Do I need root access?

No. Whitelist-Warden runs in your own cPanel/shell account. The shell toolkit needs SSH or cron access to a host you control; the companion WordPress plugin runs inside WordPress.

Does it replace Cloudflare or Wordfence?

No — it works with them. Whitelist-Warden feeds your Cloudflare WAF and Wordfence allowlists, and can pull Wordfence blocks back into its own banlist. Think of it as the bouncer, not the whole wall.

Will it block my real visitors or Google?

It is built to minimise false positives: trusted IPs, DDNS hostnames, and your CDN's published edge ranges are kept on a dynamic whitelist so they are never banned. During beta we tune the threat thresholds to keep legitimate crawlers out of the net.

Is there a free version?

Yes. The Core (WordPress plugin + server toolkit) is free forever. Pro adds Cloudflare edge sync, notifications, a dashboard and auto-updates for \$10/mo or \$99/yr with a 7-day free trial.

Whitelist-Warden

End-User License Agreement

Effective Date: August 28, 2026

Product: Whitelist-Warden ("WLW," "the Software") — a WordPress firewall/security toolkit comprising a bash-based toolkit and a WordPress plugin.

Licensor: BOT-HOLDINGS, LLC, doing business as "codedatda.casa" ("Vendor," "we," "us," "our")

Contact: [email protected]

Website: https://whitelistwarden.com

> Template notice: This is a template legal document prepared for business use and has not been reviewed by a licensed attorney. It is provided as a starting point only. You should have qualified legal counsel in your jurisdiction review and, where necessary, revise this document before relying on it.

1. Acceptance of This Agreement

By downloading, installing, accessing, activating, or using Whitelist-Warden in any form — including beta or pre-release versions distributed via private GitHub repository — you ("Customer," "you," "your") agree to be bound by this End-User License Agreement ("Agreement"). If you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, in which case "you" refers to that entity. If you do not agree to this Agreement, do not download, install, activate, or use the Software.

This Agreement governs your use of the Software itself. Your use of the Whitelist-Warden website and your paid subscription are additionally governed by our Terms of Service, and your data handling is governed by our Privacy Policy. In the event of a direct conflict between this Agreement and the Terms of Service specifically as to license grant, scope, and restrictions, this Agreement controls; as to billing, account, and dispute-resolution matters, the Terms of Service control.

2. Grant of License

2.1 License Grant

Subject to your continuous compliance with this Agreement and payment of all applicable fees, Vendor grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software, in object/executable/deployable form only, solely for your own internal business or personal purposes.

2.2 License Scope — Per-Site Activation Seats

The Software is licensed on a per-site activation ("seat") basis tied to your active subscription tier. Each seat entitles you to activate and run the Software on one (1) production website/domain (plus any staging or development mirror of that same site that Vendor's activation system permits, if any). You may not activate or run the Software on more websites or domains than the number of seats included in your then-current subscription plan. Vendor may enforce seat limits through license-key validation, remote activation checks, telemetry, or other technical measures, and may deny or revoke activation for use exceeding your licensed seat count.

2.3 No Ownership Transfer

This Agreement grants a license only. No title or ownership rights in the Software are transferred to you under any circumstances.

3. Restrictions

You shall not, and shall not permit or authorize any third party to:

(a) copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, or otherwise transfer or make available the Software or any portion of it to any third party, except as expressly permitted for your own licensed sites under Section 2.2;

(b) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, structure, or underlying ideas of the Software, except to the limited extent such restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation;

(c) modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based on the Software, or remove, obscure, alter, or circumvent any licensing, activation, seat-limitation, or usage-restriction mechanism embedded in the Software;

(d) remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary rights notices, labels, or markings placed on or within the Software or its documentation;

(e) use the Software to build a competing product or service, or use the Software's outputs, configurations, or code to develop a substantially similar product;

(f) use the Software in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, including export control laws described in Section 8;

(g) share, publish, or otherwise disclose your license key(s), API credentials, or private repository access credentials to any unauthorized party; or

(h) use the Software to provide hosted, managed, white-label, or "software-as-a-service" security services to third parties without a separate written agreement with Vendor authorizing such use.

Any breach of this Section 3 is a material breach entitling Vendor to immediate termination under Section 6.

4. Ownership and Intellectual Property

The Software, including all source code, object code, documentation, designs, algorithms, trademarks (including "Whitelist-Warden" and associated logos), and all related intellectual property rights, is and remains the sole and exclusive property of Vendor and its licensors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to transfer any ownership interest in the Software to you. All rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement are reserved by Vendor.

Feedback, suggestions, or ideas you voluntarily submit to Vendor regarding the Software may be used by Vendor for any purpose, including incorporation into the Software, without compensation or attribution obligation to you.

