Description
HTTP Headers gives your control over the http headers returned by your blog or website.
Headers supported by HTTP Headers includes:
- Access-Control-Allow-Origin
- Access-Control-Allow-Credentials
- Access-Control-Max-Age
- Access-Control-Allow-Methods
- Access-Control-Allow-Headers
- Access-Control-Expose-Headers
- Age
- Content-Security-Policy
- Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only
- Cache-Control
- Clear-Site-Data
- Connection
- Content-Encoding
- Content-Type
- Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy
- Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy
- Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy
- Expect-CT
- Expires
- Feature-Policy
- NEL
- Permissions-Policy
- Pragma
- P3P
- Referrer-Policy
- Report-To
- Strict-Transport-Security
- Timing-Allow-Origin
- Vary
- WWW-Authenticate
- X-Content-Type-Options
- X-DNS-Prefetch-Control
- X-Download-Options
- X-Frame-Options
- X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies
- X-Powered-By
- X-Robots-Tag
- X-UA-Compatible
- X-XSS-Protection
Screenshots
This screenshot shows up the dashboard with categories of the supported headers. 
This screenshot shows up the headers of a chosen category and their current values. 
This screenshot shows up the settings page where you can adjust the security headers. 
This screenshot shows up the response headers returned by the web server.
Installation
Upload the HTTP Headers plugin to your blog. Then activate it.
That’s all.
FAQ
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Why to use this plugin?
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Nowadays security of your social data at the web is essential. This plugin helps you to improve your website overall security.
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Who use these headers?
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These HTTP headers are being used in production services by popular websites as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Instagram, Pinterest.
Reviews
Август 30, 2025
2 replies
Never use this plugin as the security settings make my main site and all sub-domain sites down and even after uninstallation / removal of everything and start to install a new WP, it doesn’t work anymore
Апрель 29, 2025
worked exactly as promised except 2
Мартъи 30, 2025
Went through a bunch of options of adding security headers to my sites and settled on this plugin.
Would be 5 stars if two things get fixed/added. 1st is that it would be great to have a save button at the top also so you don’t have to scroll so much to the bottom to save options (especially on CSP screen). And the 2nd would be that the boxes where we are able to input sites etc, sometimes you have to paste numerous websites in that field and it is ridiculously annoying to try to scroll through, see whats already there or copy and paste outside in notepad for example and then paste it back in. Would be great if that field could be expanded or just bigger.
Сентябрь 23, 2024
When used with Elementor, you can’t edit the pages. Had to uninstall, since I don’t know what else it will break.
Май 11, 2024
2 replies
I am finding this a very effective tool to help clients reach security compliance. There is one glitch I believe, however, is with the x-content-type-options. Once you enable this the only option is nosniff”. And once enabled, there is no way to reset it. And unfortunately i believe this setting is creating errors on my site. I can’t even seem to find the line for it in my .htaccess file. Any recommendations?
Апрель 30, 2024
I have felt this has been excellent since the first time I used it, and absolutely no issues with it for what it is, except that there are a couple of headers that either need to be ‘marked deprecated’ or just removed. My immediate spot of these are the, Features header, P3P header and the Expect-CT (which is still around, but Mozilla recommend not using). There may be others.
There are a bunch of things that I might suggest as improvements, but this is to move the tool forward a bit. For instance:
It would be great if it could display the highlighted state of the current Apache/Nginx code and the status of the security (as per securityheaders.com form) alongside/under it, so you could see the evolution of the security header set up arrangements as you add/remove them.
Could be useful to have some in-built documentation on these things (particularly with the P3P header, those little summary items were impossible to figure out without going back and forth, but for other things like cache-control, or accept-expose-headers, some labelling could help). That said, for advanced users anyway, so perhaps less important.
Further to that, it might be useful to have an indication of what OWASP, Scott Helme, and Mozilla recommend and/or warnings for ones that are problematic for security or high risk with labels on them.
There are a few things that have odd formatting, so it is not obvious how to transpose the information for the reporting one over from how the header is laid out, since there are different ones for this. In this you have the report header that is normally used (as per report-uri site from Scott Helme) but it does not fit there. However, it has a group called ‘csp-element’ or something similar that might be clearer as to its use elsewhere). There is also the display of custom headers that are all grouped into one thing, and not spread out in a useful way if you want to review them.
