Protect your WordPress blog using .htaccess

Protect your WordPress blog using .htaccess

The .htaccess file have lots of possibilities. Today, let’s see how we can protect our WordPress blog from scripts injection, and unwanted modification of _REQUEST and/or GLOBALS.

Simply paste the following lines into your .htaccess file. This file is located at the root of your WordPress install.
Remember to always make a backup of your .htaccess file before editing it so, you'll be able to restore it if something went wrong.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]

Thanks to Oussama for those simple, but efficient lines of code!