WebDefender Security – Protection & AntiSpam
Security Firewall & Site Security
WebDefender Security is a WordPress plugin for Firewall & Site Security. It ranks #109 of 205 in that group by active installs and was last updated 10 months ago.
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Maintenance check
Is WebDefender Security still maintained?
Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.
- No release for a while. The last one was 10 months ago.
- Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
- Well rated. 4.0 out of 5 from 18 ratings.
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More installed than 85.6% of the directory
Ahead of 40,841 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.
The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.
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The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 5.0.2.1
- Requires WordPress
- 2.8
- Tested up to
- 6.9.11
- Added to the directory
- 12 August 2016
- Last updated
- 20 January 2026
- Contributors
- 1
- Author
- CobWeb Security Ltd.
Its own tags
- malware scanner
- protection
- security
- security plugin
- wordpress security
Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.
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