coreSecurity Pro
History
Here you can find the latest historical changelog for coreSecurity Pro plugin. For the latest releases, check out the main changelog page.
Version: 2.4.1 / June 14 2025
- edit Dev4Press Library 5.4
- edit Freemius SDK 2.12.0
Version: 2.4 / February 19, 2025
- new use composer to install third party libraries
- new use composer to install Dev4Press Library
- new latest
Highlightscript for the syntax highlighting - edit improved antispam content links counting
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit expanded list of domains and other data
- edit updates to the loading of third party libraries
- edit many updates to the plugin loading process
- edit Dev4Press Library 5.3
- del removed abandoned
Enlighterscript - fix doing it wrong warning for translations on WordPress 6.7
Version: 2.3.4 / October 08, 2024
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
Version: 2.3.3 / September 26, 2024
- edit expanded list of the predefined
CSPrules - edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
Version: 2.3.2 / September 13, 2024
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
Version: 2.3.1 / September 07, 2024
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
Version: 2.3 / August 23, 2024
- new feature: antispam for Mailster; check newsletter subscriptions emails
- new antispam contact form 7: include preprocessing filters
- new htaccess: option to disable
mod_security - new htaccess: option to redirect HTTP to HTTPS
- edit various tweaks to the 7G and 8G firewall rules
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit 8G Firewall 1.3 Stable
- fix few wording issues in the settings descriptions
Version: 2.2.2 / August 19, 2024
- edit improved caching of the regex dictionary entries
- edit additional protection for the regex detection methods
- edit Dev4Press Library 5.0.1
- fix global regex detection issues with empty input values
- fix regex dictionary entry can lead to detection problems
- fix invalid dictionary entry that can lead to false detections
Version: 2.2.1 / August 15, 2024
- edit various tweaks to the 7G and 8G firewall rules
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit expanded list of domains and other data
- edit expanded list of malware scanner rules
- fix several issues related to Users panel integration
Version: 2.2 / July 17, 2024
- new feature: reputation monitor - domain and IP status
- new feature: robots.txt - review and expand robots.txt file
- new robots.txt: options to disallow user agent for AI Bots
- new reputation monitor: support for Spamhaus DNSBL
- new reputation monitor: widget on the dashboard
- new firewall: use list of AI user agents from dictionary
- new htaccess: ban user agents from the dictionary
- new htaccess: ban AI user agents from the dictionary
- new dictionary type for the AI user agents
- new instant notifications: reputation change
- new digest notifications: current reputation status
- edit spamhaus DNSBL: improved processing of results
- edit expanded DNSBL processing with the malware flag
- edit database table for IP Log expanded with new column
- edit expanded various dictionary types standard values
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit changes to the dashboard widgets loading order
Version: 2.1 / July 10, 2024
- new feature: reputation monitor - check domain and server ip reputation
- new feature: users administration - expand users panels
- new users administration: users panels with the Registration column
- new users administration: users panels with the Posts column
- new users administration: users panels with the Comments column
- new users administration: dialog with extra controls and data display
- new users control: limit use of HTML in descriptions
- new disable user accounts with a wide range of settings
- new bulk disable user accounts with a wide range of settings
- new disabled users can't log in and can be hidden from website
- edit expanded list of the predefined
CSPrules - edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit improvements to the multisite integration
- edit various changes to the
HTMLemail template - edit few improvements with users panel integration
- edit changes to digest notifications content order
- edit few improvements to the transient cache object
- edit Dev4Press Library 5.0
- fix several issues related to the shared library integration
Version: 2.0 / June 26, 2024
- new feature: cloudflare turnstile - captcha implementation
- new feature: hCaptcha - captcha implementation
- new feature: digest notifications - daily, weekly and monthly
- new feature: instant notifications - for special security events
- new feature: captcha protection - protect various forms with captcha
- new instant notifications: vulnerability found
- new instant notifications: file scanner completed
- new instant notifications: ip banned
- new captcha protection:
WordPresslogin form - new ban ips: ban ip with too many failed captchas
- new antispam comments: captcha support
