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When it comes to testing the protection offered by WordPress security plugins, we seem to be alone in doing that, which isn’t good. We had someone contact us not that long ago who was complaining about our the accuracy of our testing results and vaguely citing results from another testing solution as producing different results. We offered to publish those results, but they claimed they couldn’t for an unclear reason. We also asked them some basic questions to try to understand what the testing actually involved. They didn’t appear to understand the questions, but they then cited another source for doing this type of testing, a web scanner provided by the developer of the NinjaFirewall plugin, NinTechNet. We were curious to see what that offered. Here is how that is described:
The Website Security Scanner is a tool you can use to test and rate your website security. It is not a hacking tool: it won’t hack your site and you can’t use it to hack someone else’s website either.
Whether you use a security application to protect your site (a web application firewall, a security plugin or extension) and need to know how efficient it is, or just want to test your own security rules, the Website Security Scanner is exactly what you need. [Read more]