Failed Login Attempts from my IP?

It shows that while I’m logged in, there is a failed attempt to login to the username “admin” every 3 minutes

Where are you getting the “failed attempt” information from? Is it one of the menu pages from this plugin or some other plugin?

Also are you sure that the failed login attempt log you are referring to specifies an exact IP address or does it show an IP range?

It’s under wp security – user login – failed login reports. The report lists my ip address, user id 0, username admin and the date when it failed. It happens about every 3 minutes. When i enabled the lockout for failed logins, i was locked out from my own ip pretty quick. Any ideas what might be causing this?

Do you have a plugin which uses XML-RPC to allow external entities to login to your site?

I figured out my problem. It wasn’t displaying MY ip, but rather my server’s IP for ALL activity.

That’s why I was a little confused. The plugin was detecting my server’s IP address, and locking out the server’s ip. Quite a little issue.

This was due to the server being setup to some sort of reverse-proxy. The same thing can happen to some people when they use cloudflare with their site.

I was able to correct it by adding the following code to my wp-config file:

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"] ? $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"] : $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

Sorry for the confusion, but i was able to get it worked out. Thanks for the help.

FYI, here’s the link where I found my solution:

https://crasstalk.com/2013/06/how-to-get-the-real-ip-address-when-all-traffic-comes-from-cloudflare/

Ok thanks for the update Chris.