Security Firewall for WordPress
1. First go to your Security Dashboard. Choose "Site Security" in the "Services" menu:
2. Then press the line "Personal Lists" under the name of your website:
3. You are on the Security Firewall settings page now:
You can filter current records you have in your Black & White Lists using the following tools:
- A — select what website you want to see records of;
- B — select the type of records (IP, Network, Country);
- C — select the item "Status" if you want to see all records regardless of their status;
- D — leave this field empty if you want to see all records;
- E — search for the specific record by IP (you don't have to enter the full IP address to find it).
Click the button "Show" when you select all necessary items.
If you need to delete several records at once, tick all necessary checkboxes and press the button "Delete selected records" above the list.
4. Press the button "Add new filter" to block or to allow any record you want:
- F — record type;
- H — you can add records of different types to your Black & White Lists:
IP-Addresses (For example 10.150.20.250, 10.10.10.10)
Subnets (For example 10.150.20.250/24, 10.10.10.10/8)
- G — put a note to the record to remember why or what it was about;
- I — select what website you want to add records to.
The records can be added one by one or all at once using separators: comma, semicolon, space, tab, or a new line.
After filling the field press the button "Whitelist" or "Blacklist". Or press the button "Cancel" if you change your mind.
All added records will be displayed in your list below.
Please note, all changes will be applied in 5-10 minutes.
5. Choose "Add a country" to block or to allow any IP addresses coming from the selected countries:
- J — select what countries you want to add to your Black & White Lists;
- K — select what action you want to perform to the selected countries;
- L — select what website you want to apply chosen countries to.
Click the button "Add" when you select all necessary items.
Or press the button "Cancel" if you change your mind.
6. It is possible to export the list of any selected records as a CSV file. The opposite is also available — you can import your CSV file to your Black & White Lists.
The export and import buttons are located above to table. Records in the imported CSV must be divided with "," or ";". You can blacklist/whitelist IP addresses, IP networks:
To add a record to the whitelist add allow after the separator:
To Test if Security FireWall is working: go to your Security Dashboard -> Click the link "Settings" below the URL of the website -> Click the link "Testing Security FireWall"
Alternative way to check Security FireWall: use test URL link like this: YourWebsite.com/?spbct_test="MD5_HASH_FROM_YOUR_ACCESS_KEY"&spbct_test_ip=10.10.10.10
To get MD5 hash from your access key, please, use this tool: https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_php_functions/md5/
We added a possibility to view logs for changes in your Personal lists. To open your ChangeLog window please use this link. You can read more here.
Database notes: The standard size of the SecurityFireWall table (spbc_firewall_data) is about 8MB (~27k records). This value may increase or decrease slightly, depending on the current spam ratings. If you use personal lists, these networks will be added to spbc_firewall__personal_ips or spbc_firewall__personal_countries. Also, if you’re using WPMS, all the common data will be stored in one table to reduce disk space utilization.
If you haven't found the answer to your question, please, contact our support team:
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