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Wordfence Security 9.0.1 Released
What’s new in Wordfence Security 9.0.1
Released: September 8, 2026
Active installations: 5,000,000
Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Requires PHP 7.0
Changelog
- Improvement: UX enhancements for passkey authentication and general login security
- Improvement: GeoIP database updated
- Fix: Improved error handling in WAF request handlers and XML-RPC parser
- Fix: Fixed an issue with translations not showing on the Login Security Settings tab
- Fix: Addressed several potential PHP 8.5+ deprecation notices
- Fix: Reworked MD5 hash use in MySQL to avoid deprecation in 9.7+
Previous releases
9.0.0 — August 10, 2026
- Improvement: Added support for passkey authentication
Available for both free and premium installations
- Can be enabled for any user role (multisite support is currently limited)
- WooCommerce integration
- Support for custom authentication integrations
- Improvement: GeoIP database updated
8.2.2 — May 13, 2026
- Improvement: Better presentation of Live Traffic data on wide screens
- Improvement: Increased legibility of token fields
- Improvement: Reworked the pagination of the Blocking page for a better UX
- Improvement: Country blocking token field can now expand to show all entries
- Improvement: Performance improvements for the activity log and better pause behavior on window blur/focus