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Melapress Login Security changelog

This is the plugin’s changelog, which is mainly a detailed list of all the plugin changes and bug fixes introduced in every version update. Refer to the plugin release notes for a high level overview of what is new and improved with every plugin version update.

1.2.2 (2024-03-01)

New feature

  • Added an editable message in the “User login time restrictions” section for when users try to log in during restricted times.

Plugin updates

  • Removed redundant code for an improved overall speed and performance.
  • Added logic check and notice for users in regards to the ‘From email address’ used by the plugin when using the “import settings” feature.
  • Users can now remove default policies over WordPress forms from the ‘Forms & Placements’ plugin page.
  • Tweaked how the “Run inactive check” button acts when it is manually run by the administrator (Locked Users table).
  • Applied a number of UX improvements to the User login time restrictions settings area.
  • Fixed a couple of broken URLs in the Free edition’s UI used for help text etc.
  • Updated the plugin’s branding.

    Bug fixes

    • Updated a broken URL of an SVG used inside the plugin’s UI.
    • Fixed a potential crash that could occur when the plugin was running on sites running on PHP 7.2.
    • Fixed: user data and plugin settings was not removed upon uninstall in the Free edition, even when the setting is enabled.
    • Fixed an edge case that could cause a wizard to be prompted inside the plugin dashboard, in regards to missing Email Templates content.
    • Fixed: an edge case fatal error triggered when the “Remove all plugin data on uninstall” setting is enabled in the Free edition.

    1.2.1 (2024-02-01)

    Improvements

    • Updated the plugin’s branding (was still using old logo and artwork).
    • Upgraded the Freemius SDK to 2.6.2.
    • Added support for the upcoming new Premium plains.

    1.2.0 (2023-10-03)

    New features

    • User login time restrictions: restrict the time and days users can log in to the website
    • Settings importer & exporter: export the plugin’s settings for backup purposes and / or to import the settings to new plugin installs.
    • Setting to enable/disable individual emails the plugin sends to users to notify them about changes to their user account.

    Plugin improvements

    • Support for the WooCommerce user registration form: add the login and password policies with just a click.
    • Failed login error messages by the plugin are now displayed correctly on Memberpress powered forms / websites.
    • The plugin admin notices only appear on appropriate admin pages.
    • Applied various styling and UX improvements to the admin settings and the plugin’s UI.
    • Improved the integration script so now the PW Strength JS can be triggered via custom JS.
    • The change the login page URL setting now available in own admin area.
    • Improved user-facing error messages for both Memberpress and Ultimate Member.
    • Users restricted from accessing front-end pages on Memberpress + WooCommerce pending a forced password update.

    Bug fixes

    • The strings ‘wp-activate’ and ‘wp-signup’ are no longer blocked in the Custom Login URL settings.
    • Fixed bug in password history which would cause the initial user password to not be stored.
    • Exempt users setting no longer accepts duplicate entries.
    • Fixed: PHP 8.1 deprecation errors.
    • Fixed: Bulk Actions not working within Inactive Users page
    • Fixed: Error causing wrong email to be sent on user unblock due to failed logins.
    • Fixed an error on multisite networks which could cause some policies to be ignored when logging in via a child site.
    • Password hints are displayed correctly on Ultimate Member.
    • Fixed potential Fatal error when password reset requests are blocked on Memberpress.
    • Fixed JS to ensure PW hide/unhide buttons function as expected on Memberpress forms.
    • Ensure any password(s) updates adhere to all policies on third party forms.
    • Fixed JS bug on multisite networks bug which would cause an empty popup to appear when toggling ‘disable password reset’ checkbox.

    Other improvement

    • Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version (addressing a security issue).

    1.1.1 (2023-07-05)

    Improvements

    • Improved contextual help text around the Login access settings page.
    • Added further help text to third-party forms area.
    • Renamed Failed login policies to Login limitation policies in settings.

    Other improvement

    • Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version (addressing a security issue).

    1.0.0 (20230302) – Plugin renamed

    Release notes: Announcing Melapress Login Security 1.0.0

    New Features:

    • Free edition of the plugin now available on the WordPress plugins repository.
    • One-click integration with WooCommerce, LearnDash, Ultimate Member, BuddyPress and bbPress: add password policy checks to forms from these plugins with just a click.
    • Editable email templates: the text of all the plugin\’s emails can be edited using the WordPress editor.