A future "Lite" edition of the Software may be released by Vendor under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or another open-source license via the official WordPress.org plugin directory. Nothing in this Agreement applies to, or restricts your rights under, that separately licensed GPL edition once and if released; this Agreement governs only the proprietary, closed-source edition of the Software.

5. Beta and Private Repository Access

If you are granted access to pre-release, beta, or evaluation versions of the Software through a private GitHub repository or other private distribution channel ("Beta Access"):

(a) Confidentiality. All non-public aspects of the Software, including source code, unreleased features, documentation, and Vendor communications made available through Beta Access, are Vendor's confidential information. You agree not to disclose, publish, screenshot, or distribute such materials to any third party without Vendor's prior written consent, and to use reasonable care (at least as much care as you use to protect your own confidential information, but no less than reasonable care) to prevent unauthorized disclosure.

(b) Revocable at Will. Beta Access is granted at Vendor's sole discretion and may be suspended, modified, or revoked by Vendor at any time, with or without notice and with or without cause, including removal of your access to the private repository.

(c) No Service Level Commitment. Beta and pre-release versions of the Software are provided with no uptime, support, response-time, or fix-time commitments of any kind. Beta software is inherently experimental, may contain bugs, security gaps, or incomplete functionality, and should not be relied upon for production use without your own independent testing and risk assessment.

(d) "AS IS." All disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification obligations, and assumption-of-risk provisions in this Agreement apply with full force to Beta Access and use of pre-release Software, without limitation.

6. Term and Termination

6.1 Term

This Agreement remains in effect for as long as you use the Software or maintain an active subscription, whichever is longer, unless earlier terminated as provided below.

6.2 Termination for Breach

Vendor may terminate this Agreement and your license immediately, without notice, if you breach any provision of this Agreement, including the restrictions in Section 3.

6.3 Termination for Non-Payment

Your license is contingent on payment of applicable subscription fees. If payment lapses, is declined, is reversed via chargeback, or your subscription is cancelled or expires, your license to use paid features terminates automatically as described in Section 7, subject to any grace period Vendor elects to provide at its discretion.

6.4 Termination by You

You may terminate this Agreement at any time by ceasing all use of the Software, uninstalling it, and cancelling your subscription in accordance with the Terms of Service.

7. Effect of Termination

Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement for any reason:

(a) all license rights granted to you under this Agreement immediately cease;

(b) you must immediately stop using the Software's paid/licensed features and, upon Vendor's request, uninstall, deactivate, or destroy all copies of the Software in your possession or control, except that any legally required or automatically-retained backups are not required to be purged solely due to termination;

(c) if a free "core" or "Lite" tier of the Software is available at the time of termination, the Software may automatically gate down to that free tier's functionality rather than ceasing to function entirely, at Vendor's discretion and depending on the version installed;

(d) any provision of this Agreement which by its nature should survive termination — including Sections 3, 4, 5(a), 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 — survives; and

(e) termination does not relieve you of any payment obligations accrued prior to termination, and no fees already paid will be refunded except as expressly provided in Vendor's Refund & Cancellation Policy.

8. Export Control and U.S. Law Compliance

The Software may be subject to United States export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations. You represent that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country or party subject to U.S. government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. government denied-party or restricted-party list. You agree to comply with all applicable export and re-export restrictions and regulations and not to transfer, or authorize the transfer of, the Software to a prohibited country or otherwise in violation of any such restrictions or regulations. This Agreement and your use of the Software are governed by, and you agree to comply with, all applicable laws of the United States.

9. NO WARRANTY — "AS IS" DISCLAIMER

THE SOFTWARE IS A SECURITY-RELATED TOOL, BUT IT IS NOT A GUARANTEE OF SECURITY. NO SOFTWARE CAN GUARANTEE PREVENTION OF EVERY BREACH, INTRUSION, ATTACK, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING ANY BETA, TRIAL, OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. VENDOR, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND ITS LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS, EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

(a) ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT;

(b) ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL PREVENT, DETECT, OR MITIGATE ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, HACK, INTRUSION, MALWARE, DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, DATA BREACH, OR OTHER SECURITY INCIDENT;

(d) ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, TIMELY, OR FREE OF DEFECTS, BUGS, OR VULNERABILITIES;

(e) ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR HOSTING ENVIRONMENT, SERVER CONFIGURATION, WORDPRESS VERSION, PLUGIN STACK, OR CLOUDFLARE ACCOUNT SETTINGS;

(f) ANY WARRANTY THAT USE OF THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT RESULT IN YOU BEING LOCKED OUT OF YOUR OWN WEBSITE, SERVER, OR ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL; AND

