Memory issues, deactivated & deleted – still seeing wsal-auditlog in logs

  • Resolved ninanmnm

    (@ninanmnm)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi! I installed your plugin on our staging / test site today, and it worked fine at first. As the day progressed, response got slower. CPU usage is at 100% when IIS is running. I deactivated and deleted the plugin (made sure “delete files” was selected in settings first). I’m still seeing really slow response times. In the IIS logs, I see lots of these calls:

    GET /wp-admin/admin.php page=wsal-auditlog 443 – 173.12.28.238 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/47.0.2526.106+Safari/537.36 https://test.privakeyapp.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wsal-auditlog 403 0 0 187

    Even though the plugin is gone.

    Any ideas? You will probably need more information – but I’m not sure what to provide. I’d really like to use your plugin!

    Thanks!

    Nina

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

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  • Thread Starter ninanmnm

    (@ninanmnm)

    For the record, here is what was blowing up my IIS logs, lots of GETs and POSTs referencing wsal-auditlog:

    2016-01-15 14:05:26 172.31.23.32 POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php – 443 – 173.12.28.238 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/47.0.2526.106+Safari/537.36 https://test.privakeyapp.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wsal-auditlog 200 0 0 2937
    2016-01-15 14:05:26 172.31.23.32 GET /wp-admin/admin.php page=wsal-auditlog 443 – 173.12.28.238 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/47.0.2526.106+Safari/537.36 https://test.privakeyapp.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wsal-auditlog 403 0 0 265

    I used the WP-Optimize plugin to clean up the database, and the problem stopped.

    Unfortunately, we were seeing memory usage issues before ever uninstalling the plugin (that’s what prompted the uninstall). Might have been related to the plugin, or something else stale in the database. I will re-install the plugin and open another ticket if I see any issues.

    Plugin Author WPWhiteSecurity

    (@wpwhitesecurity)

    Hello,

    Thank you for updating the ticket.

    We never tested and supported IIS, though it is good to know it works. Just for reference, the queries you were seeing were AJAX requests to update the audit log, so someone must have been viewing the audit log. Having said that it should not hammer the memory usage of a web server.

    I am glad it all worked out for you. And please do let us know how it goes with the re-install.

    Cleanforest.co

    (@noamcleanforestsolutionscom)

    Hello,

    I am seeing the same issue as ninanmnm with multiple requests to wp-admin/admin.php?page=wsal-auditlog&reauth=1 causing a spike in memory usage.

    Note: I am running apache.

    Example:

    108.xxx.xx.xxx – – [14/Feb/2016:21:15:08 +0000] “GET /wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dwsal-auditlog&reauth=1 HTTP/1.1” 200 4520 “https://www.domain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wsal-auditlog” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.109 Safari/537.36”

    Plugin Author WPWhiteSecurity

    (@wpwhitesecurity)

    Hello CFC,

    Your issue is totally different from what the first user is reporting, even by simply looking at the fact that you are running Apache and the previous user is running IIS. Therefore please open a new ticket / thread for this issue.

    Thank you for your understanding.

    Cleanforest.co

    (@noamcleanforestsolutionscom)

    @wpwhitesecurity Sure.

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