Protection Against DDoS — WordPress Security Plugin

Name: Protection Against DDoS
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: WPChef

v1.5.2 Tested up to WP 5.4.21

Protection Against DDoS has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 49,392 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on April 29, 2020, tested up to WordPress 5.4.21.

Active installs

3,000+

Total downloads

49,392

Downloads, last 30 days

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available after 30 days of tracking

30-day growth

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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Protection Against DDoS well maintained?

Support threads resolved

No open threads

nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum

WordPress compatibility

Behind

tested up to WordPress 5.4.21, not yet with the current 7.1

Protection Against DDoS reviews and ratings

4 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews

5.0 out of 5

4 reviews

5★: 4
4★: 0
3★: 0
2★: 0
1★: 0

Apr 24, 2020

This is absolutely the best DDoS Protection plugin available

Our site was being attacked heavily using exactly the technics for which this plugin was creating for. I cannot thank the creator enough for providing it to the public free of charge. Thank you so much for your contribution. My only concern is that it hasn't been updated for quite sometime, I really hope it's not abandoned. I'm surprised this product doesn't have more reviews and more downloads, I guess it hasn't had enough promotion. Thank you so much @WPChef, please keep it alive!

Eli
Sep 9, 2019

This Plugin Saved Me

I was having a major DDOS against a number of my websites... the attack was taking down my entire VPS and affecting my entire business. I deployed this plugin to all of my sites and saw immediate relief from the attack. I took a screenshot of my load graph with an arrow at the point in time I deployed this plugin. My thanks to this author for a clever and effective plugin.

kcwebguy
May 4, 2017

Serious(ly) Lightweight Extra Security

When I first came across Protection Against DDoS, I was impressed by the simplicity of the idea and the effectiveness of its execution. Assuming that DDoS attacks will hardly be carried out by lone hackers armed with web browsers, it's reasonably safe also to assume that accepting and returning cookies will be among the least of their concerns. In which case the attack is stopped dead in its track very early on, in fact before WordPress is even asked to start up its engine. When I first tested this plugin, unfortunately it was not compatible with WP Multisite, yet. But within days of pointing this out to the developer, Protection Against DDoS was updated accordingly! The plugin has earned a permanent resident status in my toolbox!

Gahapati
Sep 3, 2016

Works very well

We use this when a WordPress site gets bombarded with bogus traffic and see the results within minutes. We can see how HTTP requests drop right after the plugin is installed. This plugin should be a must for any site.

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