Odd grouping in a couple of places, so custom headers I might have given its own block for instance, and to have two items in one and even one in one grouping is a bit pointless.
On another note, it is a shame that there is not a tool that is so effective that does this kind of thing for Wordpress and just outputs the BIND9 detail for DNS resource records. A combination of this and that, with the ability to adjust PHP and Apache settings would be the most amazing tool ever. For what this does, however, is sets the foundations for a great security setup.
Contributors & Developers
“HTTP Headers” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“HTTP Headers” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.19.2
Release Date – 22nd December, 2024
- Added script-src-elem” directive to Content-Security-Policy” header
- Added script-src-attr” directive to Content-Security-Policy” header
- Added style-src-elem” directive to Content-Security-Policy” header
- Added style-src-attr” directive to Content-Security-Policy” header
1.19.1
Release Date – 2nd September, 2023
- Added clientHints” directive to Clear-Site-Data” header
- Added credentialless” directive to Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy” header
1.19.0
Release Date – 7th July, 2023
- Fixed: SSRF vulnerability by an Admin user
- Fixed: XSS vulnerability by an Admin user
1.18.11
Release Date – 11th June, 2023
- Fixed: Remote Code Execution by an Admin user
1.18.10
Release Date – 28th May, 2023
- Fixed: Remote Code Execution by an Admin user
- Removed: Import/Export functions
1.18.9
Release Date – 23rd April, 2023
- Fixed: Remote Code Execution by an Admin user
1.18.8
Release Date – 17th April, 2023
- Fixed: SQL Injection by an Admin user
- Fixed: Remote Code Execution by an Admin user
- Few PHP 8.x compatible fixes
1.18.7
Release Date – 24th January, 2023
- Fix CSP default value
1.18.6
Release Date – 22nd January, 2023
- PHP 8 compatibility changes
1.18.5
Release Date – 30th April, 2021
- Configurable paths to files who store passwords for basic/digest auth
- Fixed issue with plugin activation, due missing file
1.18.4
Release Date – 30th April, 2021
- Initial value of X-Robots-Tag fixed
1.18.3
Release Date – 30th April, 2021
- Added X-Robots-Tag” header
- Added interest-cohort”, layout-animations”, legacy-image-formats”, oversized-images”, and wake-lock” directive to Permissions-Policy” header
- Added cross-origin” value to Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy” header
- Added navigate-to” and prefetch-src” directives to Content-Security-Policy” header
1.18.2
Release Date – 24th April, 2021
- Configurable paths to .htaccess and .user.ini files
1.18.1
Release Date – 29th October, 2020
- Added allow-downloads” and allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation” to sandbox” directive, part of CSP
1.18.0
Release Date – 20th September, 2020
- Added Permissions-Policy” header
- Fixed Cookie Security”
1.17.0
Release Date – 26th July, 2020
- Added Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy” header
- Added Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy” header
1.16.1
Release Date – 23rd July, 2020
- Fixed JS/CSS versioning
1.16.0
Release Date – 23rd July, 2020
- Added the NEL” header
- Fixed the Report-To” header
1.15.2
Release Date – 18th June, 2020
- Fixed a PHP Notice at Expires” page
- Fixed comments in .user.ini file
1.15.1
Release Date – 9th May, 2020
- Fixed the Access-Control-Allow-Origin” header
1.15.0
Release Date – 26th January, 2020
- Added the Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy” header
- Removed the Public-Key-Pins” header
1.14.2
Release Date – 25th November, 2019
- CORS headers updated (added Vary: Origin”)
1.14.1
Release Date – 15th September, 2019
- Simple filtering was replaced with Dynamic filtering
1.14.0
Release Date – 1st September, 2019
- Added the Content-Type” header
- Fixed the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials” header
- Improvement to Access-Control-Allow-Headers” header
- Improvement to Access-Control-Allow-Methods” header
