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Apocalypse Meow’s main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to user accounts and logins. This includes things like:

Brute-force login-in protection;
Customizable password strength requirements;
XML-RPC access controls;
Account access alerts;
Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans);
User enumeration prevention;
Registration SPAM protection;
Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult;

Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques, etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources with additional information.

Knowledge is power!

Requirements

Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires:

WordPress 4.4+.
PHP 7.3 or later.
PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre.
CREATE and DROP MySQL grants.
Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported).

Please note: it is not safe to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has reached its End of Life. Future releases of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features, just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂

Log Monitoring

Some robots are so dumb they’ll continue trying to submit credentials even after the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in history table. One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program like Fail2Ban or OSSEC to ban users via the firewall.

Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form. Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to wp-login.php. Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those fools.

If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the die() option, requests for ?author=X will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked.

Privacy Policy

When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to the CMS backend. This information — including the end user’s public IP address, username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors.

This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any third parties unless the Community Pool feature is enabled, in which case any IP addresses responsible for attacks against your web site are periodically shared with Blobfolio, LLC, the maintainer of the centralized database. If any of those IP addresses are subsequently identified by multiple, independent sources, they will be published to a public blocklist (hosted by Blobfolio).

Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are automatically removed after 90 days.

Please note: Apocalypse Meow DOES NOT integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms provided by this plugin. Haha.)

\n","installation":"

Nothing fancy! You can use the built-in installer on the Plugins page or extract and upload the apocalypse-meow folder to your plugins directory via FTP.

To install this plugin as Must-Use, download, extract, and upload the apocalypse-meow folder to your mu-plugins directory via FTP. See the MU Caveats for more information about getting WordPress to load an MU plugin that is in a subfolder.

Please note: MU Plugins are removed from the usual update-checking process, so you will need to handle future updates manually.

\n","faq":"\n

\nIs this plugin compatible with WPMU?\n\n

No, sorry. This plugin may only be installed on single-site WordPress instances.

\nHow does the Community Pool Blocklist Work?\n\n

The Community Pool is a new opt-in feature that combines attack data from your site with other sites running in pool mode to produce a global blocklist.

In other words, an attack against one becomes an attack against all!

The blocklist data is conservatively filtered using a tiered and weighted ranking system based on activity shared within the past 24 hours. For an IP address to be eligible for community banning, it must be independently reported from multiple sources and have a significant amount of total failures.

Your site’s whitelist is always respected. Failures from whitelisted IPs will never be sent to the pool, and if the pool declares a ban for an IP you have whitelisted, your site will not ban it.

For more information, check out the Community Pool settings page.

\nHow do I unban a user?\n\n

The Login Activity page will show any active bans in the top/right corner. You can click the button corresponding to the victim to remove the ban.

If you accidentally banned yourself and cannot access the backend, you have a few options:

Wait until the defined time has elapsed;
Login from a different IP address (tip: use your cellphone (via data, not Wifi));
Ask a friend to login and pardon you;
Temporarily de-activate the plugin by renaming the apocalypse-meow plugin folder via FTP;

Remember: you can (and should) whitelist any IP addresses that you commonly log in from. This is done through the Settings pgae.

\nCan I see the passwords people tried when logging in?\n\n

Of course not! Haha. Apocalypse Meow is here to solve security problems, not create them. Only usernames and IP addresses are stored.

\nWill the brute-force log-in prevention work if my server is behind a proxy?\n\n

As of version 1.5.0, it is now possible to specify an alternative $_SERVER variable Apocalypse Meow should use to determine the visitor’s “true” IP. It is important to note, however, that depending on how that environmental variable is populated, the value might be forgeable. Nonetheless, this should be better than nothing!

\nI am seeing “You are running Vue in development mode.” in the console?\n\n

This informational message appears on Apocalypse Meow admin pages if your site is running in WP_DEBUG mode. This version of Vue.js can provide more useful information for debugging Javascript-related issues.

When WP_DEBUG is set to FALSE (which should be the case for any production sites), the leaner production version of Vue.js is loaded instead. 🙂

\nMulti-Server Setup\n\n

Apocalypse Meow tracks login history in the database. If your WordPress site is spread across multiple load-balanced servers, they must share access to a master database, or else tracking will only occur on a per-node basis.