    Improvements & other changes:

    • New plugin slug: melapress-login-security.
    • New plugin menu name: Melapress Login Security.
    • WordPress’ “Generate Password” button creates a password that matches the policies.
    • Added a configurable time limit users can configure to specify the time period required to reset the failed logins count in the [Failed Logins Policies]() feature.
    • In the Failed Logins Policies usrs can now specify minutes instead of hours, enuring no accounts are locked for a very long time.
    • Updated code to adhere to coding standards and formatting.
    • Improved support for running the plugin on wesites with custom file structure (WordPress core files are no longer called directly).
    • Beefed up security; added much more sanitization and validation, and escaping user input etc.
    • Reviewed and improved the text and help text in the plugin.
    • Improved the UI of the password suggestions in the password reset page.
    • Updated the Freemius SDK to version 2.5.3.
    • Consolidated the “Redirect user to password reset” code to one class.
    • Reviewed and improved all the text of the email templates.
    • Updated the password-strength-meter.js to avoid any potential conflicts.
    • Removed quite a bit of redundant code.
    • Better support for passwordless logins: plugin now completely bails out when a user is using a passwordless login.
    • UX improvement: mouse pointer only changes on checkmarks/hoverable/clickable elements.
    • Support for forms with multiple password placeholders; plugin adds the policy checks to both placeholders.
    • Improved support for running the plugin on PHP 8.

    Fixed:

    • Fixed: Plugin not remembering the first used password when the Disallow Passwords policy is enabled.
    • Fixed: Missing var in ppm_handle_login_based_reset.
    • Disallow the use of previous passwords was not working properly on reset password page.
    • Fixed: reducing the number of disallowed passwords was not purging the passwords that are no longer needed.
    • Fixed an issue with the HTML in the Inactive users when the interface is translated.
    • Fixed the text in the settings page: in some places HTML code was showing up.
    • Fixed: fatal error when a user tries to reset a password while already logged in to the website.
    • Fixed a PHP fatal error in the class PPM_Failed_Logins.

    2.6.1 (20220726)

    Bug fixes:

    * Fixed: Locked users always requested to reset password upon unlock (even when the setting is disabled).
    * Fixed: Password expired email sent multiple times.
    * Fixed: Inactive users still able to log in in some cases.
    * Fixed a typo in reset password email.

    2.6.0 (20220517)

    Release notes: Announcing the release of WPassword 2.6.0

    New feature:

    Improvements:

    • Made some prompts\’ text available for translation.
    • Improved the formatting of the summary email.
    • Added the new plugin logo in the plugin’s UI.
    • Improved parsing of list of IDs and classes in the custom forms support script.
    • Updated the text of the Help & About us page.
    • Added the GNU license / updated the licensing details.

    Bug fixes:

    • Fixed: Plugin sending multiple “password expired” emails to users.
    • Fixed: The password expired check was running even on exempted users.
    • Fixed: Automatically unlocked users not removed from list of locked users.
    • Fixed: Unable to use the ‘ and ” characters in the special characters field.

    2.5.1 (20220225)

    Security Fix

    • Updated the Freemius SDK to 2.4.3 to address a security issue.

    Improvement

    • Updated variable order for PHP8 support.

    2.5.0 (20211103)

    Release notes: Password Policy Manager renamed to WPassword

    Update Highlight

    • Password Policy Manager has been renamed to WPassword.

    Improvements

    • Settings and Locked Users moved to their own pages.
    • Better support for WooCommerce – plugin\’s login error notices can now be displayed in WooCommerce custom login pages.
    • Locked Users area now correctly uses the “lockout time” rather than the last activity time which could lead to inaccurate results.
    • Ensured all strings can be translated

    Bug fixes

    • Fixed issue which was causing certain characters to not display in the password hints.
    • Fixed regex issue which was causing JS errors if certain characters are elected to the “must not contain” setting.
    • Fixed logic which caused “must contains special chars” to display an empty string.
    • Fixed bug with custom user roles priority setting which was causing some of the policies to be ignored for custom user roles.
    • Users who have been locked out due to failed login attempts are now self-removing from the Locked Users list upon successful login.
    • Exclude characters setting will now alert correctly if an invalid setting is provided.

