WordPress has some big security issues which, if not managed correctly

cleanWPSecLogs

#! /usr/bin/env perl
 
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# Description
# Script to clean up security log tables on WordPress sites
# Some wordpress site security suites continously add logs, but do not offer the ability to clean up entries after
# a certain period of time. This can cause database tables to grow without relief until they threaten to fill
# the database partition
# This came to light recently when the half dozen WordPress sites we manage threatened to fill the database partition
# after a few years of monitoring.
#
# Before we ran this script, the 6G partition was 81% full, and after cleaning up, that dropped to 52%, so almost a 
# third of the database size was years of logs, or almost 2G. Of course, you can increase the disk space available on
# the partition, but we just wanted to keep 4 weeks of logs
#
# Designed to be run from a monthly or weekly cron job, it will look for all MySQL databases, then check each one in turn
# for the existence of the security log tables. If a database contains the tables, it will run the script to remove
# anything over $KEEPDAYS days old.
#
# this is a quick script and has only been tested on one single system, where the root user had access to all MySQL
# functions without password. Modifications will need to be made on systems which are more secure.
#
# This script is available via subversion at
# svn co http://svn.dailydata.net/svn/sysadmin_scripts/trunk/Wordpress/cleanWPSecLogs
# NOTE: the above repository is a working copy from Daily Data, which can be modified as required without notification
 
 
use strict;
use warnings;
 
my $KEEPDAYS = 28;
 
# clean up the output from mysqlshow
# if the name does not match the regular expression
# return null, else return the matched code
sub clean {
   my $name = shift;
   # regex matches any database beginning with c## for our ISPConfig setup
   # pretty sloppy regex, but works on our system
   $name =~ m/(c\d+[a-z0-9_]+)/i;
   return $1 ? $1 : '';;
}
 
# create a temporary sql file which is sent to all valid databases
# NOTE: it is the responsiblity of the script to remove the temp file (we don't do it here)
sub createSQL {
   use File::Temp;
   my $fh = File::Temp->new( SUFFIX => '.sql', UNLINK => 0, TEMPLATE=> '/tmp/cleanLogs.XXXXXXXXXX' );
   # NOTE: if you don't want any logs kept, you can use 'truncate wp_itsec_logs' instead, which is faster and also 
   # recovers disk space
   # delete anything older over $KEEPDAYS old from wp_itsec_logs. timestamp appears to be UT, so will be off by some
   print $fh "DELETE FROM wp_itsec_logs WHERE timestamp <DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL $KEEPDAYS DAY);\n";
   # same with wp_itsec_lockouts
   print $fh "delete FROM wp_itsec_lockouts WHERE lockout_expire < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL $KEEPDAYS DAY);\n";
   # next two commands recover disk space from tables. You can ignore this after the first run as very little will remain
   # between sessions
   print $fh "optimize table wp_itsec_logs;\n";
   print $fh "optimize table wp_itsec_lockouts;\n";
   close $fh;
   return $fh->filename; # returns the name of the temp file
}
 
my $sqlFile = &createSQL(); # makes the sql file to be run on each database
# print "$sqlFile\n";
 
# simple way to get list of all databases, but they need to be cleaned up afterwards
my @tables = `mysqlshow`;
for ( my $i = 0; $i < @tables; $i++ ) {
   $tables[$i] = &clean( $tables[$i] );
}
#die join( "\n", @tables ) . "\n";
 
# process each table
for ( my $table = 0; $table < @tables ; $table++ ) {
   next unless $tables[$table]; # skip anything that &clean zapped
   # command passed to mysql to determine if the table wp_itsec_logs exists in database
   my $command = "echo show tables like \\'wp_itsec_logs\\' | mysql $tables[$table]";
   #die "$command\n";
   my $valid = `$command`; # if $command has something, it is valid. If it is the empty string, no table, so not valid
   #die "'$valid'\n";
   if ( $valid ) {
      print "Found in $tables[$table]\n";
      print `mysql $tables[$table] < $sqlFile`; # run mysql against database passing the commands from the temp file in
   }
}
# remove the temp file
unlink( $sqlFile ) or die "Could not delete temp file $sqlFile\n";
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