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Prevent user name and email leakage

Stops user name enumeration and other type of user name and email leakages.

By Mark-k·Privacy·Free
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·0 active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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As of April 2026, Prevent user name and email leakage is a WordPress privacy plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent.

0/5Rating
0active installs
1.2K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Stops user name enumeration and other type of user name and email leakages.

Specifically does the following:
1. When the site is configured to use pretty permalinks, the plugin will prevent
the automatic redirect of usrl which include user ID, like example.com/?author=1, to
something like example.com/author/admin which will leak the existence of a user
named admin which can be used in further brute force attacks.
(This is also know as “user enumeration”).

  1. With the REST API restrict user name related information (actual user name
    and user posts page URL) to only admin users.

  2. Preventing authentication failure notices on the login page to disclose
    the existence of user names/user emails resulting from displaying different
    messages hen the user is incorrect and whe…

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Compatibility

WordPress4.5+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29
PHP7.0+ required

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Changelog

1.0.0 – December 25th 2017

  • Initial release
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Mark-kMark-k
Plugin Info
Version
1.0.0
Last Updated
Apr 22, 2018
WP Requires
4.5+
Tested Up To
4.9.29
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
0
Downloads
1.2K+
Added
Dec 25, 2017
Business
Free

Tags

privacysecuritycalmpressuser enumeration

Developer

M
Mark-k
7 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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