- new antispam topics: captcha support
- new antispam replies: captcha support
- new dashboard widget: website health
- new events: added new event for failed captcha for protected forms
- new strict transport security: extra value for 'preload' flag
- new expand the users panels with description and website URL columns
- new multisite network support improved for the individual blogs
- edit various updates to the plugin features settings information
- edit antispam comments: tweaks to the existing spam check
- edit updated permissions policy, Browsing Topics replacing FLoC
- edit improvements to the loading conditions for some features
- edit expanded list of the predefined
CSPrules - edit protect all PHP files from direct file access
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.9.2
- fix minor problem with the license validation scheduler
- fix several issues related to the shared library integration
Version: 1.9.2 / June 18, 2024
- edit changes to some firewall related dictionary entries
- edit changes to the 7G and 8G
HTACCESSfirewall
Version: 1.9.1 / June 13, 2024
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit updates to the license code validation
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.9.1
Version: 1.9 / may 17, 2024
- new administration user profile shows
User Securitysection - new administration user profile lists all active user login
Sessions - new antispam bbpress topics: skip checking the private and hidden forums
- new antispam bbpress replies: skip checking the private and hidden forums
- new file scanner background job added anti-stall system for scan errors
- new file scanner messages expanded with more information
- new file scanner now has a button that can abort the scan process
- edit added more links for various panels to the knowledge base
- edit various tweaks to the malware scanner results analysis
- edit various tweaks and improvements to the file scanner
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- fix antispam bbpress replies: problem with initial processing of input
- fix file scanner job can have issue with the datetime formatting
- fix file scanner integrity scan can fail due to the missing plugin data
- fix file scanner for malware is not skipping symbolic links
- fix file scanner for integrity is not skipping symbolic links
- fix file scanner checksums not working for the Dev4Press plugins
Version: 1.8 / may 2, 2024
- new tweaks: added tweak to control admin email confirmation interval
- new events: added new events for replace salt and logout users tasks
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit Net DNS2 Library 1.5.4
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.8
- fix dashboard banned IP widget can fail if a flag can't be displayed
- fix several issues with PHP 8.1 and newer
Version: 1.7 / march 21, 2024
- new antispam gravity forms: expanded form settings integration with field selection
- new antispam gravity forms: improved selection of the form fields values
- new antispam wpforms: expanded form settings integration with field selection
- new antispam wpforms: improved selection of the form fields values
- new tweaks: added tweak to disable application passwords
- new ban ips: ban ip with too many failed login attempts
- new dictionary cleanup tools: remove a group of entries by type and source
- edit antispam gravity forms: add first text field as a subject
- edit improved log popup options to ban domain or email
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit various improvements to the antispam code organization
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.7.3
- fix antispam: regex for title was not used to check the title
- fix network error logging gets disabled after plugin update
- fix minor issue with the request headers inspector results
Version: 1.6 / march 13, 2024
- new cleanup tools: remove all CSP and
NELreports - edit various improvements to the antispam features
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit updated matomo firewall referrers list
- edit updated disposable email domains list
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.7.1
- fix antispam: bbpress topic marked event not fired or logged
- fix antispam: bbpress reply marked event not fired or logged
- fix antispam: logging not adding proper source ID for comments
- fix antispam: logging not adding proper source ID for topics and replies
- fix duplicates query issue with the IP log database query
- fix argument type issue with the Ban IP logging
Version: 1.5 / February 12, 2024
- new feature: users control for user-related operations
- new users control: logout individual users
- new users control: task to log out all users from all sessions
- new users control: task to replace salts in
wp-config.php - new users control: limit number of logged-in sessions
- new bridge now runs actions after import and dev4press import
- new events for the bridge import and dev4press import
- new tasks panel for adding quick features powered tasks
