Sheila on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Newbie: potential conflicts"
Mark, than you so much. I am really trying to thwart brute force attacks as I seem to attract a lot of them with 30+ WP sites that I manage. And I'd like to get them all set to something that is secure...
View Articledlachusa on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Core Files Modified - have I been...
Mark, Yes, I have more to share and need further help. After cleaning everything up per jrf's advice yesterday, I've been hacked again overnight on 3 of my sites (they're all on the same hosting...
View Articlecliffrohde on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Russia being blocked?"
Falcon enabled. The message (translated) received on the Russian end is below. From a basic google search, my sites are not the only ones impacted. Suspects may be Cloudflare or a shared IP address,...
View Articlecliffrohde on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence can't get the IP of...
Gosh, I'm not sure that's right. I think those ipv6 addresses are from my own IP address, not the site's.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] WordFence Breaking Permalinks to...
Hi, Can you confirm that you're running the newest version of Wordfence? Regards, Mark.
View ArticleJoyceD6 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] New Users Can't Login"
You didn't answer my questions about the code. Also, the memory issue was apparently an infinite loop.
View Articleruntrish on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence 5.1.1 - Blocked IP's not...
WP 3.9.1. WordFence 5.1.1. I since upgrade to latest WF, I receive email alerts about failed login attempts but the IP address is never recorded in the Login & Logout's tab. was working previously,...
View Articlejasondunn on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] WordFence Breaking Permalinks to...
I'm running 5.1.1. Seems to be the latest version. I've disabled the "Limit Login Attempts" plugin, as that seems to be the only one that could remotely be related to WordFence. I should point out that...
View ArticleBet Hannon on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Falcon Engine safe on multisite?"
Hi Mark! I've been hoping to find the time to do that testing, but things have been pretty crazy lately. Since it's been a while since Falcon Engine came out, I wondered if anyone had found the time to...
View Articlejrf on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Core Files Modified - have I been hacked?"
Hiya, The third site is very likely hacked (the file list consists of files which are quite typical for these types of hacks), the others may not be. Make sure you check the files with Wordfence's...
View ArticleKimber254 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Are zip file scanned?"
Hi. I have a woocommerce store where vendors add zip file products. Are those zip files scanned? Thanks Kimberly https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
View Articledlachusa on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Core Files Modified - have I been...
Thanks Juliette. Yes, it helps. I will check out Better WP Security and look at adding it since I'm having all these issues. FYI, I just got this response from Hostgator Security: "Unfortunately it...
View Articlegreiso on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 500 Error Page after successful login"
Hi, I am running WP v3.9.1 with a custom theme on IIS7. The PHP version is 5.2.8. Wordfence is the latest version. I receive an IIS 500 error page with error FastCGIModule error code 0x00000000. The...
View Articletorsteino on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] falcon engine - regenerate cache...
Sorry, poor choice of words, you misunderstood me. What I meant is - whenever a post or page is changed/published, and some other events, the cache is emptied (for all pages/posts), correct? And then -...
View Articlejasondunn on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] WordFence Breaking Permalinks to...
Today I checked my site again and the permalinks were broken again. This is after disabling the "Limit Login Attempts" plugin. I've changed the permalinks option from POST NAME to CUSTOM and set it to...
View Articleacekin on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Auto block by URL"
I wonder if it would be possible, and of course beneficial, to add an option to automatically block IP numbers based on the URL they try to access. I get a lot of hits to get to:...
View Articlealistairgd on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] every PHP page hacked - but scan...
Ahhhh yes that scan was selected, however this one was not.... Scan theme files against repository versions for changes I think that was my problem. I will have to go through all my sites and make sure...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Newbie: potential conflicts"
Yes that would help. Let me know if we can be of further assistance. Regards, Mark.
View Articlecliffrohde on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Russia being blocked?"
Thank you, yes. Limited google searching suggests the Cloudflare CDN or, I suppose, a shared IP as potential culprits. Kind of weird. Nothing controversial or conceivably anti-Russian on any of my sites.
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