Have some doubts about the security of your WordPress installation? Use WP Security Scan, a plugin that scans your WordPress installation for various security vulnerabilities and recommends corrective actions for the detected vulnerabilities. WP Security Scan checks passwords, file permissions, directory permissions and database security. Out of corrective measures, it offers version hiding, WordPress admin protection/security and removes WP Generator META tag from core code.

The present version of this plugin is 2.3 and it requires WordPress 2.3 or higher. In future releases some more features will be added, such as:

• One-click change file/folder permissions.
• Test for XSS vulnerabilities.
• Intrusion detection/prevention.
• Lock out/log incorrect login attempts.
• User enumeration protection.
• doc links.
• .htaccess verification.

Note: The WP Security Scan plugin needs to be left activated once you have installed. Version hiding, turning off DB errors, removing WP ID META tag from HTML output, and other functionality of WordPress will cease if you deactivate the plugin.

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