IPv4 and IPv6 ranges

  • I get emails from my WordPress:

    A lockdown event has occurred due to too many failed login attempts or invalid username:
    Username: admin
    IP Address: 83.57.33.201

    IP Range: 83.57.33.*

    I guess they are from this plugin (it would be better to mention in the email, which plugin sent them).

    The IP ranges work OK for IPv4, but for IPv6 something is broken, as I get:

    A lockdown event has occurred due to too many failed login attempts or invalid username:
    Username: admin
    IP Address: 2a02:1810:2d1d:900:d42e:1605:3180:1f8a

    IP Range: .*

    I guess /64 should be blocked with IPv6 and only /32 (host IP) with IPv4. Is there a way to have IPv6 fixed and maybe a netmask length configurable? I don’t want to lock whole /24’s.

    Thank you for the great plugin.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

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  • Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi Grzegorz.Janoszka, thank you for reporting this. One of the plugin developers will looking into this issue further.

    Regards

    Plugin Contributor wpsolutions

    (@wpsolutions)

    Hi Grzegorz,

    Thanks for the information regarding the IPv6 behaviour.

    Currently the plugin does not support IPv6 but we do have plans to add such support in a future release.
    Please note that we currently have other higher priority features and fixes we need to perform first.

    Thread Starter Grzegorz.Janoszka

    (@grzegorzjanoszka)

    Well, WordPress supports very well IPv6 as my WP site is hosted on dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 server and I have quite a lot of visitors on v6. If you create a plugin for WordPress that does something with IP addresses you can’t tell it doesn’t support IPv6.

    So please consider adding a checkbox to block only an offending host versus the whole subnet. Please also recognize IPv6 addresses and handle them properly as WordPress works really well on IPv6 and you have no idea how many sites use IPv6.

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