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WP Umbrella Security Add-on

Full WordPress security, without another tool to manage.

The kind of protection you'd expect from a full security stack, built right into WP Umbrella.

Protect your sites

No credit card required · 2€ / site / month

80,000+
WordPress sites protected
5,000+
agencies and freelancers
Every 6h
vulnerability scan on every site
Daily
malware scan, off your server

5,000+ agencies use WP Umbrella to run and scale their care plans

The Admin Bar
Maintenance WP
Smack Happy
Meta Digital
Geek Tonic
Why it's different

One system. Your whole portfolio. Every security angle covered.

Protect, detect, understand, and recover across every WordPress site you manage, without adding another plugin to slow your sites down.

One system

Security, backups, updates and monitoring work together in one place, for all your sites.

Zero impact

Security that doesn't slow your sites down. No extra plugin. No extra load.

Proactive, not just reactive

Don't just detect malware. Stop potential attacks before they cause damage.

Layer 1 · Free

The baseline should be non-negotiable. So we made it free.

Already included with your WP Umbrella subscription, on every site, at no extra cost.

Vulnerability monitoring, every 6 hours

Every plugin and theme on your sites is checked against known vulnerabilities every 6 hours. You get alerted the moment a risk shows up, before it becomes a real problem.

Hardening rules, applied per site

A set of baseline WordPress hardening rules is available for every site, and it's your choice which ones to enable. One toggle turns on a single rule, or all of them at once.

Site Health insights in your security dashboard

WordPress Site Health results are surfaced directly in your security dashboard. You see what needs attention across every site, in one place.

Security updates priority pass

Automatically install security updates as soon as they're available, without waiting for your regular update schedule.

Reliable backups you can always restore

If a site is compromised, restore a clean backup in one click and get back online safely, as quickly as possible.

What you already have
Vulnerability monitoring Hardening rules Site Health Priority security updates Backups
What the Security Add-on adds
Firewall & virtual patching Daily malware scanning Security activity log Network IP blocklist
Layer 2 · Security Add-on

One toggle, and the whole layer is live.

Attacks turned away before they land, threats flagged as they happen, files checked every day, and a blocklist that grows with every site on the platform.

Recorded security events, including an attempt to collect usernames blocked by WP Umbrella
Blocked at the edge Zero code changed

Firewall and virtual patching

The hole is closed before the fix exists.

When a vulnerability goes public but its patch has not shipped, the Patchstack powered firewall closes it at the edge. Exploit attempts are turned away without a single line of your plugin or theme code being touched.

  • Virtual patching applied ahead of the vendor fix
  • Your plugin and theme files stay untouched
  • Room to test the real update instead of rushing it
WP Umbrella security activity log: brute-force attempts flagged, other checks all clear
Flagged as it happens 8 checks per site

Security-driven activity log

One verdict per site, not a wall of logs.

Eight checks run continuously on every site and resolve to a single status you can read at a glance. When one of them needs you, the alert already says what happened, where, and what to do about it.

  • Brute-force attempts, new admins, unusual logins, file changes
  • Every alert arrives with its next step
  • Searchable history of every security event
WP Umbrella malware scan: no malware detected, with files awaiting review
Checked every day Daily scan, off your host

Daily malware scanning

Anything that slipped through gets a name.

A daily pass over your files puts a name on whatever prevention missed. The work happens on our infrastructure, so a site being scanned stays exactly as fast as it was.

  • Runs on our infrastructure, not on your host
  • Dismiss the files you have checked yourself
  • Expert cleanup on demand when a finding is real
WP Umbrella hardening protections, including Block known attacker IPs
Learned across the network 80,000+ sites feeding it

Network-learned IP blocklist

Someone else gets attacked, you get protected.

Every login attack on the platform feeds one shared blocklist. An address caught on another agency's site is already turned away from yours, which is the one advantage a tool watching a single site can never have.

  • An IP caught anywhere is blocked everywhere
  • Applied to your login page before it reaches you
  • Nothing to configure, nothing to maintain
The network effect

An attack on one site protects every other site you manage.

Security tools that only watch your own sites can only react to what already reached you. WP Umbrella watches login attacks across the whole platform, so a threat seen anywhere becomes a rule everywhere.

  1. 01 An attack hits one site A brute-force run starts against a site on the network, not necessarily yours.
  2. 02 The signal reaches the network The attacking IP is identified and added to the shared blocklist.
  3. 03 Every other site is protected in advance That IP is turned away at your login page before it ever reaches your site.

