Failed to prevent 800 login attempts in 5 min

  • Woke up this morning to emails alerting me there had been 20 login attempts from 40 IP addresses in five minutes – all with Captcha by BestWebSoft installed. Either a lot of people were doing a lot of 1 + 1 math problems in a very short amount of time, or this plugin was not successful in ensuring each login attempt is from a human being. I’ve since switched to a Captcha plugin that uses images.

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  • Hi,

    Thank you for your feedback.

    Is there a caching plugin on your site?

    Also, to solve this problem, you can try the following:

    1) Please try activating a standard WP theme for a while (2014, 2015) and check if the problem remains.
    2) Please try deactivating all of your plugins except Captcha and also check if the problem is still present. If it is not, please activate the plugins one-by-one, meanwhile checking, after which plugin activation the problem appears again.
    3) Please provide your System status as well. Follow the next instruction – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wi2X8RdRGXk9kMszQy1xItJrpN0ncXgioH935MaBKtc/edit
    4) Please let us know about the results.

    Have a nice day.

    Sincerely,
    BestWebSoft Support Team

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