Korisec Security – Vulnerability Scanner, Login Protection and Backup

Korisec is a hosted website security service. This plugin is the official WordPress client: it does not run port scans, Nuclei, or other scanners inside WordPress.

After you paste a plugin key from your Korisec account, the plugin:

1. Verifies this site with Korisec and binds the key to this host
2. Sends WordPress core, plugin, and theme versions so cloud checks can include software that is not visible from the public internet
3. Lets you start a cloud check from wp-admin and show grade, findings, and history
4. Lets the billing owner who issued the key manage plan, team seats, PDF reports, and alerts (Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, webhook)

Without a key, login protection and optional exposure remedies (XML-RPC, public usernames, install.php) still run locally. Those features do not send data to Korisec.

Free encrypted backups to Google Drive

Backups are free for every site and do not need a Korisec key.

• Backs up the full database and wp-content (plugins, themes, uploads) plus wp-config.php
• Everything is encrypted on your server before upload (XChaCha20-Poly1305). Google and Korisec never see your data
• Daily or weekly schedule, or back up on demand. Choose how many restore points to keep
• Each backup is verified after upload (size and checksum). A backup is only listed as restorable once it is verified
• One-click restore. A safety backup of the current site is always taken first
• Restores swap tables and folders atomically. If anything looks wrong you can undo the restore instantly
• Download a recovery key so you can restore onto a fresh WordPress install after a total loss
• Large sites are processed in small resumable steps, so it works on shared hosting

Paid plans, daily scan limits, and white-label PDFs are features of the Korisec service, not locked code inside this plugin. The plugin’s PHP is fully available under GPLv2 or later.

External services

Hosted security checks require a Korisec account and talk to https://api.korisec.com (unless you set KORISEC_API_BASE in wp-config.php).

• Terms of Use: https://korisec.com/terms.html
• Privacy Policy: https://korisec.com/privacy.html
• Plugin page: https://korisec.com/wordpress/
• Dashboard: https://app.korisec.com

Nothing is sent until a site administrator pastes a kr_live_… key and clicks Connect.

Data sent after Connect

Typical payloads include this site’s URL and host, WordPress and PHP versions, names and versions of installed plugins/themes (and whether they are active), heartbeat, scan start/status requests, and billing/team/alert settings for the Korisec account that issued the key.

Google Drive backups

Nothing is contacted until an administrator clicks Connect Google Drive on the Backups tab.

• Google Drive API (https://www.googleapis.com, https://oauth2.googleapis.com) stores the encrypted backup files in a “Korisec Backups” folder in your own Drive. The plugin asks only for the drive.file permission, so it can see only the files it created. Google’s terms: https://policies.google.com/terms and privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Korisec sign-in relay (https://api.korisec.com, the same service that runs Korisec’s own Sign in with Google) completes the Google sign-in and renews short-lived Google access tokens, because Google requires a client secret that cannot ship inside a plugin. The relay receives this site’s admin URL, a one-time public key, and (on each renewal) the Google refresh token. It returns the tokens encrypted to this site and stores nothing. It never receives backup contents or your encryption key.

Backups are encrypted before they leave your server. The encryption key is stored in this site’s database, wrapped with the salts in wp-config.php, and can be downloaded as a recovery key.