False Positives with Banned URLs

  • Resolved CmdrKeene

    (@shawnkeenegmailcom)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    I’m seeing blocks for banned URLs but they are URLs that do not exist in my site structure NOR inside the banned URL list, so I’m confused what it’s matching upon.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hi @shawnkeenegmailcom

    Once an IP address is blocked for visiting a banned URL then any subsequent request for any URL from that IP address will have that block reason (whilst the block is active) because that is the original reason why the IP address was blocked.

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    Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

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    • This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by wfpeter. Reason: Duplicate message
    Thread Starter CmdrKeene

    (@shawnkeenegmailcom)

    Thanks, I appreciate that knowledge. I know in some cases these look like obvious probing (sometimes even from humans), but it appears a great volume of these are coming from MSN/Bing bot trying to crawl nonsense pages and URL paths that don’t exist and never existed.

    That’s totally separate issue that has nothing to do with WF itself though.

    Bing seems to think it’s seeing a 302 when it hits the URL (WF firewall shows a 503) and when I test the URL in a browser I see my 404 page (and testing with a header checking site does indeed show a 404 header is returned) so I don’t know why the bing bot keeps trying it hit it anyway. But that’s definitely not a WF problem so I’ll take the problem to bing.

    Thread Starter CmdrKeene

    (@shawnkeenegmailcom)

    Discovered the Cloudflare “Bot Blocker” was causing my issue.

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