Defender Security – Malware Scanner, Login Security & Firewall
Security Firewall & Site Security
Defender Security is a WordPress plugin for Firewall & Site Security. It ranks #27 of 205 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 month ago.
Slug defender-security
Maintenance check
Is Defender Security still maintained?
Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.
- Updated recently. The last release was 1 month ago.
- Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
- Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 334 ratings.
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More installed than 98.8% of the directory
Ahead of 47,185 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.
Details
The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 6.3.0
- Requires WordPress
- 6.4
- Tested up to
- 7.1.4
- Requires PHP
- 8.0.0
- Added to the directory
- 7 June 2017
- Last updated
- 29 September 2026
- Contributors
- 1
- Author
- WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
- Support threads resolved
- 4 of 4
Its own tags
- firewall
- login security
- malware
- malware scanner
- security
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