WPScan VS NinjaFirewall (WP Edition)

Or you could just run WPScan, a simple open source CLI Wordpress pen testing tool which will scan for 30k+ known WP vulnerabilities. It certainly isn't as comprehensive as hiring a Red Team to attack the site but it can provide baseline assurance that no gaping holes exist in your security config, This should be part of your security hardening workflow if is isnt already. Source: about 1 year ago

Source: https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner. Source: over 1 year ago

Finally, you can use a service like WPScan to fix WordPress issues by scanning your website for plugins and themes that have known security vulnerabilities. Source: over 1 year ago

After our initial port scan, we might do more scans depending on what we find. In order to be as effective as possible, and to gather as much information as possible, pentesters are often running multiple scans simultaneously on a target. There are hundreds of tools out there for every service imaginable. Some of the tools worth mentioning are wpscan (https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner) for Wordpress... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

So the website is using Wordpress. Having said that, we are going to use WPScan. But before that, make sure that you have already acquired your API token before using WPScan or you will never be able to utilize the scanner. You can get your own API token by signing up on their website. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

WordPress with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) is super secure. I use the free version of Ninja Firewall. Https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninjafirewall/. Source: 12 months ago

We provide a competing plugin, but in our testing, the best free firewall option has been NinjaFirewall. It has been shown to provide more protection than Wordfence Security without creating the same performance penalty. Source: over 1 year ago

While what you are saying is partially true with Wordfence, it isn't true for WordPress firewall plugins that are well developed. With both NinjaFirewalland our Plugin Vulnerabilities Firewall provide protection that Cloudflare can't provide, as they hook into WordPress and take actions based on information that Cloudflare and other security systems that don't hook in to it, don't have access to. Source: almost 2 years ago

If someone wants a firewall plugin, then our testing has shown that the best free option is NinjaFirewall and our Plugin Vulnerabilities Firewall is the best overall. Source: almost 2 years ago

Wordfence Security actually does provide some protection against those types of vulnerabilities. The problem is that, as our testing has shown, it provides much less than the NinjaFirewall plguin and our Plugin Vulnerabilities Firewall plugin. That might have to do with them selling access to firewall rules, as providing better general protection would reduce the need for firewall rules, but it would provide much... Source: almost 2 years ago