- edit improvements to the Banned IPs panel query and display
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit tweaks to the
7Gand8Gfirewalls to avoid several noticed issues - edit Dev4Press Library 4.7
- fix banned ips: bulk deletion of the IPs not working
- fix banned ips: bulk conversion of the IPs not working
- fix banned ips: problem with the missing sources
- fix blackhole: few minor issues with escaping notices
Version: 1.4 / January 31, 2024
- new feature: bridge for integration with other websites
- new feature: blackhole to capture bad bots with robots.txt file
- new feature: network error logging (
NEL) security header - new feature: antispam for
WPFormsboth a Pro and Lite version - new nel: dedicated error logs panel similar to CSP logs panel
- new bridge: get curated banned IP list from Dev4Press API
- new log events: bridge success and failed, ips bulk banning and more
- new ban ips: support for the blackhole bots capture
- new ban ips: support for the antispam
- new class
Headersto handle adding all security headers directly - edit expanded
Ban IPsdatabase table with website source columns - edit improved
HTACCESSbuilding of security headers - edit improved antispam features with additional shared spam action
- edit various tweaks to the setup wizard options and default settings
- edit changes to default values for various features settings
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.6.1
- fix manual banning IP always set the 7 days as a period
- fix removed some debug code that could cause issues
Version: 1.3 / January 22, 2024
- new feature: vulnerabilities database integration
- new vulnerabilities: PHP, core, plugins, and themes checks
- new vulnerabilities: get
CVEreports and scores - new vulnerabilities: integration with a plugins panel
- new vulnerabilities: integration with a network themes panel
- new plugin dashboard: vulnerabilities status widget
- new plugin dashboard: banned IPs widget
- new support for
SpamhausDNSBL for IP and domain checking - new registration control: check domain with email domain regex
- new registration control: check domain via Spamhaus DNSBL
- new registration control: ban domain based on the Spamhaus DNSBL
- new dictionary: antispam regex for title
- new dictionary: deny email domain regex
- new antispam core: approve for selected user roles
- new antispam core: check title (if available) with the regex
- new antispam core: check
SpamhausDNSBL for Domain - new antispam core: support for
SpamhausDNSBL - new dnsbl: event logged when the IP was forbidden access
- edit expanded the items in the
AdminbarToolbar menu - edit updated links to the knowledge base articles
- edit various updates to the settings information
- edit more knowledge base links to various panels
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- edit changes related to WordPress and PHP code standards
Version: 1.2 / January 12, 2024
- new banned IPs panel: option to filter security logs by the IP
- new
CSP: new option to stop logging reports about admin pages - new gravity forms: option and filter to check for existing spam
- new gravity forms: metabox shows the spam reason if available
- new safe list for domains that can't be added to deny lists
- new automatically add disposable domain based on the DNS records check
- edit some improvements to the
CSPfeature settings organization - edit few changes related to
Activityevents registration - edit added more optional disposable email domains
- edit expanded various dictionary types optional values
- fix registration control: too many dots check not working
- fix firewall: issue with matching referrers
- fix problem with blocked URI in the
CSPlog missing - fix showing action buttons for email in the popup view
- fix registration control domain deny list check not stopping other checks
Version: 1.1 / January 3, 2024
- new
CSP: new option to auto apply rules on security headers changed - new
CSP: a logs panel has options to add blocked values into directives - new comments: spam comment links to add email and domain do dictionary
- new gravity forms: entry metabox to add email and domain do dictionary
- new logs view: actions to ban IP, add emails and domains to dictionary
- new admin bar integration with a new menu and important plugin shortcuts
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.6
- fix potential issues with Firewall and invalid referrer value
- fix inspector DNS panel: problem with displaying errors returned by DNS server
- fix inspector DNS panel: code issue with the processing of results
Version: 1.0.1 / December 19, 2023
- edit function
parse_urlreplaced withwp_parse_url - edit function
datereplaced withgmdate - edit function
json_encodereplaced withwp_json_encode - edit various plugin core updates and tweaks
- edit Dev4Press Library 4.5.2
- fix antispam basic code was having a problem with adding reasons
- fix antispam trackback: with a comment type set to wrong value
Version: 1.0 / December 12, 2023
- new first official release