    2.4.1 (20210906)

    Release notes: PPMWP 2.4.1: Weekly email summary and other UI/UX improvements

    New Features

    • New shortcode to add password policy checks to custom login pages (more efficient way of adding the policies check to a page).
    • Custom form filter/shortcode no longer require all 3 arguments to work.
    • Weekly summary email highlighting a list of users which have been made dormant, locked due to failed logins or have reset their password during the last week.
    • New option to prioritise roles in cases where users can have multiple roles.
    • New policy to disable users from requesting a new password (meaning admins must send reset).
    • New hook “ppmwp_apply_forced_reset_usermeta” that can be used to “force password reset on login” when creating WordPress users via a custom workflow.

    Improvements

    • The plugin settings, list of locked users, and help & contact pages are now available in their own admin pages.
    • Policies UI is now hidden unless policies are enabled.
    • The role tabs are now available via a dropdown rather than individual tabs (better UX & UI).
    • Failed login policy now detects failed email-based logins.
    • Standardized and improved the password reset form hints styling.
    • Improved the plugin\’s help-text and setting names.
    • Users last activity is now updated on login or logout, to improve performance.

    Bug fixes

    • Double quotes were escaped when added as non-allowed special characters in plugin settings.
    • \”Update user\” button in user profile was not reset when the reset password dialogue is closed.
    • Custom password hints not reflected in non-admin facing forms.
    • Dormant user now uses correct value even if translated.
    • Failed login policies required error argument to always be provided.
    • The notice “A user must be excluded” no longer appears when the inactive users policy is disabled.
    • Network users now recieve relevant email when “Reset all passwords” is used.
    • Cancelling the “set new password” box within a user’s profile page no longer leaves the “Save profile settings” button disabled.
    • Password reset’s via a user’s profile page can no longer POST an empty password.

    2.4.0 (20210331)

    Release notes: PPMWP 2.4.0: New feature to block users with failed login attempts & other updates

    New Features

    • Failed logins policy – block user log in attempts after a number of failed logins.
    • New filter hook to hide password strength suggestions on custom forms.

    Improvements

    • Automatically generated passwords now match the configured policies.
    • Added more input validation in backend fields.
    • Plugin now uses timestamp() instead of time() so it is aware of the time zone configured in WordPress.
    • All plugin settings now use YES/NO instead of boolean values in the database (improving dev standards).
    • Refactored script data and styles that were printed manually (now using the function wp_localize_script).
    • Reduced code by deleting duplicate code and using central functions instead.
    • Improved the “User last active” check – plugin updates this more often for more accurate functionality.
    • More plugin text, especially text with links is now translatable.
    • Email with password reset notification is no longer sent when user has to reset password on next login.

    Bug fixes

    • PHP fatal during plugin uninstall and data clean-up.
    • Excluded characters were not shown in the policies in user view
    • In some cases users were marked as inactive even though the inactive users check was not enabled.
    • Policies for logged-in user\’s role were applied when resetting the password of another user with a different role.
    • WordPress “Send password reset link” button was not working when the plugin was installed.
    • “Generate password” button in the password reset page was not working for users who had to change the password during login.
    • Password hints in password reset page were not being updated when changing password.
    • Users can bypass some policies and use easy passwords when manipulating the DOM in the user profile page.
    • Number of warnings were being generated when generating the POT file.
    • In some cases, unlocked inactive users were still marked as inactive users.

    2.3.4 (2021-01-21)

    Release notes: PPMWP 2.3.4: improved plugin interoperability & maintenance updates

    Improvements

    • Improved the support for post-login redirect plugins (in some setups the \”reset password on first login\”was not working when a post-login redirect plugin was installed).
    • Moved a number of queries as background process, so users can navigate away from the plugin\’s settings page while the task is still running.
    • Improved a number of database queries for better performance.

    Bug fixes

    • In some cases users with expired password could still access the dashboard.
    • The function “reset password on first login” was not working well with some redirect plugins.
    • The password reset link sent to unlock users was invalid in some cases.
    • Password policies were not being shown when a password reset page was refreshed.

    2.3.3 (2020-12-04)

    Improvement

    Bug fix

    • Headers not sent errors were being reported when resetting passwords using the WooCommerce account form.

    2.3.2 (2020-11-23)

    Improvement

    • Updated the Freemius SDK to 2.4.1.

