Tag: secure wordpress media
09/13/2018
How to protect WordPress media files and only allow the users who uploaded them to view
Hello! In the past we have written about how to protect your WordPress media files. In the past exercises we utilized a strategy to set a session cookie with encrypted details that can be read and validated at the http service (i.e. nginx) as well as application (php/wordpress) level. Since then we have refined this […]
05/13/2016
Protect and lock down your WordPress media files
Hello! Occasionally it was necessary for us to lock down some or all of the WordPress media library from public viewing, indexing. The reasons why this would be necessary can vary from sensitive information leakage to private user information protection (i.e. custom user media files uploaded on a per user account basis). Either way, there […]