The safest Security plugins for WordPress

A security plugin you trust to protect the site has to be maintained itself. The most popular WordPress security plugins, ranked by safety.

Ranked by Plugin Risk Score — i.e. by maintenance and safety signals, not features. Scores are live from the WordPress.org Plugin API and change over time.

1. 1 Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security wordfence 100%
2. 2 Loginizer loginizer 100%
3. 3 Limit Login Attempts Security – Login Security, 2FA, Firewall, Brute Force Prevention limit-login-attempts-reloaded 100%
4. 4 Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening sucuri-scanner 87%
5. 5 Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection better-wp-security 87%

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