Limit Login Attempts Security – Login Security, 2FA, Firewall, Brute Force Prevention vs NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) – Advanced Security Plugin and Firewall

Protect your WordPress website against brute force attacks, bot attacks, and unauthorized login attempts with one of the most trusted login security plugins for WordPress. Limit Login Attempts Security strengthens your WordPress login security by limiting failed login attempts, blocking malicious IPs, securing wp-login.php, protecting XML-RPC, and adding powerful firewall and 2FA protection without slowing down your website. Trusted by 2 million WordPress websites, Limit Login Attempts Security is designed specifically to protect the most targeted part of your website: the login page. Why Use Limit Login Attempts Security? By default, WordPress allows unlimited login attempts. This creates a major security vulnerability where bots and attackers can repeatedly guess usernames and passwords until they gain access. This is especially important in the age of AI, where attackers now have access to faster and more sophisticated tools than ever before. Limit Login Attempts Security helps stop: Brute force attacks Bot login attacks Credential stuffing attacks XML-RPC attacks Unauthorized login attempts WooCommerce login abuse Malicious IP access attempts The plugin automatically blocks excessive login attempts and locks out suspicious IP addresses and usernames before attackers can gain access. Features Included in the Free Version Login Security & Brute Force Protection Limit login attempts by IP address and username Automatically lock out suspicious login activity Adjustable lockout duration and retry limits Protect wp-login.php from automated attacks Prevent brute force login attacks 2FA / Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Built-in two-factor authentication (2FA) Add an additional layer of login protection Improve WordPress account security Secure administrator and user logins Firewall & Bot Protection Block malicious login requests Detect suspicious login behavior Reduce bot-based login attacks Lightweight firewall-focused login protection WooCommerce & Plugin Compatibility Protects: WooCommerce login pages XML-RPC login requests Custom login pages WordPress multisite installations Compatible With: Wordfence Sucuri Ultimate Member MemberPress WPS Hide Login Cloudflare and reverse proxy setups Login Monitoring & Notifications Failed login attempt logs Lockout email notifications Denied attempt tracking Login retry visibility for users Access Controls IP safelist and denylist support Username safelist and denylist support IPv6 range support Custom IP origin configuration Premium Features (Start Your Free 14 Day Trial) Upgrade to Limit Login Attempts Security Premium to extend protection with cloud-based login security and advanced attack prevention. Advanced Cloud Protection Real-time malicious IP intelligence Global denylist protection Synchronized lockouts across websites Auto IP denylist generation Cloud-based login attack mitigation Enhanced Performance Protection Offload excessive failed login requests from your server Reduce server strain during attacks Improve stability under heavy attack conditions Advanced Security Features Country-based login blocking Enhanced throttling and lockout escalation Registration page protection Successful login tracking Enhanced lockout analytics and geolocation data Multi-Site & Team Features Shared safelist and denylist syncing Shared lockout protection between domains Cloud backups of IP security data CSV exports of login and IP activity Premium Support Access to security-focused support specialists Faster troubleshooting and assistance Lightweight Security Built for WordPress Unlike many large security suites, Limit Login Attempts Security focuses specifically on login security and brute force protection. This means: Faster performance Less server overhead Easier configuration Strong protection without unnecessary bloat Protect More Than Just wp-login.php Limit Login Attempts Security secures: wp-login.php XML-RPC WooCommerce logins Custom login forms Registration pages Multisite logins Trusted by Millions of WordPress Websites Limit Login Attempts Security is one of the most widely used WordPress login security plugins and has helped protect millions of websites from brute force attacks and malicious login activity. Whether you run: A personal blog WooCommerce store Membership website Agency Business website Enterprise WordPress network Limit Login Attempts Security helps secure your login experience with modern WordPress login protection. Upgrading from the Original Limit Login Attempts Plugin? Switching is easy: Remove the old Limit Login Attempts plugin Install Limit Login Attempts Security Your settings will remain intact Translation Support Currently translated into multiple languages including: Spanish French German Dutch Turkish Swedish Russian Romanian Chinese (Traditional) Brazilian Portuguese And more Secure Your WordPress Login Today Install Limit Login Attempts Security and protect your WordPress website with: Login security Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Brute force protection Firewall security Bot protection XML-RPC protection WooCommerce login protection Without slowing down your website.

