How to Improve WordPress Security by Issuing HTTP Headers that Can Be Used to Prevent Common Exploits - Wordpress Secure Headers Helper package blog

About the Wordpress Secure Headers Helper Package

The package Wordpress Secure Headers Helper is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Send HTTP headers that implement security measures

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This class can send HTTP headers that implement security measures.

It can register a WordPress action function that will be called to set the response HTTP headers that are sent when pages generated by WordPress are served.

The class sets security related headers like:

- X-Frame-Options
- X-Content-Type-Options
- X-XSS-Protection
- Referrer-Policy
- Strict-Transport-Security
- Expect-CT

The class also provides a way to set other headers.

Conclusion

The Wordpress Secure Headers Helper can be downloaded from download page or be installed using the PHP Composer tool following instructions in the Composer install instructions page.

This package was considered notable for implementing its benefits in a way that is worth noticing.

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