We are pleased to announce the availability of WPIDS 0.1.2. WPIDS is a Intrusion Protection System, which is based upon the Intrusion Detection System PHPIDS.
The Plugin is able is able to detect attack strings and block them. This adds that needed layer of protection!
The latest version ships with PHPIDS version 0.4.7. The latest PHPIDS release fixes a number of false positives as well as now being able to detect even more attacks. The following bug fixes have occured within WPIDS code (to mention a few):
- XML-RPC is no longer blocked by default, it’s optional.
- Non English chararacters aren’t dropped anymore, allowing other languages. This initially broke the search facility.
- Each intrusion is now clearly visible and an error is displayed. In short, it looks alot cleaner and slicker!
Known bugs: Search engine traffic with HTTP_REFERER set generates logs. The login Page displays some errors about missing Cookie-Values. Both of them are harmless and will not cause any problems. They are not critical fixes and will be fixed in the next release (version 2).
This version will be a complete rewrite of the current Codebase, with the aim to make it more modular as well as to provide additional options. Some of the WP Lockdown’s plugin functionality will be modified as we have stumbled across problems running them concurrently.
The original release is available at phpids.org, a Full Package is ready for Download, or you can get your latest Copy from the Subversion.
If you encounter any Problems or you’ve got any feature Requests please put them into my Forum.