Solid Security Pro Review 2025: Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

The Security Summary card serves as your central command center for immediate security concerns, zeroing in on current high-risk security issues and providing clear guidance on how to quickly take corrective action. Beyond immediate threats, it keeps you informed with the latest security news and their weekly vulnerabilities report, acting as both your emergency alert system and security newsletter rolled into one.

The User Security Profiles card gives you a comprehensive view of all your site's users and their security practices, allowing you to search for individual users or filter by role and quickly assess account security. You can identify users with weak passwords, those missing two-factor authentication, or abandoned accounts, and take immediate action by sending 2FA reminders or forcing password updates directly from the interface.

The Individual User Profile feature allows you to pin specific users' security profiles directly to your dashboard for continuous monitoring, displaying their role, password strength, password age, 2FA status, and last login time. This focused approach is perfect for keeping close tabs on high-privilege users or monitoring accounts you're concerned about without having to search through user lists repeatedly.

The Active Lockouts card provides real-time visibility into user accounts and IP addresses currently blocked from your site, listing all locked-out entities with clear explanations of why they were blocked. Since lockouts are temporary, you can quickly revoke them directly from this card, which is essential when legitimate users get accidentally locked out due to failed login attempts or CAPTCHA struggles.

The Lockouts card provides comprehensive analytics by tracking all lockouts over time, breaking them down into three categories: IP addresses (bot attacks), usernames (targeting common names like "admin"), and actual user accounts. User lockouts are particularly concerning and should normally be 0%, as they indicate either legitimate users having serious difficulties or attackers specifically targeting real accounts on your site.

Bans represent permanent restrictions that go beyond temporary lockouts, automatically created when IP addresses are locked out repeatedly for suspicious behavior or manually applied by administrators. This automated escalation system ensures persistent threats are permanently blocked, with the overview helping you understand the volume of serious threats your site faces and identify attack patterns.

The Banned IPs card provides detailed forensic information about each permanently banned IP address. When you select individual IPs from the ban list, you can see exactly when they were banned, the specific reasons for the ban, and any notes that security administrators have added about that particular threat. This detailed record-keeping is invaluable for understanding attack patterns and maintaining proper security documentation.

Beyond just viewing information, this card gives you complete control over your ban list. You can add your own notes about specific IP addresses, remove bans with a single click if you determine they were applied in error, or view the complete activity log for any banned IP to understand their full interaction history with your site. 

The Threats Blocked card presents a visual day-by-day chart showing security events where firewall rules have been triggered and successfully prevented attacks from reaching your site. This real-time visualization helps you understand the volume and frequency of attacks your site faces, with most blocked threats typically being brute-force login attempts or attempts to exploit known vulnerabilities in plugins and themes.

The card highlights the effectiveness of Solid Security Pro's "virtual patch" system, which protects vulnerable plugins even before official patches are released. You can also monitor the success of any custom firewall rules you've created, giving you complete visibility into your site's defensive capabilities. This feature transforms abstract security concepts into concrete, visual data, helping you understand just how much your security system is actually protecting you from daily threats.

The Trusted Devices card tracks successful logins from devices that users have designated as trusted, providing an additional layer of security through device recognition. When users log in, Solid Security Pro can "remember" their trusted devices, and for high-privilege users, you can require that they only log in from these pre-approved devices. This creates a more secure environment while maintaining user convenience for regular, legitimate access.

The security benefit becomes clear when you consider session hijacking attacks - once a device is trusted and associated with a user account, Solid Security Pro will force a logout if the user's device signature changes while they're interacting with the site. This behavior typically indicates malicious session hijacking, where an attacker has somehow gained access to a user's session. The Trusted Devices card charts daily logins from trusted devices, helping you monitor normal user behavior and quickly spot anomalies that might indicate security breaches.

The Update Summary card provides a comprehensive tally of all updates applied to your WordPress installation within a customizable time period. This includes updates to WordPress core, plugins, and themes, giving you a complete picture of how well-maintained your site's software is. Keeping software updated is one of the most critical aspects of WordPress security, as outdated software often contains known vulnerabilities that attackers actively exploit.

This feature helps you maintain oversight of your site's update schedule and ensures nothing falls through the cracks. You can customize the time period to view recent updates or look at longer-term patterns, helping you understand your site's maintenance rhythm. Since many security breaches occur through outdated plugins or themes, having clear visibility into your update history helps you stay on top of this crucial security practice and quickly identify if any components haven't been updated recently.