=== Limit Login Attempts Reloaded - Login Security, Brute Force Protection, Firewall ===
Contributors: wpchefgadget, nikitaglobal
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=FKD4MYFCMNVQQ
Tags: brute force, login security, security, firewall, 2FA
License: GPLv2 or later
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Stable tag: 3.2.2

Block excessive login attempts and protect your site against brute force attacks. Simple, yet powerful tools to improve site performance.

== Description ==

<a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com">Limit Login Attempts Reloaded</a> functions as a robust deterrent against <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/cracking-the-code-unveiling-the-mechanics-behind-brute-force-attacks/">brute force attacks</a>, bolstering your website's security measures and optimizing its performance. It achieves this by **restricting the number of login attempts allowed**. This applies not only to the standard login method, but also to XMLRPC, Woocommerce, and custom login pages. With more than 2.5 million active users, this plugin fulfills all your login security requirements.

The plugin functions by automatically preventing further attempts from a particular Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or username once a predetermined limit of retries has been surpassed. This significantly weakens the effectiveness of brute force attacks on your website.

By default, WordPress permits an unlimited number of login attempts, posing a vulnerability where passwords can be easily deciphered through brute force methods.

**Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium (Try Free with <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/premium-security-zero-cost-discover-the-benefits-of-micro-cloud/">Micro Cloud</a>)**
Upgrade to <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/plans/">Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Premium</a> to extend cloud-based protection to the Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin, thereby enhancing your login security. The premium version includes a range of highly beneficial features, including <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/features/ip-intelligence/">IP intelligence</a> to **detect, counter and deny malicious login attempts**. Your <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/failed-login-attempts-in-wordpress/">failed login attempts</a> will be safely neutralized in the cloud so your website can function at its optimal performance during an attack.

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= Features (Free Version): =
* **2FA** - Enable two-factor authentication for extra login security.
* **Limit Logins** - Limit the number of retry attempts when logging in (per each IP).
* **Configurable Lockout Timings** - Modify the amount of time a user or IP must wait after a lockout.
* **Remaining Tries** - Informs the user about the remaining retries or lockout time on the login page.
* **Lockout Email Notifications** - Informs the admin via email of lockouts.
* **Denied Attempt Logs** - View a log of all denied attempts and lockouts.
* **IP & Username Safelist/Denylist** - Control access to usernames and IPs.
* **New User Registration Protection (Micro Cloud Accounts)** - Protects default WP registration.
* **Sucuri** compatibility.
* **Wordfence** compatibility.
* **Ultimate Member** compatibility.
* **WPS Hide Login** compatibility.
* **MemberPress** compatibility.
* **XMLRPC** gateway protection.
* **Woocommerce** login page protection.
* **Multi-site compatibility** with extra MU settings.
* **GDPR** compliant.
* **Custom IP origins support** (Cloudflare, Sucuri, etc.).
* **llar_admin** own capability.

= Features (Premium Version): =
* **Performance Optimizer** - Offload the burden of excessive failed logins from your server to protect your server resources, resulting in improved speed and efficiency of your website.
* **Enhanced IP Intelligence** - Identify repetitive and suspicious login attempts to detect potential brute force attacks. IPs with known malicious activity are stored and used to help prevent and counter future attacks.
* **Enhanced Throttling** - Longer lockout intervals each time a malicious IP or username tries to login unsuccessfully.
* **Deny By Country** - <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/block-logins-by-country-in-wordpress/">Block logins by country</a> by simply selecting the countries you want to deny.
* **Auto IP Denylist** - Automatically add IP addresses to your active cloud deny list that repeatedly fail login attempts.
* **New User Registration Protection** - Protects default WP registration.
* **Global Denylist Protection** - Utilize our active cloud IP data from thousands of websites in the LLAR network.
* **Synchronized Lockouts** -  Lockout IP data can be shared between multiple domains for enhanced protection in your network.
* **Synchronized Safelist/Denylist** - Safelist/Denylist IP and username data can be shared between multiple domains.
* **Premium Support** - Email support with a security tech.
* **Auto Backups of All IP Data** - Store your active IP data in the cloud.
* **Successful Logins Log** - Store successful logins in the cloud including IP info, city, state and lat/long.
* **Enhanced lockout logs** - Gain valuable insights into the origins of IPs that are attempting logins.
* **CSV Download of IP Data** - Download IP data direclty from the cloud.
* **Supports IPV6 Ranges For Safelist/Denylist**
* **Unlock The Locked Admin** - Easily <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/how-to-unlock-your-site-if-you-are-locked-out-by-limit-login-attempts-reloaded/">unlock the locked admin</a> through the cloud.
* **Registration Page Protection** - Protect the registration page based on your rules and a real-time database of malicious IPs. Also protects WooCommerce and other supported plugins.

*Some features require higher level plans.


= Upgrading from the old Limit Login Attempts plugin? =
1. Go to the Plugins section in your site's backend.
2. Remove the Limit Login Attempts plugin.
3. Install the Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin.

All your settings will be kept intact!

Many languages are currently supported in the Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin but we welcome any additional ones.

Help us bring Limit Login Attempts Reloaded to even more countries.

Translations: Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Plugin uses standard actions and filters only.

Based on the original code from Limit Login Attempts plugin by Johan Eenfeldt.

= Branding Guidelines =
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded™ is a trademark of Atlantic Silicon Inc. When writing about the plugin, please make sure to use Reloaded after Limit Login Attempts. Limit Login Attempts is the old plugin.