\n\n","changelog":"

21.7.5

[Fix] Add workaround to fix compatibility with (unaffiliated) activitypub plugin.
[Fix] Remove obsolete documentation.

21.7.4

[Fix] Fix documentation typo.

21.7.3

[Docs] Update notes for the referrer-policy setting.

21.7.2

[Fix] Improve PHP 8 compatibility.

21.7.1

[Fix] Don’t trust WP error filters send WP_Error object.

\n","screenshots":"

$\"View$
View and search the login history and manage banned users.
$\"All$
All settings include detailed explanations, suggestions, and links to additional resources. Not only will your site be vastly more secure, you'll learn a lot!
$\"The$
The Community Pool: the login blocklist can ultimately be extended to include community-reported attack data, vastly increasing the effectiveness of the brute-force login mitigation.
$\"Simple$
Simple but sexy statistics.
$\"A$
A ton of additional security and management tools for system administrators, including an ability to view and revoke individual user sessions.
$\"A$
A full suite of WP-CLI tools, hookable functions and filters to interact with or extend the login protection features, read-only configurations, and detailed documentation covering it all!

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Jeepers Peepers provides an extensible interface for recording WordPress events — user logins, file uploads, post deletions, etc. — to a standard system log.

The resulting audit trail can then be incorporated into powerful log-monitoring tools like OSSEC for pre-emptive protection and, in the unfortunate event of a hack, used as a vital reference in the post-mortem investigation.

The following events are automatically logged:

Content: wp_die() triggered;
Content: attachment deleted;
Content: attachment sideloaded;
Content: attachment uploaded;
Content: post deleted;
Content: post published;
Network: GET, HEAD, POST, etc., requests;
Plugin: activated;
Plugin: deactivated;
Plugin: upgraded;
User: deleted;
User: login banned (via Apocalypse Meow);
User: login failed;
User: login succeeded;
User: new user;
User: password reset;

Each log entry records:

UTC timestamp;
Severity level;
User IP address (or 127.0.0.1 if automated);
Logged in username (if applicable);
Event message;

It will look something like this:

WordPressAudit 2017-05-24 16:35:45 [warning] yourdomain.com 68.256.55.123 \"tiffany\" \"Deactivated plugin: look-see-security-scanner\"\n

Requirements

WordPress 4.7 or later.
PHP 7.3 or later.
Linux host.
Single-site instance.
Log file must be writeable by WordPress.

Privacy Policy

Jeepers Peepers records CMS events such as post and plugin changes to a standard system log for security and audit purposes. Where possible, these entries include the public IP address and/or WordPress username of the individual responsible.

This plugin does not send any of this information to remote locations or third parties.

Please note: Jeepers Peepers DOES NOT integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the very purpose of this plugin! Haha.)

\n","installation":"

Nothing fancy! You can use the built-in installer on the Plugins page or extract and upload the jeepers-peepers folder to your plugins directory via FTP.

To install this plugin as Must-Use, download, extract, and upload the jeepers-peepers folder to your mu-plugins directory via FTP. Please note: MU Plugins are removed from the usual update-checking process, so you will need to handle future updates manually.

\n","faq":"\n

\nIs this compatible with Multi-Site?\n\n

Sorry, no. This plugin can only be added to standard (single-site) WordPress installations.

\nThe log isn’t updating…\n\n

Make sure the log file exists. The default location is /var/log/wordpress/{YOUR_SITE_DOMAIN}.log, but this can be overridden by defining a constant in your wp-config.php file (see the relevant FAQ section below).
Make sure WordPress/PHP can reach the file. For PHP sites with open_basedir restrictions, this means whitelisting the path to the log file. If the hosting environment is chrooted or jailed, the log location will need to be within the same boundaries.
Make sure the log file’s ownership/permissions allow PHP to write changes to it. This varies by environment, but a good place to start is assigning the same owner:group to the log file used by your WordPress files.

\nDoes this require any theme or config changes?\n\n

By default, the log is written to /var/log/wordpress/{YOUR_SITE_DOMAIN}.log. If this path exists and works for you, then no, logging will happen without any intervention.

