EnumGuard
EnumGuard is a focused WordPress plugin that stops attackers from confirming that a username or user ID exists. WordPress still prints those signals by default; EnumGuard closes the usual paths without hiding display names on posts. Under Settings → EnumGuard you get three tabs: Protections — overvi
About this tool.
EnumGuard is a focused WordPress plugin that stops attackers from confirming that a username or user ID exists. WordPress still prints those signals by default; EnumGuard closes the usual paths without hiding display names on posts.
Under Settings → EnumGuard you get three tabs:
- Protections — overview of which discovery paths are closed
- Settings — toggles and custom login / reset messages
- About — plugin info
Protections covered:
- Author ID queries ( ?author=1 ) that would otherwise redirect to the author archive
- Author archives and their feeds
- Author archive links printed in HTML
- author-{id} / author-{nicename} body, post, and comment CSS classes
- Core users sitemap ( /wp-sitemap-users-1.xml )
- Unauthenticated /wp-json/wp/v2/users (including ?rest_route= )
- REST _embed author payloads and author link headers
- Login error messages that distinguish “bad username” from “bad password”
- Lost-password responses (same confirmation whether the account exists)
- oEmbed author_url / author_name
- XML-RPC user-listing methods, with an optional full XML-RPC disable
- Author sitemaps and author archive URLs from Yoast, Rank Math, and The SEO Framework
Recommended protections ship enabled. Gutenberg still reaches the users REST API for logged-in editors. Display names stay visible. Login and reset protections also cover WooCommerce forms when WooCommerce is active. XML-RPC can be turned off completely if you do not need Jetpack, pingbacks, or the WordPress mobile app.
Getting started.
- 01Upload the enumguard folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
