Shellshock Check
Shellshock is the code name for a security bug found in Bash shell, used on UNIX systems. The bug allows attacker to trick Bash into running a program that it wasn’t supposed to. This has very serious security implications. Read more Shellshock plugin tests for both disclosed shellshock vulnerabilities CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169. Created by ManageWP License This file is part of Shellshock Check. Shellshock Check is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Shellshock Check is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ManageWP Worker. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
WP fail2ban Blocklist
There are many plugins that use a database to check for malicious IPs after they connect, and of course fail2ban stops repeated attacks, but what if bad IPs could be blocked before they attack? By working collaboratively – sharing attack data – WP fail2ban Blocklist does exactly that. The Blocklist Network Service (BNS) collects attack data from participating sites, performs some analytical magic, and sends back a list of IPs that are attacking sites now but haven’t yet attacked that site. In other words, each site periodically gets a unique list of IPs to block preemptively. GDPR The BNS doesn’t collect personal data, and bots don’t have rights. That said, the BNS only collects the minimum data required (time, IP, event), and only for IPs that have behaved maliciously. Of course, it is possible that some data is generated by people behaving maliciously, but the BNS has no way to differentiate – and nor should it: an attack is an attack. Freemius To work, the BNS must know: which sites are running the blocklist add-on, which version is in use, and a shared secret for secure communication. Freemius already provides all these, and WP fail2ban already uses Freemius; why reinvent the wheel? Therefore, unlike the core WP fail2ban plugin, you must opt into Freemius for the blocklist to work.
