log
Attack Stories groups related protection activity into readable sequences, while Watchdog Live Pulse gives you a visual view of recent traffic and protection activity.
Protection Coverage brings the plugin together into six areas — Request Defense, Identity Defense, Malware & Integrity, Persistence Watch, Commerce Protection and Security Intelligence — so you can understand your current protection at a glance.
Built for WordPress and WooCommerce
WooCommerce traffic is different from a normal content site. Watchdog understands product browsing, cart activity, AJAX traffic and common automation patterns instead of treating every request the same way.
When WooCommerce is active, WooCommerce Bot Cart Guard adds store-aware protection for supported automated cart and wishlist mutations while public product pages remain available.
Start in about a minute
The 60-Second Setup Wizard applies a conservative local protection baseline, detects WooCommerce, offers safe hardening and lets you choose how Watchdog should notify you.
You can reopen it whenever you want.
Powered by Lumiverse Nexus
Watchdog Security Lite is part of the Lumiverse Nexus security platform.
For business-critical WordPress and WooCommerce sites, Nexus PRO adds earlier protection layers, deception, adaptive defense, deeper compromise correlation, Breach Command, REDLINE response, Black Box evidence and Nexus Fleet for multi-site operations.
Learn more at Lumiverse Nexus.
Privacy and Online Services
Watchdog performs routine malware scanning, database threat scanning, Live Watch and integrity checks locally on your WordPress site.
To keep security intelligence current, Watchdog connects to Lumiverse Nexus for malware-signature and vulnerability intelligence. Your website files and database content are not uploaded for routine malware scanning.
Nexus Threat Network is an optional shared-intelligence service. It is disabled by default and can be enabled by the site administrator. When enabled, it can exchange selected verified security-event metadata used by the service; it does not send passwords, cookies, form contents, WooCommerce customer/order data or page content.
Learn more at Nexus Threat Network. See the Lumiverse Nexus Privacy Notice and Terms of Service.