Wordfence Central
GoodBotVerifiedBOTA management and security monitoring agent used by the Wordfence plugin to communicate between a centralized dashboard and individual WordPress installations. Operated by Defiant, Inc..
What is Wordfence Central?
Wordfence Central is a management interface operated by Defiant, Inc. that allows administrators to oversee the security posture of multiple WordPress websites from a single dashboard. The agent facilitates communication between the Wordfence plugin installed on a site and the central management server, enabling remote security scans, configuration updates, and threat reporting. It acts as a trusted bridge for site owners to maintain compliance and security hygiene across their web infrastructure.
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Wordfence CentralWhy it crawls your site
The bot performs requests to synchronize security data, trigger malware scans, and verify the status of security configurations on connected WordPress sites. It uses these requests to ensure that the central dashboard reflects real-time security events and vulnerability statuses. Site owners can verify this traffic by ensuring the Wordfence plugin is correctly configured and that the site is registered within their Wordfence Central account.
Block or allow Wordfence Central
Add a Disallow rule for Wordfence Central in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Wordfence Central from crawling your entire site User-agent: Wordfence Central Disallow: / # Allow Wordfence Central full access User-agent: Wordfence Central Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Wordfence Central. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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