- Improvement to Access-Control-Expose-Headers” header
- Improvement to Cache-Control” header
- Improvement to Vary” header
1.13.4
Release Date – 14th July, 2019
- Added the always” condition to Header (unset) directive
- Fixed the import” function
- Fixed the Access-Control-Allow-Origin” header
1.13.3
Release Date – 16th June, 2019
- Bugfix in WWW-Authenticate” header
- Added support of Apache 2.4
1.13.2
Release Date – 13th June, 2019
- Bugfix in Content-Encoding” header
- Bugfix in Vary” header
1.13.1
Release Date – 8th June, 2019
- Added Brotli compression
1.13.0
Release Date – 7th June, 2019
- Added SameSite” to Cookie Security
- Fixed import/export function
- Code refactoring
1.12.2
Release Date – 5th April, 2019
- UI improvement for Content-Security-Policy
- Fix for Access-Control-Allow-Headers
- Fix for Access-Control-Allow-Origin
- Fix for Feature-Policy
1.12.1
Release Date – 9th January, 2019
- Remove direct calls to cURL
1.12.0
Release Date – 5th January, 2019
- Better handling of activate/deactivate functions
1.11.0
Release Date – 9th December, 2018
- Added support of Clear-Site-Data” header
1.10.5
Release Date – 6th November, 2018
- Hotfix: parallel work with third-party plugins
1.10.4
Release Date – 30th September, 2018
- Support of following Server APIs: CGI, FastCGI, PHP-FPM
- Error handling improvement
1.10.3
Release Date – 8th August, 2018
- HSTS improvement
- CORS improvement
1.10.2
Release Date – 31st July, 2018
- Export feature bug-fixed
1.10.1
Release Date – 18th July, 2018
- Feature-Policy header update: new features added
1.10.0
Release Date – 17th July, 2018
- Added support of Feature-Policy” header
1.9.5
Release Date – 12th July, 2018
- CORS bugfix
1.9.4
Release Date – 13th January, 2018
- In-plugin security improvement
1.9.3
Release Date – 10th January, 2018
- Bug fix
1.9.2
Release Date – 4th January, 2018
- Security improvements
1.9.1
Release Date – 27th December, 2017
- Updated translations
1.9.0
Release Date – 23th December, 2017
- Added support of Report-To” header
- Added support of translations
- Added support of Import/Export
- Updated Content-Security-Policy” header (added directives: object-src, frame-src, worker-src, manifest-src, base-uri, report-to)
- Updated WWW-Authenticate” header (support multiple users)
- Updated Access-Control” headers (added list of origins)
1.8.0
Release Date – 31st August, 2017
- Added support of Timing-Allow-Origin” header
- Added support of X-Download-Options” header
- Added support of X-DNS-Prefetch-Control” header
- Added support of X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies” header
- Added support of Custom headers
1.7.1
Release Date – 18th August, 2017
- PHP notice bugfixed
1.7.0
Release Date – 15th August, 2017
- Added support of Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only” header
- Added support of Public-Key-Pins-Report-Only” header
- Added 1; report=” directive to the X-XSS-Protection” header
- Added Inspect headers” tool
- UI bugfixes
1.6.0
Release Date – 5th August, 2017
- Added support of Expect-CT” header
1.5.0
Release Date – 30th July, 2017
- Added support of Age” header
- Added support of Cache-Control” header
- Added support of Connection” header
- Added support of Content-Encoding” header
- Added support of Expires” header
- Added support of Pragma” header
- Added support of Vary” header
- Added support of WWW-Authenticate” header
- Added support of X-Powered-By” header
- Added support of Secure” and HttpOnly” cookies
1.4.0
Release Date – 5th July, 2017
- Added support of Apache (via htaccess) inclusion method
1.3.0
Release Date – 3rd June, 2017
- Added support of Content-Security-Policy header
- Added dashboard
1.2.0
Release Date – 28th April, 2017
- Added support of Referrer-Policy header
1.1.2
Release Date – 13th February, 2017
- Added support of ‘preload’ directive to HSTS header
1.1.1
Release Date – 8th November, 2016
- Fixed typo in the X-Frame-Options header
1.1.0
Release Date – 20th May, 2016
- Added support of P3P header
1.0.0
Release Date – 10th May, 2016
- Initial version
