Qevix Shield is a complete WordPress security plugin for the parts of the site attackers hit first — the login form, XML-RPC, file access, and the URLs that leak information about your install. It stops brute force attacks, adds two-factor authentication and reCAPTCHA, scans for malware, and writes everything it blocks to a searchable activity log that can email you the moment something matters.
It installs
neutral: activating it changes nothing about your site. Every protection stays off until you switch it on, so you enable them one at a time and see the effect of each — no surprises, no lockouts on activation. (The audit log runs from the start; that is monitoring only.)
Why Qevix Shield
- Turning it on breaks nothing. Every protection ships off. Enable them one at a time and watch what each does.
- You can't lock yourself out. A one-line safe mode in
wp-config.php suspends everything without touching your settings. reCAPTCHA keys must pass a live test before they can be enabled, 2FA has recovery codes plus an admin reset, and lockouts are temporary.
- One plugin, the whole checklist. Hide login URL, brute force lockouts, 2FA, reCAPTCHA, password rules, XML-RPC control, malware scanning, file and server hardening, a firewall, and an audit log — instead of five single-purpose plugins.
- You hear about it. Every block, login, and admin action lands in a live, searchable log you can export to CSV. Critical events email you as one grouped summary — an attack wave is one message, not fifty.
- No measurable slowdown. With everything enabled, response times match the deactivated site within measurement noise. Nothing waits on an external service.
- It leaves your other plugins alone. No patching or overriding another plugin's code — WooCommerce, membership, and front-end login pages keep working, even with the hidden login URL on.
- Everything here is free. No account, no license key, no trial, no feature that expires, no greyed-out controls. The optional Pro add-on only adds capabilities of its own on top — it never unlocks something already in this plugin.
Login protection
- Hide the login page: move it off
/wp-login.php to a custom login URL of your choosing (off by default).
- Choose what a blocked request sees: a 404, your homepage, or a custom redirect.
- A honeypot field catches basic bots without affecting real visitors.
- Limit login attempts: rate-limit failed logins and temporarily lock out an IP, so a brute force run stops after a handful of tries instead of millions.
- Whitelist trusted IPs or whole CIDR ranges (IPv4 or IPv6) so they're never rate-limited or locked out.
Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- One-time codes from any authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password, and similar). Setup is per-user: scan a QR code, confirm a code.
- Recovery codes issued at setup with a one-click download, plus an admin reset — a lost phone is never a lockout.
- Require 2FA for any role you choose: an enforced user who hasn't enrolled sees only the setup screen until they do.
- Closes the XML-RPC side door: require the code appended to the password over XML-RPC, or block XML-RPC password logins for 2FA accounts. Application passwords are unaffected.
reCAPTCHA
- Google reCAPTCHA on your login, registration, and lost-password forms — the v2 "I'm not a robot" checkbox or invisible v3 scoring, your choice.
- Covers WooCommerce's my-account and checkout forms too, and a developer hook drops the same check into any other plugin's form.
- v3 adds a tunable score threshold and an optional email fallback: a real person the score misjudges gets a one-time sign-in link instead of a dead end.
- A required "Test keys" step proves your keys work before the switch can be turned on — a wrong-type key would otherwise break login for everyone, including you. Fails open if Google is unreachable, so an outage never locks you out.
Password policy
- Require a minimum length and character classes (upper, lower, number, symbol).
- Block passwords that are just the account's username or email.
XML-RPC protection
- One switch to disable all XML-RPC methods, or disable pingbacks only.
- Log every XML-RPC request with its method and whether it was allowed or blocked.
Malware scanner
- Scan WordPress core, plugins, themes, and uploads — pick any combination.
- Core files and plugins from WordPress.org are compared against their official per-file checksums, so tampering is spotted and untouched files are skipped instead of producing false alarms.
- A pattern engine flags suspicious PHP, obfuscated JavaScript, and common malware signatures in everything that can't be checksum-verified — themes, uploads, premium plugins, and any modified file.
- Report-only: it shows what it found without changing any files.
File & server hardening
- Block direct access to sensitive files (
.env, .git, wp-config.php, and more).
- Block backup and database dumps (
.sql, .bak, .tar.gz, .wpress), plus your own filenames or *.extension patterns.
- Disable directory listing and PHP execution in uploads. Writes the Apache
.htaccess rules for you, and shows the nginx equivalent to paste.
- Hide the WordPress version, REST API discovery links, and identifying server headers. Block author/user enumeration.
- A lightweight firewall blocks common SQL-injection, XSS, file-inclusion, and command-injection patterns plus known scanner user agents.
Sessions, audit log & dashboard
- Every user can see and end their own active login sessions; a password reset logs out that account's other sessions.
- The audit log (activity log) records every login, admin action, and block with the who/what/when/where — searchable, filterable, live-updating, CSV-exportable, with a configurable retention period.
- Critical events email your administrators, grouped into one summary instead of fifty (opt-in).
- A WordPress dashboard widget shows threats blocked in the last 24 hours and recommends the next protection to switch on.
- Grant other roles manage or read-only access to Qevix Shield without full
manage_options.
Qevix Shield Pro
Qevix Shield is complete on its own, and everything above is free and stays free. The optional Pro add-on (sold at
qevixlabs.com, never required) adds what happens
after detection:
- Malware remediation and deeper detection — quarantine or delete infected files, dismiss reviewed findings, extra web-shell and backdoor signatures, cron-abuse and rogue-admin checks, a database scan for injected content, and scheduled daily/weekly scans.
- Breached-password protection — a privacy-preserving check against the Have I Been Pwned database of a billion leaked passwords, plus a common-password blocklist, expiration, reuse prevention, and forced resets.
- Advanced login blocking — permanent IP blacklists, user-agent filtering, and auto-blacklisting of repeat offenders.
- Multi-channel alerts — SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and webhooks, as grouped digests routed by category and severity.
- Session & access control — an admin view of every user's sessions with idle-timeout enforcement, plus WP-CLI commands.
- Extras — trusted devices and an emailed backup code for 2FA, and granular XML-RPC (authenticated-only, allowlist, or trusted IPs).