Security Scan Results

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B

Good Security

16 issues detected

Scanned 4 months ago

16

Total

0

Critical

0

High

3

Medium

Info

WordPress version 6.9.1 detected

Info

WP_DEBUG is disabled (no PHP errors visible)

Medium

Missing security header: X-Frame-Options -- Prevents clickjacking attacks

How to fix: Add to .htaccess: Header always set X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" — prevents clickjacking attacks.

Medium

Missing security header: X-Content-Type-Options -- Prevents MIME-type sniffing

How to fix: Add to .htaccess: Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" — prevents MIME-type sniffing.

Info

Missing security header: Content-Security-Policy -- Controls resource loading

Info

Missing security header: Referrer-Policy -- Controls referrer information

Info

Missing security header: Permissions-Policy -- Controls browser feature access

Info

1 of 6 security headers configured

Info

SSL certificate valid (88 days remaining) — issued by Let's Encrypt

Info

HTTP correctly redirects to HTTPS

Medium

User enumeration possible via REST API -- found: ascheller, acaumont, bwormald, bsakla, bwebster

How to fix: Disable the REST API users endpoint with a plugin like Disable REST API or add a filter to block /wp/v2/users.

Low

wp-cron.php is publicly accessible (potential DDoS vector)

/wp-cron.php

How to fix: Disable WP-Cron in wp-config.php with define("DISABLE_WP_CRON", true) and use a real server cron job instead.

Low

External JS from popular domain: cdn.parsely.com (Tranco rank #3,428)

How to fix: This script is from a well-known domain (ranked in the top 100K globally). Likely legitimate, but verify it matches a service you intentionally added.

Info

3 trusted external script(s): challenges.cloudflare.com (Security), stats.wp.com (WordPress), www.googletagmanager.com (Google)

Low

1 external script(s) from popular domains (Tranco top 100K): cdn.parsely.com

How to fix: These scripts are from globally popular domains. They are very likely legitimate services but were not in our curated whitelist.

Checked against 11 blacklist services

Spamhaus DBL
SURBL
URIBL
SpamEatingMonkey
Barracuda
SORBS
Invaluement
URLhaus
OpenPhish
Google Safe Browsing
VirusTotal (70+ engines)

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