WPHardening

Fortify the security of any WordPress installation.

❮ NOTE ❯ This tool releases new versions on a regular basis. Make sure to update your dependencies frequently to get the latest version. Check out the changelog or CHANGELOG.md to learn about the new features.

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Installation

Installing WPHardening requires you to execute one console command:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

$ python wphardening.py -h 

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Usage: python wphardening.py [options]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         Active verbose mode output results
  --update              Check for WPHardening latest stable version

  Target:
    This option must be specified to modify the package WordPress.

    -d DIRECTORY, --dir=DIRECTORY
                        **REQUIRED** - Working Directory.
    --load-conf=FILE    Load file configuration.

  Hardening:
    Different tools to hardening WordPress.

    -c, --chmod         Chmod 755 in directory and 644 in files.
    -r, --remove        Remove files and directory.
    -b, --robots        Create file robots.txt
    -f, --fingerprinting
                        Deleted fingerprinting WordPress.
    -t, --timthumb      Find the library TimThumb.
    --chown=user:group  Changing file and directory owner.
    --wp-config         Wizard generated wp-config.php
    --plugins           Download Plugins Security.
    --proxy=PROXY       Use a HTTP proxy to connect to the target url for
                        --plugins and --wp-config.
    --indexes           It deny you to display the contents of directories.
    --minify            Compressing static file .css and .js
    --malware-scan      Malware Scan in WordPress project.
    --6g-firewall       6G Firewall.
    --rest-api          Disable REST API.

  Miscellaneous:
    -o FILE, --output=FILE
                        Write log report to FILE.log

Examples

Check a WordPress Project

Before using the tool, we must ensure that our working directory is WordPress.

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress -v

Change permissions

This option is to add the correct permissions to files and directories.

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --chmod -v

Remove files that are not used

Part of the fortification of any system is to remove those files, directories or components required.

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --remove -v

Create your robots.txt file

WordPress default does not incorporate the robots.txt file with this option poemos customize our robots.txt

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --robots -v

For more information robots.txt

Remove all fingerprinting and Version

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --fingerprinting -v

Check a TimThumb library

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --timthumb -v

Create Index file

This file is created as a way to avoid sailing in a directory.

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --indexes -v

Download Plugins security

The following is a list of the most commonly used security plugins that you can download automatically:

• AntiVirus
• Bad Behavior
• Block Bad Queries
• Exploit Scanner
• Latch
• NinjaFirewall
• Simple History
• Stream
• WP Security Scan
• WP-DBManager
• WPS Hide Login

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --plugins

Wizard generated wp-config.php

This command automatically creates a file called wp-config-wphardening.php which can then rename it.

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --wp-config

6G Firewalls

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --6g-firewall

Disable REST API

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress --rest-api

WPHardening update

With this option you can always have the latest version of WPHardening.

$ python wphardening.py --update

Use all options

$ python wphardening.py -d /home/path/to/wordpress -c -r -f -t --wp-config --indexes --plugins --6g-firewall --rest-api -o /home/user/wphardening.log

Project Home

www.caceriadespammers.com.ar

Git Repository

https://github.com/elcodigok/wphardening

Issues

https://github.com/elcodigok/wphardening/issues