AI writes new attacks faster than scanners can catalog them. The worst backdoors survive deactivation and hide where ordinary scanners never look.
Malware Sentry loads before every other plugin and kills threats at WordPress’s first breath, before infected code runs.
Free and open under GPL. Use it, fork it, resell it, as long as your version stays open and keeps the attribution.
Every infection vector is addressed simultaneously. No gaps. No recovery window for malware.
3
C2 channels severed
15
Security Gaps Hardened
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Bytes of plaintext data stored
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File. That Is It.
A direct comparison against the industry’s two biggest names. No marketing spin. Just capability gaps.
| Feature | Malware Sentry Free | Wordfence | Sucuri |
|---|---|---|---|
| WPOC Backdoor Defense | Full Protection | Partial | Partial |
| Early-Boot Blocker (mu-plugins) | Yes | Yes | No |
| All-at-Once Cleanup | Yes | No | No |
| Database & Drop-in Payload Scan | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Zero-Knowledge Privacy | Yes | No | No |
| Self-Healing Hardening | Yes | No | No |
Protection that goes deeper than your plugin folder, into the database, drop-ins, and core files where real backdoors live.
Real-Time Traffic Blocker
Severs all 3 known command-and-control pathways the moment Sentry activates. The attacker’s remote control of your site goes dark instantly.
Smart Security Wall
Automatically blocks known malicious scanners and bans any IP that hits your site five times in ten minutes, for an hour, before it finds a way in.
Lightweight Deep Scan
One-Click Hardening
Fixes fifteen common server and configuration weaknesses in a single click, then loads your homepage to confirm nothing broke, and auto-restores it within seconds if anything did. Hardening you can actually trust to run.
The free version of Malware Sentry tells you when something is wrong.
Malware Sentry Pro makes sure it never becomes a problem in the first place.
It blocks malicious uploads the instant they land, automatically quarantines threats, shuts down brute-force login attacks, and catches the obfuscated backdoors that rename themselves to slip past ordinary scanners.
Here is the part that matters most
When a new threat appears, Pro sites are patched immediately, while free sites wait up to 30 days for the update to clear the WordPress.org review queue.
In security, those 30 days are exactly when you get hacked. Pro closes that window.
| Tier Features | Free | Personal | Plus ⭐ Most Popular | Unlimited |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $79/yr | $159/yr | $299/yr |
| Sites covered | 1 | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Malware scanning + signatures | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Firewall (WAF) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Security updates | 30 days delayed | Instant | Instant | Instant |
| Real-time upload blocking + auto-quarantine | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic threat removal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Login firewall (brute-force protection) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Behavioral scanner (catches disguised backdoors) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Plugin + theme integrity verification | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weekly security reports | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| White-label client reports | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Support | Community | Standard | Priority | Priority + onboarding |
| Get Started | Download Free | Buy Personal | Buy Plus | Buy Unlimited |
The same detection engine protects any PHP app (Laravel, Symfony, plain PHP) and React, Next.js & Node projects, guarding against leaked API keys, card-skimmers, and poisoned dependencies.
One security standard across everything you build, reporting to one dashboard.
