BruteGuard is a cloud powered brute force login protection that shields your site against botnet attacks.
As of April 2026, BruteGuard is a WordPress login plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPS Hide Login.
BruteGuard is a cloud powered brute force login protection that shields your site against botnet attacks.
BruteGuard is a brute force attack prevention plugin that guards you against botnets by connecting its users to track failed login attempts across all WordPress installations that use the plugin. Once you activate BruteGuard you become part of a inter-connected protection layer against botnet attacks.
Our plugin logs and blocks IPs across the entire network. The more users use BruteGuard the safer the whole network including you gets.
BruteGuard fully supports multi sites and is an additional security layer so can be used with any other security plugin.
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 5.9.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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