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    WordPress Hardening & Security Audit

    by Arnstein Larsen

    A professional security-ops audit and hardening suite for WordPress installs, including incident recovery runbooks.

    Updated Jun 2026
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    • Downloadable skill package
    • Works with Cursor, Codex CLI
    • 1 permission declared
    • Instant install

    Sample input

    Audit my WordPress site at example.com. It's a high-traffic WooCommerce store on a VPS. I'm worried about recent plugin vulnerabilities and brute force attacks.

    Sample output

    MODE: AUDIT | Tier: E3 Exposed (Public + PII/Money)

    | # | Finding | Domain | Reachable? | Impact | Effort | Priority | Fix | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | WooCommerce v7.2 (CVE-2023-XXXX) | 6 | Yes | Critical | Low | P0 | Update to v7.2.2 immediately | | 2 | XML-RPC open (Brute force risk) | 3 | Yes | Med | Low | P1 | Disable xmlrpc.php via .htaccess | | 3 | No 2FA for Admin/Shop Manager | 1 | Yes | High | Med | P1 | Enforce TOTP/Passkey via plugin |

    Top-3 Today: Update WooCommerce, Disable XML-RPC, rotate wp-config salts.

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    About This Skill

    Secure Your WordPress Infrastructure

    WordPress powers over 40% of the web, making it the primary target for automated mass-exploitation. Most breaches don't happen because of poor PHP code, but because of misconfigured environments, unpatched plugins, and weak access controls. This skill turns your AI agent into a Senior WordPress Security Operations Engineer focused on infrastructure hardening and incident response.

    What it does

    • AUDIT: Performs a comprehensive assessment of your live site's security posture, including third-party plugin/theme CVE exposure, configuration gaps, and transport security.
    • HARDEN: Delivers production-ready configuration snippets (wp-config.php, .htaccess, Nginx, Security Headers) and WP-CLI commands to lock down your install.
    • INCIDENT: Provides a step-by-step containment-to-recovery runbook for compromised sites, focusing on forensics before deletion to ensure attackers don't return.

    Why use this skill?

    Unlike generic GPT prompting, this skill uses a structured 10-domain hardening framework and a dynamic scoring system (Impact / Effort) to prioritize fixes. It distinguishes between "security by obscurity" and "security by design," ensuring you implement high-value controls like 2FA and CSP over cosmetic changes. Every recommendation includes a Verify: step so you can objectively confirm the fix worked.

    Supported Environments

    Works across Managed WP hosts, VPS (Docker/CloudPanel/Coolify), and shared hosting. It prioritizes WP-CLI workflows for efficiency but provides manual alternatives for dashboard-only access.

    Use Cases

    • Audit a live WordPress site for known plugin CVEs and configuration gaps
    • Generate a prioritized P0-P3 security findings table with remediation steps
    • Harden the wp-config.php and server headers to block common attack vectors
    • Execute an incident response runbook to clean and restore a compromised site
    • Verify security controls using curl and WP-CLI check-sums

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    File Scopes

    wordpress-hardening-security-audit/**

    Works with any SKILL.md-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode). No dependencies. Best with read access to the plugin/theme inventory and SSH/WP-CLI to apply and verify fixes; wp-admin-only and SFTP-only workflows are supported.

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