bot detected, blocked or not blocked?

  • Resolved nimrod54

    (@nimrod54)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there,
    thanks for the nice plugin.
    I’m using WP Cerber since a long time without any issue

    a couple of days ago I saw an event in the activity listing:
    Spam form submission denied Bot detected
    URL: <my-domain>.de/wp-admin/upgrade.php
    I blacklisted the IP address used

    I’m using the plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/
    using this plugin now shows two errors:

    – wp_version_check() has been deactivated by a plugin
    – Rest APi = 403

    After running Health Check WP Cerber Security shows the following in the activity listing:

    Malicious request denied IP blacklisted
    URL: <my-domain>.de /wp-json/wp/v2/types/post
    and
    Logged out Site policy enforcement
    URL: <my-domain>.de/wp-admin/
    and it shows my local name but not username used

    WP Cerber is ver 8.3, WordPress is ver 5.2
    Cerber main Settings – proactice security rules – all switches = on
    Hardening WordPress – all nine switches = on

    do you have any suggestion what to do?

    thanks and kind regards

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  • Thread Starter nimrod54

    (@nimrod54)

    Hi there,
    I believe I made a mistake by moving the IP adress on the black list. Checking the traffic inspector listing I found out that the event
    “Spam form submission denied Bot detected
    URL: <my-domain>.de/wp-admin/upgrade.php”
    happend, when I did run the update to WP 5.2. I removed the IP adress listed from the blacklist and now Health Check is reporting no issue.
    I have 4 websites up and running and I found the same IP adress with the same event in the activity listings at the time when I manually started the update to WP 5.2

    thanks and best regards

    Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    Hi! You need to add the Administrator role to this list: “Allow REST API for these roles”. It’s on the Hardening tab.

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