Access Wordfence’s Real-Time Malware Signatures

Purchase a Wordfence CLI Premium license for access to real-time malware signatures. Licensing is based on how many websites are being scanned and includes support from our Team. We recommend real-time malware signatures for hosting providers and other production environments. Wordfence CLI’s <remediate> sub-command allows you to automatically restore known files from WordPress Core, plugins and themes.

Wordfence’s Industry Leading Vulnerability Scanning

Wordfence CLI includes industry leading vulnerability scanning which is completely free for all license types. CLI’s vulnerability scanner uses our open vulnerability database which is continually updated by our team using our own research, and by triaging external research into the database as quickly as it is published.

What is the difference between the Wordfence Plugin and Wordfence CLI?

The Wordfence Plugin is an excellent overall security solution for WordPress and includes a firewall, two-factor authentication, brute force protection, and IP blocklist with many other features in addition to a malware scanner. Wordfence CLI provides more technical server administrators and operations teams with high performance malware and vulnerability scanning capability.

CLI’s malware-scan is parallelizable, meaning that it can take advantage of all your CPU cores when scanning, providing very high performance. CLI is also able to execute at a higher permissions level than your web server and website, giving it an additional layer of protection against compromise. CLI is also incredibly flexible and can be scheduled using cron and combined with other command line tools.