To modify the default behavior, you will need to define a couple constants in your wp-config.php file. See the relevant FAQ section below.

\nList of configuration constants\n\n

The following constants can be defined in your wp-config.php file to override the default behaviors.

(string) BLOBAUDIT_SITE_URL Your site’s domain, for logging purposes. By default, this will be your site’s domain name, lowercased, and without a leading www. subdomain.
(string) BLOBAUDIT_LOG_PATH The absolute path to the log file. Default: /var/log/wordpress/{YOUR_SITE_DOMAIN}.log

When using a custom log location, please choose one that is outside the web root. You don’t want just anybody looking at it. 🙂

\nLogging custom events\n\n

The plugin includes action callbacks you can trigger in your code to record a custom event.

// In order of severity...\ndo_action('syslog_debug', $message, $internal);\ndo_action('syslog_notice', $message, $internal);\ndo_action('syslog_info', $message, $internal);\ndo_action('syslog_warning', $message, $internal);\ndo_action('syslog_error', $message, $internal);\ndo_action('syslog_critical', $message, $internal);\n

All actions accept the following:

(string) $message The event message.
(bool) (optional) $internal Prefix the severity with an @ to mark it as “internal”. Default: FALSE

\n\n","changelog":"

0.5.3

[New] Log network requests.
[Improve] Minor code optimizations.

0.5.2

[New] Add privacy policy hook for GDPR compliance.

0.5.1

[New] Initial launch!

\n","screenshots":"

$\"Example$
Example log file.

"},"short_description":"An extensible tool for recording WordPress events to a system log.","download_link":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jeepers-peepers.zip","screenshots":{"1":{"src":"https://ps.w.org/jeepers-peepers/assets/screenshot-1.png?rev=2889645","caption":"Example log file."}},"tags":{"audit-trail":"audit trail","event-log":"event log","security":"security","syslog":"syslog","system-log":"system log"},"versions":{"0.5.1":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jeepers-peepers.0.5.1.zip","0.5.2":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jeepers-peepers.0.5.2.zip","0.5.3":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jeepers-peepers.0.5.3.zip"},"donate_link":"https://blobfolio.com/donate.html","icons":{"1x":"https://ps.w.org/jeepers-peepers/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=2889645","2x":"https://ps.w.org/jeepers-peepers/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2889645"}},{"name":"Trunc Logging – Auditing syslog for WordPress","slug":"trunc-logging","version":"1.0.6","author":"Trunc","author_profile":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dcid/","requires":"3.6","tested":"6.3.5","requires_php":"7.0","requires_plugins":[],"rating":100,"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":2},"num_ratings":2,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"downloaded":2319,"last_updated":"2024-02-08 6:56am GMT","added":"2022-11-10","homepage":"http://trunc.org/wordpress/","sections":{"description":"

The Trunc Logging plugin gives you visibility to all the activity inside WordPress. Logins, logouts, failed logins, new posts, new
\nplugins, etc. Every major activity from WordPress is stored for analysis and forensics purposes.

Tracked actions:

Logins
Failed logins
Posts / pages published
Posts / pages trashed
Posts / pages removed
Plugin installed
Plugin activated
Themes installed
Themes activated

And much more.

\n","installation":"

Installation is pretty simple.

Log into your WordPress administration panel,
In the sidebar, choose “Plugins” and then “Add New”,
Type “trunc” in the search box,
Install the option with the “By Trunc” at the foot,
Once activated, you will find a new icon in the sidebar with the Trunc logo. Go to the plugin’s dashboard.

Visit the Support Forum to ask questions, suggest new features, or report bugs.

\n","faq":"

More info here: Trunc WordPress.

\n\n

\nWhat is Logging / syslog?\n\n

Every server and application generate logs of their internal activities. WordPress doesn’t do it by default and this plugin provides
\nthis data.

\nDoes your plugin conflict with other security plugins?\n\n

It should not conflict with any other plugin.

\nWill this plugin impact the performance of my website?\n\n

It should not. It runs on the backend and only on certain admin actions.

\nDo the logs get stored to my database?\n\n

They are stored to a log file – and optionally sent to a remote syslog server.

\n\n","changelog":"

1.0.3

Fixing error on the password reset process + proper versions.

1.0.1

First version.

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