+42%
year over year
more vulnerabilities exploited
The discovery-to-exploit race is accelerating.
Protection for vulnerabilitiesno one has discovered yet.
Every flaw that gets disclosed spent months on real sites first — no name, no patch, no alert. Atomic Security guards the few actions every exploit must take, so the attack fails while the flaw is still a secret.
BEFORE DISCLOSURE · RULES BUILT FOR YOUR SITE · ZERO CONFIG
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The window
Every vulnerability was undiscovered first.
A flaw ships inside a plugin, theme, or WordPress core and runs on real sites for months with no name and no signature. The next disclosure is already on someone's site today — possibly yours.
46%
at disclosure
have no patch that day
Named does not mean fixed.
2M+
WordPress sites
taken down by major flaws
Across the last five years.
Built for your site
Security rules generated for your site. Not for everyone's.
Generic rules break real sites. Atomic Security reads your site's architecture and writes rules for that site alone.
- 4.1Reads your architecturePlugins, themes, tables, users, and settings shape the rules.
- 4.2Different sites, different rulesA store keeps registration guarded; a brochure site closes it.
- 4.3Refreshed dailyRules regenerate as the site changes. You configure nothing.
Context
An external firewall sees packets. This one sees WordPress.
Two requests can be byte-for-byte alike and mean opposite things — an admin doing their job, or an exploit minting one. Only context inside WordPress can tell them apart.
The comparison
Four firewalls, side by side.
MalCare against Wordfence, Sucuri, and Cloudflare — on the differences that decide whether an attack gets through.
| Architecture | MalCare | Wordfence | Sucuri | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deeply integrated with WordPress | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Customized rules for each site | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Protection against zero-day attacks | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Automated whitelisting / blacklisting | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Impact on site resources | Low | Very high | — | Low |
| Blocking legitimate users | Low | Very high | — | Low |
A firewall that blocks your customers gets switched off — and then protects nothing.
Case study
WordPress core shipped a flaw in 2022. Protected sites were never exposed.
The Avatar block left names unescaped for nearly two years — stored XSS on every WordPress site, exploitable without logging in. Atomic-protected sites were covered before the flaw had a name.
- Exploitable by unauthenticated visitors through comment blocks — blocked anyway
- Covered for the full two years before a patch existed
- Patched in WordPress v6.5.2 on April 9, 2024 — protected sites had nothing to do
- Same result for plugin zero-days and two WordPress 6.8+ core flaws in July 2026
The suite
Other defenses start when a flaw is disclosed. Atomic Security starts before.
Each MalCare layer begins at a different moment on a flaw's timeline. This layer covers the part nothing else can.
BEFORE DISCLOSURE
Atomic Security
Guards the targets while the flaw is still unnamed.
DAY ZERO
Vulnerability scanner
Alerts you the day a flaw in your stack is disclosed.
HOURS AFTER
Vulnerability Shield
Virtually patches it within hours of disclosure.
AT THE PATCH
Safe updates
The permanent fix, regression-tested.
ALWAYS
Scanner & removal
The backstop, if anything ever gets through.
In their words. Blocked attacks they never had to see.
Rated 5 out of 5
It was a shocking revelation! MalCare sends few security notifications, so one day out of curiosity I checked their firewall section. I was pleasantly surprised that 100s of attacks were being quietly blocked by Atomic Security's proactive defense! I really like this "strong & silent" protection.
Jo WalthamCallia WebRated 5 out of 5
I was on the beach with my family when MalCare notified me of a plugin vulnerability across 50 of my sites. With one click on my smartphone, all sites were fixed within minutes.
Paul LaceyWordPress ExpertRated 5 out of 5
I had been running iThemes, WordFence & Sucuri, but they kept getting hacked. Then I installed MalCare, which quickly found the malware and cleaned up the entire site.
Adam SilverConciergeWP · FounderRated 5 out of 5
Best login protection ever! We handle hundreds of sites, and I'd heard bad stories about brute force attacks & password hacking… but thankfully we never had to worry about this because of MalCare. I'm sure this saved us from many sleepless nights!
Robert AbelaWP Activity LogCommon questions, answered.
By guarding what the exploit must eventually do, not what it looks like. Exploits vary endlessly, but their goals come from a short list — create an admin, escalate a role, write a file, alter options. Those actions are guarded on your site today, whatever flaw next tries to reach them.
Yes — but one that lives inside WordPress with full context of its APIs, rather than outside watching packets. That context is why it can tell a legitimate role change (an admin, in wp-admin) from an exploit doing the “same” thing.
Site-specific rules exist precisely to avoid that — a store keeps open registration, a brochure site doesn’t, and the rules refresh daily as your site changes. On resource impact and false-blocking, we measure “low” where some alternatives measure “very high.”
No. Rules are generated from your site's architecture on installation and regenerated daily. The intended experience is silence — with hundreds of quiet blocks in the log when you go looking.
No — it covers the window they can't. Those layers begin at disclosure; Atomic Security protects during the months before a flaw is ever named. You want the whole timeline covered.
Yes — including a stored-XSS flaw in WordPress core itself that sat undiscovered for ~2 years and was exploitable without logging in. Atomic-protected sites were covered before the patch existed, and the same holds for plugin zero-days and two WordPress 6.8+ core vulnerabilities in July 2026.
The same answer holds. AI changes how fast flaws are found — it doesn't change what an exploit must do once inside. The targets stay the same, and the targets are what's guarded.
Yes — WP-Radar, our open-source testing tool, gives a deterministic answer to “is my site secure?” against any security stack, including ours.
The next flaw is already out there. Be protected before it has a name.
Rules built for your site, refreshed daily, zero configuration — working from the day you install it.
RULES BUILT FOR YOUR SITE / REFRESHED DAILY / WORKS ON ANY HOST