* Limit Login Attempts Reloaded (correct)
* Limit Login Attempts (incorrect)

== Screenshots ==

1. Login screen after a failed login with remaining retries
2. Lockout login screen
3. LLAR Dashboard
4. Plugin App Settings
5. Plugin General Settings
6. Login Firewall & Login Access Rules
7. Debug
8. Support

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= What do I do if all users get blocked? =

If you are using contemporary hosting, it's likely your site uses a proxy domain service like CloudFlare, Sucuri, Nginx, etc. They replace your user's IP address with their own. If the server where your site runs is not configured properly (this happens a lot) all users will get the same IP address. This also applies to bots and hackers. Therefore, locking one user will lead to locking everybody else out. If the plugin is not using our <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/plans/">Cloud App</a>, this can be adjusted using the Trusted IP Origin setting. The cloud service intelligently recognizes the non-standard IP origins and handles them correctly, even if your hosting provider does not.

= How do I know if I'm under attack? =

An easy way to check if the attack is legitimate is to copy the IP address from the lockout notification and check its location using a IP locator tool. If the location is not somewhere you recognize and you have received several failed login attempts, then you are likely being attacked. You might notice dozens or hundreds of IPs each day. Visit our website to learn how can you <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/brute-force-attack-protection-the-best-tools-tips-to-keep-your-website-safe/">prevent brute force attacks</a> on your website.

= How can I tell that the premium plugin is working? =

After you upgrade to our premium version, you will see a new dashboard in your WordPress admin that shows all attacks that will now relay through our cloud service. On the graph, you'll see **requests** and **failed login attempts**. Each request will represent the cloud app validating an IP, which also includes denied logins.

In some cases, you may notice an increase in speed and efficiency with your website. Also, a reduction in lockout notifications via email.

= Could these failed login attempts be fake? =

Some users find it hard to believe that they could experience numerous unsuccessful login attempts, particularly when their site has just been established or has minimal human traffic. The plugin is not responsible for generating these failed login attempts. Newly created websites are frequently hosted on shared IP addresses, making it easy for hackers to discover them. Additionally, newly registered domain names are often crawled soon after creation, rendering a WordPress website susceptible to attacks. Such websites are attractive targets as security is not a primary concern for their owners. We've created an article that delves deeper into the issue of <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/could-these-failed-login-attempts-be-fake/">fake login attempts in WordPress</a>.

= What happens if my site exceeds the request limits in the plan? =

The premium plan’s resource limits start from 100,000 requests per month, which should accept almost any heavy brute-force attack. We monitor all of our sites and will alert the user if it appears they are going over their limits. If limits are reached, we will suggest to the user upgrading to the next plan. If you are using the free version, the load caused by brute force attacks will be absorbed by your current hosting bandwidth, which could cause your hosting costs to increase.

= What URLs are being attacked and protected? =

The URLs being protected are your login page (wp-login.php, wp-admin), xmlrpc.php, WooCommerce login page, and any custom login page you have that uses regular WordPress login hooks.

= Why is LLAR more popular than other brute-force protection plugins? =

Our main focus is protecting your site from brute force attacks. This allows our plugin to be very lean and effective. It doesn’t require a lot of your web hosting resources and keeps your site well-protected. More importantly, it does all of this automatically as our service learns on its own about each IP it encounters. In contrast, a firewall would require manual <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/should-i-block-ip-addresses/">blocking of IPs</a>.

= What to do when an admin gets blocked? =

Open the site from another IP. You can do this from your cell phone, or using Opera browser and enabling free VPN there. You can also try turning off your router for a few minutes and then see if you get a different IP address. These will work if your hosting server is configured correctly. If that doesn’t work, connect to the site using FTP or  your hosting control panel file manager. Navigate to wp-content/plugins/ and rename the limit-login-attempts-reloaded folder. Log in to the site then rename that folder back and whitelist your IP. By upgrading to our premium app, you will have the unlocking functionality right from the cloud so you’ll never have to deal with this issue.

= What settings should I use In the plugin? =

The settings are explained within the plugin in great detail. If you are unsure, use the default settings as they are the recommended ones.

= Can I share the safelist/denylist throughout all of my sites?=

By default, you will need to copy and paste the lists to each site manually. For the <a href="https://www.limitloginattempts.com/plans/?from=wp-details">premium service</a>, sites are grouped within the same private cloud account. Each site within that group can be configured if it shares its lockouts and access lists with other group members. The setting is located in the plugin's interface. The default options are recommended.

== Changelog ==

= 3.2.2 =
* Improved MFA rescue link compatibility on hosts with external object cache enabled.

= 3.2.1 =
* Fixed rescue link behavior and updated the format.
* 2FA is pre-selected for administrators; when no user groups are selected, 2FA stays disabled.

= 3.2.0 =
* Improved WooCommerce registration protection in cloud mode.
* Refactored third-party integrations into a unified architecture (WooCommerce, MemberPress).

= 3.1.0 =
* Added technical details to the network issue notice.
* Fixed logo rendering in Gmail MFA notifications.
* Improved local risk indicator thresholds and refactored rendering.
* Improved compatibility with WPS Hide Login, WooCommerce, and MemberPress login flows; added WooCommerce cloud registration checks.

= 3.0.2 =
* Hardened admin tab parameter (whitelist, strict checks) before loading tab views.
* Onboarding: redirect to Dashboard when setup is incomplete and a tab other than Dashboard is opened.
* Failed-login email subject: numbered placeholders for translation-friendly word order (e.g. for Dutch).
* Onboarding popup: hide body scroll while open, restore on close; focus modal content.

= 3.0.1 =
* Hardened MFA security.
* MFA UI improved.
* Refactored the codebase.

= Earlier versions =
For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/limit-login-attempts-reloaded/trunk/changelog.txt">changelog.txt</a> file.