Included in the Security Add-on. Nothing to configure.

Activate the Security Add-on

2€ / site / month

What you'd normally pay hundreds per year for in dedicated security tools, built into WP Umbrella for a fraction of the cost.

Standalone plugins: 8–25€/mo WP Umbrella: 2€/mo
On-demand services

Expert help, only when you need it.

No monthly retainer for a service you may never use. Bring in an expert the day a site actually needs one.

Find out what happened

Security Intelligence Report

20€ one-time, per site

A full review of the files, the database, the configuration and the access history, turned into a report you can read in one sitting and hand to a client.

  • Every finding with its severity, its evidence and its action
  • A dated reconstruction of what happened, built from your own records
  • What was ruled out, stated explicitly
  • A prioritised plan, with the first steps marked for today
  • Indicators you can copy and search across your other sites
Optional

Managed cleanup

180€ one-time intervention

If you would rather not work through the list yourself, we carry out the remediation and hand you a before and after report.

  • Contain first, then rotate every credential the leak exposed
  • Close the exposed paths at the server, not in a plugin setting
  • Reinstall core and plugins from clean vendor sources
  • Remove the leftovers, then re-scan the whole site
  • Harden: file editor off, forced HTTPS, two factor set up

What we need: SFTP or FTP access. Everything else is handled as part of the cleanup.

On the cleanup we commit to an obligation of means: every step is applied, but no one can guarantee against reinfection until the way in is closed.

Turn it on. And drop the extra security plugins.

WP Umbrella Security Add-on gives you the full WordPress security stack, without the stack.

Nothing to configure. Nothing to maintain. Flip one toggle, and every protection from the Security Add-on is live.

1. Add your site
If you don't already have it in WP Umbrella
2. Flip the toggle
One switch, no setup screens
3. Secured
Rest easy knowing WP Umbrella is protecting your sites 24/7
Get started

Two ways in.

Existing account

Already using WP Umbrella?

One toggle in your dashboard turns it on for a site. No setup screens, nothing to configure.

New account

New here?

Start free and get security, backups, updates, monitoring and reporting from day one.

I used ManageWP for years, but I felt like it just got outdated. I had issues with their support which made me lose hope and that's when I moved to WP Umbrella.

Jeffrey Dalrymple
Jeffrey Dalrymple · Founder @ Lytbox

When a Cloudways customer asks us what the best WordPress management tool is, we are happy to recommend WP Umbrella.

Muhammad Saad Khan
Muhammad Saad Khan · Product Marketing @ Digital Ocean

After trying virtually every management tool out there, I've fully moved my agency to WP Umbrella, and I'm convinced I won't need to look further.

Kyle Van Deusen
Kyle Van Deusen · Founder @ The Admin Bar

Frequently asked questions

No. Malware scanning and firewall checks run off your server, not on it, so there is no added load on page performance.

You can, but it is redundant. The add-on already covers firewall, malware scanning, activity logging, and vulnerability protection.

You get an alert immediately, and virtual patching can block known exploits before an official fix is released.

WP Umbrella detects known vulnerabilities affecting WordPress core, plugins, and themes, using trusted vulnerability data sources like Patchstack.

Virtual patching blocks exploit attempts targeting a known vulnerability at the firewall level, before the fixing update is applied or even released, without modifying plugin or theme code. It buys agencies time to plan and test a proper update without leaving sites exposed. The durable fix is still the update.

Every plan includes vulnerability monitoring (checked against the Patchstack database every 6 hours, with one-click fixing updates), Site Health checks with dismissible warnings, the security hardening toggles, the platform Activity Log, and uptime, PHP error, and performance monitoring. The Security add-on adds the active protection layer: the firewall with virtual patching, the network-learned IP blocklist, the Security-Driven Activity Log, and daily malware scanning.

The daily scanner lists every flagged file in the Malware section. Files you have verified yourself can be dismissed. If the scanner flags a real infection, malware cleanup is available on demand: contact support and the team handles the removal with you. Your backups remain the recovery path for the worst cases.

Yes. Security status and vulnerabilities are visible across your entire portfolio, allowing agencies to prioritize and act consistently at scale.

Trusted by 80,000+ sites

Full WordPress security, without another tool to manage.

Join the agencies who dropped their security plugin stack and run everything from WP Umbrella.

  • Firewall and virtual patching powered by Patchstack
  • Daily malware scanning across your whole portfolio
  • Security-driven activity log with actionable alerts
  • Expert audit and cleanup available on demand
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