Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security
Security Firewall & Site Security
Wordfence Security is a WordPress plugin for Firewall & Site Security. It ranks #1 of 205 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 month ago.
Slug wordfence
Maintenance check
Is Wordfence 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.
- Support is answered. 157 of 187 forum threads in the last two months were resolved.
- Well rated. 4.7 out of 5 from 5,039 ratings.
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More installed than 99.9% of the directory
Ahead of 47,718 of the 47,729 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
- 9.0.2
- Requires WordPress
- 4.7
- Tested up to
- 7.1.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Added to the directory
- 21 April 2012
- Last updated
- 30 September 2026
- Contributors
- 4
- Author
- Mark Maunder
- Support threads resolved
- 157 of 187
Its own tags
- 2FA
- firewall
- malware
- scanner
- security
Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.
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