Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection
Acquired by StellarWP (Liquid Web).
Previously owned by iThemes.
New committers from that team's naming convention are expected and will not fire takeover events.
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Active installs 700k+
Current version 10.0.2
Added 2010-10-23
Last updated
2026-05-28 (1mo ago)
First seen by beacon 2mo ago
Total downloads 38,625,593
Statistics 2024-06-17 → 2026-07-01 · 745 days
Downloads today
3,944
7-day total 23,778
Week over week
▼ -9%
vs prior 7 days
30-day trend
rising
▼ -80% MoM
198k 148k 99k 49k 0 2024-06 2024-10 2025-02 2025-06 2025-10 2026-02 2026-07 198k 148k 99k 49k 0 2026-04 2026-04 2026-05 2026-05 2026-06 2026-06 13k 9k 6k 3k 0 2026-06 2026-06 2026-06 2026-06 2026-06 2026-06
Active versions
10.0 9.4 9.3 other
10.0 · 44.4% 9.4 · 17.6% 9.3 · 16.5% other · 14.6% 8.1 · 6.9%
Ratings
Support: 9/23 resolved
Alerts (0)
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Show 1 resolved alert
High code_scan_match
Resolved · code_scan_fp_class_vendor_cdn_enqueue
2026-05-05 11:21:19 (1mo ago)
Slug better-wp-security Finding count 1 Findings Pattern Kind File Line Snippet Confidence remote_enqueuebuiltinlib/icon-fonts/init.php44 wp_enqueue_style( 'ithemes-icon-font', "$url/icon-fonts.css" );medium
Resolved sha 639e942e709ff22d93f34e1b8d356e1f1a5a7b31
Copy JSON View raw JSON {
"slug": "better-wp-security",
"finding_count": 1,
"findings": [
{
"pattern": "remote_enqueue",
"kind": "builtin",
"file": "lib/icon-fonts/init.php",
"line": 44,
"snippet": "wp_enqueue_style( 'ithemes-icon-font', \"$url/icon-fonts.css\" );",
"confidence": "medium"
}
],
"resolved_sha": "639e942e709ff22d93f34e1b8d356e1f1a5a7b31"
}
SVN committers (10)
Accounts with actual commit access to better-wp-security on plugins.svn.wordpress.org, reconstructed from svn log. This is the list that matters for ownership changes — not the readme contributors.
Committer
Member since
Commits
First commit
Latest commit
Bit51 (part of the iThemes family)
2011-04-16
484
2011-07-22 · r413895
2013-08-24 · r761746
Chris Wiegman Young account
2010-09-20
264
2010-10-23 · r303375
2015-02-20 · r1095369
Chris Jean
2008-04-25
72
2015-01-27 · r1076902
2019-08-15 · r2140076
Timothy Jacobs
2012-05-26
52
2017-09-06 · r1725817
2025-07-16 · r3329246
shvv
2011-05-24
11
2025-09-16 · r3362729
2026-05-12 · r3530178
Aaron D. Campbell
2006-12-31
11
2015-04-14 · r1134178
2016-05-24 · r1423647
Jason Adams
2008-09-12
8
2023-10-31 · r2986997
2023-11-02 · r2988139
plugin-master
2007-03-09
1
2010-10-23 · r303323
2010-10-23 · r303323
Justin Frydman
2006-11-22
1
2026-05-28 · r3552793
2026-05-28 · r3552793
themerex
2017-08-14
1
2023-11-15 · r2996630
2023-11-15 · r2996630
Readme contributors (5)
Names the plugin's readme declares as contributors. A soft signal — anyone can be listed. The SVN access column is the ground-truth cross-reference: does this contributor actually commit code?