A true Web Application Firewall NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) is a true Web Application Firewall. Although it can be installed and configured just like a plugin, it is a stand-alone firewall that stands in front of WordPress. It allows any blog administrator to benefit from very advanced and powerful security features that usually aren’t available at the WordPress level, but only in security applications such as the Apache ModSecurity module or the PHP Suhosin extension. NinjaFirewall requires at least PHP 7.1, MySQLi extension and is only compatible with Unix-like OS (Linux, BSD). It is not compatible with Microsoft Windows. NinjaFirewall can hook, scan, sanitise or reject any HTTP/HTTPS request sent to a PHP script before it reaches WordPress or any of its plugins. All scripts located inside the blog installation directories and sub-directories will be protected, including those that aren’t part of the WordPress package. Even encoded PHP scripts, hackers shell scripts and backdoors will be filtered by NinjaFirewall. Powerful filtering engine NinjaFirewall includes the most powerful filtering engine available in a WordPress plugin. Its most important feature is its ability to normalize and transform data from incoming HTTP requests which allows it to detect Web Application Firewall evasion techniques and obfuscation tactics used by hackers, as well as to support and decode a large set of encodings. See our blog for a full description: An introduction to NinjaFirewall filtering engine. Fastest and most efficient brute-force attack protection for WordPress By processing incoming HTTP requests before your blog and any of its plugins, NinjaFirewall is the only plugin for WordPress able to protect it against very large brute-force attacks, including distributed attacks coming from several thousands of different IPs. See our benchmarks and stress-tests: Brute-force attack detection plugins comparison The protection applies to the wp-login.php script but can be extended to the xmlrpc.php one. The incident can also be written to the server AUTH log, which can be useful to the system administrator for monitoring purposes or banning IPs at the server level (e.g., Fail2ban). Real-time detection File Guard real-time detection is a totally unique feature provided by NinjaFirewall: it can detect, in real-time, any access to a PHP file that was recently modified or created, and alert you about this. If a hacker uploaded a shell script to your site (or injected a backdoor into an already existing file) and tried to directly access that file using his browser or a script, NinjaFirewall would hook the HTTP request and immediately detect that the file was recently modified or created. It would send you an alert with all details (script name, IP, request, date and time). File integrity monitoring File Check lets you perform file integrity monitoring by scanning your website hourly, twicedaily or daily. Any modification made to a file will be detected: file content, file permissions, file ownership, timestamp as well as file creation and deletion. Watch your website traffic in real time Live Log lets you watch your website traffic in real time. It displays connections in a format similar to the one used by the tail -f Unix command. Because it communicates directly with the firewall, i.e., without loading WordPress, Live Log is fast, lightweight and it will not affect your server load, even if you set its refresh rate to the lowest value. Event Notifications NinjaFirewall can alert you by email on specific events triggered within your blog. Some of those alerts are enabled by default and it is highly recommended to keep them enabled. It is not unusual for a hacker, after breaking into your WordPress admin console, to install or just to upload a backdoored plugin or theme in order to take full control of your website. NinjaFirewall can also attach a PHP backtrace to important notifications. Monitored events: Administrator login. Modification of any administrator account in the database. Plugins upload, installation, (de)activation, update, deletion. Themes upload, installation, activation, deletion. WordPress update. Pending security update in your plugins and themes. Stay protected against the latest WordPress security vulnerabilities To get the most efficient protection, NinjaFirewall can automatically update its security rules daily, twice daily or even hourly. Each time a new vulnerability is found in WordPress or one of its plugins/themes, a new set of security rules will be made available to protect your blog immediately. Strong Privacy Unlike a Cloud Web Application Firewall, or Cloud WAF, NinjaFirewall works and filters the traffic on your own server and infrastructure. That means that your sensitive data (contact form messages, customers credit card number, login credentials etc) remains on your server and is not routed through a third-party company’s servers, which could pose unnecessary risks (e.g., decryption of your HTTPS traffic in order to inspect it, employees accessing your data or logs in plain text, theft of private information, man-in-the-middle attack etc). Your website can run NinjaFirewall and be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). See our blog for more details. IPv6 compatibility IPv6 compatibility is a mandatory feature for a security plugin: if it supports only IPv4, hackers can easily bypass the plugin by using an IPv6. NinjaFirewall natively supports IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, for both public and private addresses. Multi-site support NinjaFirewall is multi-site compatible. It will protect all sites from your network and its configuration interface will be accessible only to the Super Admin from the network main site. Possibility to prepend your own PHP code to the firewall You can prepend your own PHP code to the firewall with the help of an optional distributed configuration file. It will be processed before WordPress and all its plugins are loaded. This is a very powerful feature, and there is almost no limit to what you can do: add your own security rules, manipulate HTTP requests, variables etc. Low Footprint Firewall NinjaFirewall is very fast, optimised, compact, and requires very low system resource. See for yourself: download and install the Code Profiler plugin and compare NinjaFirewall’s performance with other security plugins. Non-Intrusive User Interface NinjaFirewall looks and feels like a built-in WordPress feature. It does not contain intrusive banners, warnings or flashy colors. It uses the WordPress simple and clean interface and is also smartphone-friendly. Contextual Help Each NinjaFirewall menu page has a contextual help screen with useful information about how to use and configure it. If you need help, click on the Help menu tab located in the upper right corner of each page in your admin panel. Need more security ? Check out our new supercharged edition: NinjaFirewall WP+ Edition Unix shared memory use for inter-process communication and blazing fast performances. IP-based Access Control. Role-based Access Control. Country-based Access Control via geolocation. URL-based Access Control. Bot-based Access Control. Import/Export the configuration from WP-CLI. Centralized Logging. Antispam for comment and user regisration forms. Rate limiting option to block aggressive bots, crawlers, web scrapers and HTTP attacks. Response body filter to scan the output of the HTML page right before it is sent to your visitors browser. Better File uploads management. Better logs management. Syslog logging. Learn more about the WP+ Edition unique features. Compare the WP and WP+ Editions. Requirements WordPress 4.9+ Admin/Superadmin with manage_options + unfiltered_html capabilities. PHP 7.1+ MySQL or MariaDB with MySQLi extension Apache / Nginx / LiteSpeed / Openlitespeed compatible Unix-like operating systems only (Linux, BSD etc). NinjaFirewall is NOT compatible with Microsoft Windows.