403 forbidden problems after anouncement Wordfence

  • Hi there,

    after wordfence announced that falcon engine will be disabled in the next version, i got ”403 forbidden” messages on one of my pages on my site https://www.scriptium.nl

    this happened wednesday. than the thing got worse and after a while i got some download attachement instead of the homepage of my site, like ”download.gz”

    Alot of clients called me saying my site is inaccessible or they only see symbols. I have the same problem on my other site https://www.scriptiespot.nl, after the announcement of Wordfence. Both sites seem to work on Internet Explorer (although not for everyone) but not on chrome. Other people saying to me that the sites work on chrome. So it’s very confusing.

    I see that another person on this forum has got the same problem.

    i have the latest version of wordpress.

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  • Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    even when deactivating wordfence the problems still occure.

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    i deleted wordfence and uploaded it again, same problem on both of my sites.

    I’m going to hazard a guess and ask… Are you using WP Super Cache? Try removing that and see if same occurs. probably not helpful but might as well try it while waiting for some help ??

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    no i was using w3 total cache after wordfence announced to disable falco engine but deleted it from both sites. the problem still occurs. also, the problem seemed to be there before installing total cache.

    I was thinking that .gz files generally represent cache files. I may be wrong as I am definately no expert. Are you running Autoptimize? This may produce the same type of file. I wouldnt know.

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    yeah that’s what my sitebuilder said as well.

    i use wp-optimize for https://www.scriptium.nl and ”Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions” for https://www.scriptiespot.nl

    i have deactivated them but the problens are still there.

    like i said, i think, from what i can remember, after Wordfence announced the falcon engine cache would be removed, the problems started. I don’t know if there is any correlation and i don’t know why as nothing was updated from what i can remember.

    I dont know that if you only deactivate something it may not remove these particular files. Try removing all caching, see what happens. I dont think an announcement would cause a problem where an update would. What version wp you running?

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    yeah, it’s 4.6.1.

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    What do you mean with ”Try removing all caching”? i have removed 3w total cache. is wp-optimize also a cache program?

    Try Plugin Inspector. It might give you a better picture:

    Checks plugins for deprecated WordPress functions, known security vulnerabilities and some unsafe PHP functions

    I have come across other plugins that checks everything for you but cannot remember there names.

    Autoptimize seems to create small cache files so I am guessing that wp optimize does the same.

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    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    thanks both for the help, really appriciate that.

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    Installed plugin inspector, scanned the plugin. Is it related to Bulletproof?

    /bulletproof-security/400.php
    Unsafe/bulletproof-security/403.php

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    No problems with wp optimize according to plugin inspector

    Thread Starter Bavarois

    (@bavarois)

    i see that i don’t have bulletproof on my other site, which has also the same problem.

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