Versions (93 most recent)
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10.0.2
2026-05-28 · 1mo ago
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10.0.1
2026-05-12 · 1mo ago
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10.0.0
2026-05-12 · 1mo ago
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9.4.7
2026-03-30 · 3mo ago
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9.4.6
2026-02-25 · 4mo ago
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9.4.5
2026-02-11 · 4mo ago
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9.4.4
2026-01-29 · 5mo ago
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9.4.3
2025-11-18 · 7mo ago
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9.4.2
2025-10-30 · 8mo ago
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9.4.1
2025-09-16 · 9mo ago
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9.4.0
2025-09-16 · 9mo ago
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9.3.10
2025-07-16 · 11mo ago
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9.3.9
2025-07-08 · 11mo ago
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9.3.8
2025-04-28 · 1y ago
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9.3.7
2025-03-26 · 1y ago
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9.3.6
2024-12-04 · 1y ago
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9.3.5
2024-11-19 · 1y ago
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9.3.4
2024-11-11 · 1y ago
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9.3.3
2024-06-19 · 2y ago
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9.3.2
2024-03-22 · 2y ago
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9.3.1
2024-02-07 · 2y ago
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9.3.0
2024-01-25 · 2y ago
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9.2.0
2023-12-07 · 2y ago
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9.1.0
2023-11-15 · 2y ago
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9.0.3
2023-11-02 · 2y ago
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9.0.2
2023-11-01 · 2y ago
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9.0.1
2023-10-31 · 2y ago
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9.0.0
2023-10-17 · 2y ago
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8.1.8
2023-08-31 · 2y ago
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8.1.7
2023-07-19 · 2y ago
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8.1.6
2023-04-20 · 3y ago
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8.1.5
2023-03-23 · 3y ago
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8.1.4
2022-12-01 · 3y ago
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8.1.3
2022-10-12 · 3y ago
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8.1.2
2022-04-26 · 4y ago
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8.1.1
2022-04-14 · 4y ago
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8.1.0
2022-03-22 · 4y ago
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8.0.2
2021-08-11 · 4y ago
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8.0.1
2021-07-29 · 4y ago
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8.0.0
2021-07-28 · 4y ago
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7.9.1
2021-04-14 · 5y ago
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7.9.0
2020-12-18 · 5y ago
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7.8.0
2020-08-13 · 5y ago
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7.7.0
2020-04-20 · 6y ago
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7.7.1
2020-04-20 · 6y ago
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7.6.1
2020-02-28 · 6y ago
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7.6.0
2019-12-09 · 6y ago
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7.5.0
2019-11-14 · 6y ago
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7.4.1
2019-08-15 · 6y ago
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7.4.0
2019-06-10 · 7y ago
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7.3.3
2019-05-06 · 7y ago
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7.3.2
2019-03-19 · 7y ago
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7.3.1
2019-02-21 · 7y ago
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7.3.0
2019-02-14 · 7y ago
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7.2.0
2019-01-31 · 7y ago
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7.1.0
2018-08-15 · 7y ago
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7.0.4
2018-06-27 · 8y ago
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7.0.3
2018-06-18 · 8y ago
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7.0.2
2018-06-14 · 8y ago
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7.0.1
2018-05-25 · 8y ago
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6.9.2
2018-03-08 · 8y ago
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6.9.1
2018-03-02 · 8y ago
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6.9.0
2018-02-12 · 8y ago
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6.8.1
2018-01-29 · 8y ago
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6.8.0
2018-01-10 · 8y ago
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6.7.0
2017-11-15 · 8y ago
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6.6.1
2017-09-21 · 8y ago
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6.6.0
2017-09-06 · 8y ago
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6.5.1
2017-08-23 · 8y ago
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6.5.0
2017-08-23 · 8y ago
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6.4.0
2017-07-25 · 8y ago
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6.3.0
2017-07-06 · 8y ago
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6.2.1
2017-03-23 · 9y ago
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6.2.0
2017-03-14 · 9y ago
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6.1.1
2017-02-09 · 9y ago
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6.1.0
2017-02-08 · 9y ago
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6.0.0
2016-12-29 · 9y ago
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5.9.0
2016-12-08 · 9y ago
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5.8.1
2016-12-06 · 9y ago
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5.8.0
2016-12-05 · 9y ago
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5.7.1
2016-11-16 · 9y ago
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5.7.0
2016-10-31 · 9y ago
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5.6.4
2016-10-14 · 9y ago
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5.6.3
2016-10-11 · 9y ago
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5.6.2
2016-09-27 · 9y ago
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5.6.1
2016-08-10 · 9y ago
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5.6.0
2016-06-16 · 10y ago
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5.5.0
2016-06-07 · 10y ago
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5.4.5
2016-05-27 · 10y ago
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5.3.7
2016-05-02 · 10y ago
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5.2.1
2016-02-04 · 10y ago
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5.1.1
2015-11-10 · 10y ago
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5.0.1
2015-09-15 · 10y ago
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