(g) ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SECURITY SOFTWARE OPERATES ALONGSIDE, AND DOES NOT REPLACE, YOUR OWN SECURITY PRACTICES, BACKUPS, MONITORING, AND DILIGENCE, AND THAT NO FIREWALL, WHITELIST, OR IP-BANNING TOOL CAN GUARANTEE PROTECTION AGAINST ALL THREATS. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, AND RESULTS OF THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING THE ENTIRE RISK OF ANY SECURITY INCIDENT, DATA LOSS, DOWNTIME, OR SELF-LOCKOUT.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU; IN THAT CASE, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE SHORTEST PERIOD PERMITTED BY LAW.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

10.1 Exclusion of Damages

IN NO EVENT SHALL VENDOR, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, LICENSORS, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR DATA OR SYSTEMS — ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE), AND EVEN IF VENDOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

THIS EXCLUSION EXPRESSLY INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES ARISING FROM: A SECURITY BREACH OR INTRUSION THE SOFTWARE DID NOT PREVENT OR DETECT; LOSS, THEFT, CORRUPTION, OR EXPOSURE OF DATA; WEBSITE OR SERVER DOWNTIME; AND YOUR OWN LOCKOUT FROM YOUR SITE, HOSTING ACCOUNT, OR ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL RESULTING FROM MISCONFIGURATION, IP WHITELIST/BLACKLIST ERRORS, OR FIREWALL RULE SYNCHRONIZATION (INCLUDING VIA CLOUDFLARE).

10.2 Liability Cap

TO THE EXTENT VENDOR IS FOUND LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, VENDOR'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE TOTAL FEES YOU ACTUALLY PAID TO VENDOR FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM; OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD $100).

*(Note to counsel: liability cap amount and structure set per client instruction; confirm enforceability and any statutory carve-outs under the governing-law jurisdiction ultimately selected.)*

10.3 Basis of the Bargain

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT VENDOR HAS SET ITS PRICES AND ENTERED INTO THIS AGREEMENT IN RELIANCE ON THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN, THAT THE SAME REFLECT A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN THE PARTIES, AND THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS FORM AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND VENDOR.

10.4 Jurisdictional Limits

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, VENDOR'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vendor and its officers, directors, members, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, and suppliers from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use or misuse of the Software; (b) your violation of this Agreement, including the restrictions in Section 3; (c) your violation of any applicable law or the rights of any third party; (d) any data, content, configuration, or firewall rule you input, upload, or synchronize using the Software, including via Cloudflare; (e) any security incident, breach, data loss, downtime, or lockout affecting your own systems, your customers, or third parties, except to the extent directly caused by Vendor's gross negligence or willful misconduct; and (f) any dispute between you and a third party arising from your use of the Software. Vendor reserves the right, at your expense, to assume exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with Vendor's defense of the claim.

12. Assumption of Risk — Firewall and Lockout Risk

YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND ASSUME THE FOLLOWING RISKS INHERENT TO FIREWALL AND IP-WHITELISTING SOFTWARE:

(a) The Software is designed to restrict access to your website and server based on IP whitelisting, blacklisting, and firewall rule synchronization, including rules pushed to Cloudflare. Misconfiguration, incorrect rule entry, IP address changes on your end, dynamic IP assignment by your ISP, VPN use, or errors in rule synchronization can result in you or your legitimate users — including yourself as the site administrator — being locked out of your own website, hosting control panel, or server.

(b) You are solely responsible for understanding how the Software's whitelisting, banning, and Cloudflare-sync features work before enabling them on a production site, for maintaining alternate access paths to your server (such as direct hosting-provider console access, SSH access outside the firewall path, or a documented emergency-access procedure) independent of the Software, and for testing configuration changes in a staging environment before applying them to production.

(c) Vendor is not responsible for, and shall have no liability for, any lockout, loss of access, downtime, lost revenue, or other harm resulting from your configuration, misconfiguration, or use of the Software's firewall, whitelist, ban, or Cloudflare-synchronization features, regardless of whether the configuration was performed manually or through automated or suggested settings within the Software.

(d) By enabling any whitelist, ban, or firewall-sync feature, you knowingly and voluntarily accept the risk of self-lockout and other consequences described in this Section 12, and you agree that this risk is reasonably within your control and is not the responsibility of Vendor.

13. General Provisions

Governing Law. See the governing law and dispute resolution provisions of the Whitelist-Warden Terms of Service, which are incorporated into this Agreement by reference for all matters not otherwise addressed herein.

Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Refund & Cancellation Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between you and Vendor regarding the Software and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings regarding its subject matter.

Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

No Waiver. Vendor's failure to enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement without Vendor's prior written consent. Vendor may assign this Agreement freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Amendment. Vendor may amend this Agreement from time to time by posting an updated version at https://whitelistwarden.com or through the Software's update mechanism. Continued use of the Software after an amendment takes effect constitutes acceptance of the amended Agreement.

Contact. Questions about this Agreement may be directed to [email protected].

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