BBQ Firewall – Fast & Powerful Firewall Security

Install, activate, and done!
Powerful protection from WP’s fastest firewall plugin.

BBQ Firewall is a lightweight, super-fast plugin that protects your site against a wide range of threats. BBQ checks all incoming traffic and quietly blocks bad requests containing nasty stuff like eval(, base64_, and excessively long request-strings. This is a simple yet solid solution for sites that are unable to use a strong Apache/.htaccess firewall.

Adds a strong firewall to ANY WordPress site
Works with all WordPress plugins and themes

Powerful Protection

BBQ protects your site against many threats:

• SQL injection attacks
• Executable file uploads
• Directory traversal attacks
• Unsafe character requests
• Excessively long requests
• PHP remote/file execution
• XSS, XXE, and related attacks
• Protects against bad bots
• Protects against bad referrers
• Protects against bad POST content
• Protects against many other bad requests

Works great with Blackhole for Bad Bots

Awesome Features

BBQ provides all the best firewall features:

• Rated 5 stars at WordPress.org
• 100% plug-&-play, zero configuration
• 100% focused on security and performance
• Blocks a wide range of malicious URL requests
• Fastest Web Application Firewall (WAF) for WordPress
• Based on the 6G/7G Firewall
• Scans all incoming traffic and blocks bad requests
• Scans all types of requests: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
• Protects against known bad bots and referrers
• Works silently behind the scenes to protect your site
• Hassle-free security plugin that’s easy to use
• Thoroughly tested, error-free performance
• Extremely low rate of false positives
• Compatible with other security plugins
• Regularly updated and “future proof”
• Firewall < 10 kilobytes in size
• Lightweight, fast and flexible

For advanced protection and features, check out BBQ Pro »
BBQ = Block Bad Queries

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

BBQ Firewall is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

• The Tao of WordPress
• Digging into WordPress
• .htaccess made easy
• WordPress Themes In Depth
• Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress

And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:

• BBQ Pro – Super fast WordPress firewall
• Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
• Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys
• GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
• Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
• USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms

Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