Best all-in-one WordPress security plugin, uses HTTP & HSTS response headers to avoid vulnerabilities: XSS, injection, clickjacking. Force HTTP/HTTPS.
Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP is Best all-in-one a free plug-in for all WordPress users. Deactivating this plugin will return your site configuration exactly to the state it was in before.
The Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP project implements HTTP response headers that your site can use to increase the security of your website. The plug-in will automatically set up all Best Practices (you don’t have to think about anything), these HTTP response headers can prevent modern browsers from running into easily predictable vulnerabilities. The Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP project wants to popularize and increase awareness and usage of these headers for all wordpress users.
This plugin is developed by TentaclePlugins by irn3, we care about WordPress security and best practices.
Check out the best features of Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP:
Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP is based on OWASP CSRF to protect your wordpress site. Using OWASP CSRF, once the plugin is installed, it will provide full CSRF mitigation without having to call a method to use nonce on the output. The site will be secure despite having other vulnerable plugins (CSRF).
HTTP security headers are a critical part of your website’s security. After automatic implementation with Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP, they protect you from the most notorious types of attacks your site might encounter. These headers protect against XSS, code injection, clickjacking, etc.
We have put a lot of effort into making the most important services operational with Content Security Policy (CSP), below are some examples that we have tested and used with Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP:
Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP is based on the OWASP CSRF standard to protect your wordpress site. Using the OWASP CSRF standard, once the plugin is installed, you can customize CSP rules for full CSRF mitigation. The site will be secure despite having other vulnerable plugins (CSRF).
All Free Features
The Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP version includes all the free features.
We have implemented FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), using best practices. First, using Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP prevents the browser from including your site in the “cohort calculation” on FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). This means that nothing can call document.interestCohort() to get the FLoC ID of the currently used client. Obviously, this does nothing outside of your currently visited site and does not “disable” FLoC on the client beyond that scope.
Even though FLoC is still fairly new and not yet widely supported, as programmers we think that privacy protection elements are important, so we choose to give you the feature of being opt out of FLoC! Weâve created a special âautomatic blocking of FLoCâ feature, trying to always offer the best tool with privacy protection and cyber security as main targets and focus.
Analyze your site before and after using Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP security headers are self-configured according to HTTP Security Headers and HTTP Strict Transport Security / HSTS best practices.
This plugin is updated periodically, our limited support is free, we are available for your feedback (bugs, compatibility issues or recommendations for next updates). We are usually fast :-D.
Check HTTP Security Headers (AFTER)
Check HTTP Security Headers (BEFORE)
Check HTTP Strict Transport Security / HSTS (list)
Check WebPageTest (AFTER)
Check WebPageTest (BEFORE)
Setting on single site installation
Check HTTP Security Headers - Serpworx (AFTER)
Check HTTP Security Headers - Serpworx (BEFORE)
Site-wide security setting
To earn an A+ grade, your site must issue all HTTP response headers that we check. This indicates a high level of commitment to improving the security of your visitors.
Over an HTTP connection we get Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options and X-XSS-Protection. Via an HTTPS connection, 2 additional headers are checked for presence which are Strict-Transport-Security and Public-Key-Pins.
No, Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP is Fast, Secure and does not affect the SEO and speed of your website.
It was created as a solution to force the browser to use secure connections when a site is running on HTTPS. It is a security header that is added to the web server and reflected in the response header as Strict-Transport-Security. HSTS is important because it addresses the following anomalies:
This step is important to submit your website and/or domain to an approved HSTS list. Google officially compiles this list and it is used by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE11 and Edge. You can forward your site to the official HSTS preload directory. (‘https://hstspreload.org/’)
If you want to use Preload HSTS for your site, there are a few requirements before you can activate it.
The HSTS header on your base domain (for example: example.com) is already configured you just need to activate the plug-in.
If you want to check the HSTS status of your site, you can do so here: https://hstspreload.org/
You can report bugs or request new features right support@tentacleplugins[dot]com
FLoC is a mega tracker that monitors user activity on all sites, stores the information in the browser, and then uses machine learning to place users into cohorts with similar interests. This way, advertisers can target groups of people with similar interests. Plus, according to Google’s own testing, FLoC achieves at least 95% more conversions than cookies.
Scott Helme reported that as of May 3, already 967 of the first 1 million domains had disabled FLoC’s interest-cohort in their Permissions-Policy header. That list included some big sites like The Guardian and IKEA.
Are you experiencing any anomalies after a plugin update? If yes, please follow these instructions: clear the cache directly to the CloudFlare Client Area
This will cause the cloudFlare
We don’t want to tell you what to do, but here’s the point: if you’ve updated the Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP plugin last time, you’ve seen that when we suggest doing so, we don’t just say it and leave it at that. Well, with this 5.0.36 version we’ve added and fixed a lot (we got rid of some bugs, tidied up some pesky pixels and updated the graphics) and it all works great. Are we agreed? Touch “update” and we’ll provide you with the most beautiful, fastest, and most impressive plugin around. Enjoy!
– New: The plugin is now fully compatible with WordPress 6.5. I commitment to maintain compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress to ensure that your site runs smoothly;
– New: In the most recent version, I have introduced a new feature that allows you to fix duplicate headers in one click. This option is designed to give you more control and avoid the “duplicate headers” warning;
– Upgrade: Fixed the bug that could delete the plugin rules of the header customization function (X-Frame-Options and Permissions-Policy), this was caused by the customization of ALLOW-FROM Fixed the bug that could delete the plugin rules of the header customization function (X-Frame-Options and Permissions-Policy), this was caused by the customization of ALLOW-FROM;
– Delete: deleted the ‘X-XSS-Protection’ header because this functionality is no longer in the standards path.