Defender Security – Malware Scanner, Login Security & Firewall

5.0.2 ( 2025-02-14 )

• Improvement: Update 404 logic with AntiBot service to better detect and mitigate potential threats
• Improvement: Enhancing IP Detection in Defender to prevent blocking of server IPs

5.0.1 ( 2025-01-31 )

• Fix: AntiBot service sync issue
• Fix: AntiBot toggle behavior is inconsistent when managed on the Hub
• Fix: Usage Tracking improvements

5.0.0 ( 2025-01-27 )

• New: AntiBot Global Firewall
• Enhance: Global IP Blocker renamed to Central IP List and located under Local Firewall
• Enhance: Prevent execution of CREATE TABLE query on every page load
• Enhance: Scan lines about suspicious code are displayed even after deleting files
• Enhance: Update WPMU DEV IP management
• Enhance: Show Vulnerability details for Pro plugin version
• Enhance: Usage Tracking improvements
• Fix: Error while uninstalling Defender
• Fix: Wrong usage of WPMU DEV Dashboard settings function
• Fix: SUI Alert appears when trying to make any action to files detected by Malware Scanning
• Fix: PHP notices appear in logs when running a malware scan

4.12.0 ( 2024-12-09 )

• Enhance: Ability to scan malicious code in files in the site’s root
• Enhance: Optimize WAF traffic management
• Enhance: Optimize XML-RPC traffic management
• Enhance: Remove strict declarations for default WP filters
• Fix: Notice for _load_textdomain_just_in_time called incorrectly
• Fix: Update malware signature to avoid false positives
• Fix: Undefined array key warning when creating a new subsite on multisite if Audit logging is enabled

4.11.0 ( 2024-11-04 )

• Enhance: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7
• Enhance: Malware signatures update
• Enhance: Update SUI to the latest version
• Fix: Optimize security recommendations flow
• Fix: Malware Scanning can’t detect the suspicious code
• Fix: Max included file size in Malware Scanning isn’t working
• Fix: Detecting changes in files whose names match default folders
• Fix: SEOPress plugin files are being falsely flagged as suspicious

4.10.1 ( 2024-10-03 )

• Fix: Optimize XML-RPC traffic management

4.10.0 ( 2024-10-01 )

• Enhance: Update malware signatures to detect different infected files
• Enhance: Display notice on the Malware Scanning page if a file is missing or unreadable
• Enhance: Defender > Recommendations > Disable XML-RPC syncs with Hosting XML-RPC Protection
• Enhance: Improvements in deleting and exporting IPs
• Enhance: Translation improvements
• Fix: False positive in Malware Scanning for Toolset plugin
• Fix: Defender does not recognize phishing code
• Fix: Malware Scanning gets stuck on fresh multisite
• Fix: Text content not displayed in the Services upsell on the Malware Scanning page
• Fix: Security keys not getting updated
• Fix: Malware Scanning detects the old plugin file as modified
• Fix: 404 Detection > Duration Unit disappears when changing the Firewall logs count to 100

4.9.0 ( 2024-09-02 )

• New: Smart IP Detection method
• Enhance: Improved error handling of Malware Scan during checksum
• Enhance: Improved scan logic to detect plugins from wp.org
• Enhance: Mention Defender in Cloudflare and X-Forwarded-For IP detection notices
• Enhance: Usage Tracking improvements
• Fix: Google reCAPTCHA verification failure on WooCommerce my-account and checkout pages
• Fix: Google reCAPTCHA V3 error in the console log
• Fix: 2FA settings issue in WooCommerce
• Fix: Issues when uploading Config
• Fix: Getting ‘ERROR: Something went wrong’ when registering a new authenticator
• Fix: Copy error in translations
• Fix: Undefined array key in Audit logs
• Fix: Foreign key getting duplicated
• Fix: Broken error notice design in 2FA methods

Changelog for previous versions.