Failed to login with username "admin" because no user with that username exists

  • Resolved Dolomats0

    (@dolomats0)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hello

    I m getting this Message :

    Anonymous user from XX.XX.XX.XX 13 heures ago
    Failed to login with username “admin” because no user with that username exists warning

    And that’s my server ip ! so I wanna know if I should worry or no ?
    And how can get more information about this login attempt.

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author eskapism

    (@eskapism)

    Try to click on the time (“13 heures ago”) and see if that popup window gives you any more info.

    Thread Starter Dolomats0

    (@dolomats0)

    here is the result when i click on the time :

    Context data
    This is potentially useful meta data that a logger has saved.

    Key Value
    id 341
    logger SimpleUserLogger
    level warning
    date 2015-01-26 08:56:55
    message Failed to login with username “{failed_login_username}” because no user with that username exists
    type
    initiator web_user
    occasionsID fc19fe068b4a1e111ed26b846cc30560
    subsequentOccasions 1
    rep 1
    repeated 10
    occasionsIDType fc19fe068b4a1e111ed26b846cc30560
    context_message_key user_unknown_login_failed
    failed_login_username admin
    server_http_user_agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
    _message_key user_unknown_login_failed
    _server_remote_addr XX.XX.XX.XX (My server IP)
    _server_http_x_forwarded_for_0 213.231.30.36
    _server_http_referer domaine.com/wp-login.php

    Plugin Author eskapism

    (@eskapism)

    Your server is probably behind a proxy or something similar, and thats why you see you server IP as the remote address. If you instead check the “_server_http_x_forwarded_for” value that is 213.231.30.36 and that goes to an IP somewhere in Ukraine:
    https://ipinfo.io/213.231.30.36

    My guess is that someone there simply is trying to login to your WordPress admin. Either a person or a computer part of a bot network or similar.

    Thread Starter Dolomats0

    (@dolomats0)

    Hmm ok fortunately I changed administration login but it s weird that he can achieve some attempt even if I m using a ReCaptcha and login URL is changed from default wp-admin

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