    2.3.1 (2020-09-09)

    Release notes: PPMWP 2.3.1: improved support for third party plugins

    Breaking change

    • Removed option to disable WordPress’ automatic password generation.

    Improvements

    • Better support for third party plugins – plugin works much better now with eCommerce, membership & subscription plugins.
    • The password reset module will require users to change the password even if they have not reset it within 24 hours.

    Bug fixes

    • Password was not always automatically generated.
    • Generated password did not always meet the configured password policies.
    • UI was not showing the correct configured user role specific policies.
    • Password was not being generated automatically when user had to reset the password on next login.
    • Password policies not inherited properly when using custom roles in certain edge cases.
    • Password policies not displayed properly on custom pages with WooCommerce.

    2.3.0 (2020-07-15)

    Release notes: PPMWP 2.3.0: inactive users & other policies and performance updates

    New features

    • User profile setting to require user to change the password during next login.
    • The password policies shown when creating a new user are are the policies that apply for the new user\’s role.
    • Setting to stop WordPress from automatically generating passwords.
    • Policy to require inactive users in WordPress to reset password once unlocked.

    Improvements

    • Applied several core and performance updates. Plugin can now be used to enforce policies on sites with more than 100,000 users  without any performance drops.
    • The inactive WordPress users policy now works as a standalone policy. It is no longer dependent on the expiration policy.
    • When users are marked as inactive, their existing sessions are instantly terminated.
    • Standardized the plugin\’s settings prefix (code improvement).

    Bug fixes

    • Plugin hangs when a user is automatically created by WooCommerce during checkout.
    • Users are not asked to reset their password during first login when using a specific custom login form.
    • Minor UI / placeholders alignment issues.
    • Password not reset properly when reset via Custom password reset form in Storefront.

    2.2.0 (2020-04-22)

    Release notes: WPassword 2.2.0: out of the box support for custom login pages & other updates.

    New features

    Improvements

    • Updated About us page – added reference to our new two-factor authentication plugin.
    • Standardized the UI and UX of the user exemption settings.
    • Improved validation / checking of all policy settings.

    Bug fixes

    • Password policies inheritance not working properly in some edge cases.
    • Plugin loading translation files correctly.
    • Plugin settings & data deleted from database when relevant setting is enabled and plugin is uninstalled.
    • Plugin shows incorrect message to user when their account is locked (WordPress dormant users check).

    2.1.0 (2020-03-05)

    Release notes: WPassword 2.1.0: dormant users policy and support for post login redirect plugins.

    New features

    • Dormant users policy.
    • Setting to specify special characters that cannot be used in passwords.
    • Support for post login redirect plugins.

    Improvements

    • Reset all passwords functionality now resets all passwords and terminates sessions instantly.
    • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.3.2.
    • Removed old / obsolete code from the plugin.
    • Localized some strings that were hardcoded in js files.
    • Setting to exempt users from dormant users checks.

    Bug fixes

    • Fixed some issues with localization and generated new POT file.

    2.0.1 (2019-12-04)

    Bug fix

    • Fixed an edge case issue in which the reset all function was not terminating the users\’ sessions.

    2.0 (2019-11-06)

    Release notes: WPassword 2.0: multisite networks support and first time login policy.

    New Features

    Improvements

    • Increased password history policy: plugin can now remember up to 100 passwords per user.
    • Improved the text of the email templates used in the plugin.
    • Improved the help and about pages (more links, help etc).
    • Improved plugin’s error messages.

    Bug Fixes

    • Expired passwords can be reset with a wrong password.
    • Expired passwords cannot be reset by administrator.

    1.4 (2019-08-13)

    Release notes: WPassword 1.4: premium trials, advantageous pricing & plugin improvements.

    New Feature

    Improvements

    • Reset all passwords functionality works also when policies are disabled.
      Improved the plugin’s text and messages (better UX).

    Bug Fix

    • Fixed an issue in which plugin prompts on login pages where incorrect.

    1.2 (2019-06-05)

    New Feature

    1.1 (2019-01-10)

    New Feature

    • Ability to configure different password policies for different user roles.

    Improvements

    • Users can now configure the maximum password length to less than 6 characters (not recommended).
    • Generic plugin improvements

    1.0.1 (2018-09-10)

    • Added Spanish language files.

    1.0.0 (2018-08-17)

    • Initial Release.