Wordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Change database prefix table"
Again, I really don't recommend changing your DB prefix because it's a risky endeavor and doesn't improve security. It's like removing the www prefix from your website and changing it to 'hidden' in...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Affiliate Royale login error with...
Hi, Unless I'm missing something, I think your PHP version being reported on your system is inconsistent. Take a look at the code. We say "If the PHP version is greater than or equal to 5.4.0 then run...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Call to Wordfence API to resolve...
@snikolaidis are you getting the error still? This error probably occurs when you're viewing live traffic, because that's when we make the call to resolve IP's. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Whois and GEO location don't match...
Hi, The WHOIS is showing who owns the netblock and the owner's company's address. Not the location of the IP which is what you see in our geo data. Regarding the 0.0 version, let me know if you see...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] IPs are Locked Out From Login //...
Thanks, glad to hear you fixed it. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Renders my site unavailable for...
Great, glad to hear it's resolved. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] every PHP page hacked - but scan...
Wordfence should report a huge number of errors when this happens. Are you sure you're scanning the correct site? Are you seeing the green message below the scan box saying you have no issues, or is...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Free API key fetch failing"
Hi, Try to do an uninstall with the option at the bottom of the WF options page to remove all our data checked. Then reinstall and it may work. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] falcon engine - regenerate cache...
"and the cache is regenerated for each page/post whenever a visitor visits that page/post" That's incorrect. That would kill performance. What makes you think we're doing that? Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Cellphone signin batch setup"
OK, you need to log a support ticket with us so that we can track this and get it resolved. Tracking the issue in the forums is difficult because we give these posts much lower priority than our paid...
View ArticleShen8889 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence did stop working"
Hi Mark, I am getting the same error as Thomas and yes I did install the Under Construction plugin. What would I need to do to rectify this issue? It was fine before I installed the UC plugin. Kind...
View Articlewebby1973 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] blocking IP asking for any URL...
Hello, I'm getting dozens of 404 errors because people from various IPs are trying to check if I have "fckeditor" installed somewhere, such as:...
View Articletimbearcub on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Request - Top blocked IPs?"
Firstly I LOVE Wordfence, it's kept my sites safe for a long time, and really helpful to weed out those trying to bot login (in fact someone actually got in via one of the Editor users, and WF letting...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] blocking IP asking for any URL...
That's an interesting feature request. I'll add it to the list - the ability to auto-block an IP when they access a certain URL. We don't currently offer this. These are probably probes to see if you...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence did stop working"
Shenyan, the under construction plugin will break scanning until you disable it. There's no workaround unless you can tell your UC plugin to ignore the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URL. Regards, Mark.
View Articlewnthne on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Whois and GEO location don't match...
It gets worse. It seems I have been hacked due to a known WordFence vulnerability. :( http://www.websecuritywatch.com/wordpress-wordfence-security-xss-and-iaa-vulnerabilities/...
View Articlewnthne on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Whois and GEO location don't match...
I forgot to mention, there have been several "version 0.0" hits before the site went down. I put the following code in .htaccess and I hope that will prevent any more of the CSS attacks described above...
View Articlewebby1973 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] browser version 0.0 error in...
Hello, I saw this odd string: Browser: Chrome version 0.0 running on Win8.1 It's for: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36 The...
View Articlebill_h on "stop wordfence reporting my own logins"
Hi. I wondered if there was a way to stop Wordfence reporting every time I log in myself to my site as admin? https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
View ArticleBarnez on "stop wordfence reporting my own logins"
In the Wordpress dashboard go to Wordfence - Option - Advanced Options - Alerts. Then uncheck any alerts you don't want to receive before saving your changes.
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