Some XML RPC request not generating logs

  • Hi,
    Some of the xmlrpc requests are generating auth log like :

    Authentication failure for xxxx from 51.255.163.23 via XML-RPC

    But in my apache logs I see a lot of these which are not generating auth logs :
    (i enabled WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_PINGBACKS)

    45.55.50.242 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:34 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    188.68.58.184 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:35 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    188.68.58.184 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:35 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    45.55.50.242 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:38 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    188.68.58.184 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:46 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    188.68.58.184 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:47 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    45.55.50.242 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:48 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
    45.55.50.242 – – [30/Jun/2016:18:27:52 +0200] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; https://www.google.com/bot.html)”

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  • Thread Starter contremaitre

    (@contremaitre)

    Looks like this is pingback :
    xmlrpc<?xmlversion="1.0"?><methodCall><methodName>pingback.ping</methodName><params><param><value><string>https://www.[xxx].com/</string></value></param><param><value><string>https://[xxx]</string></value></param></params></methodCall>
    And I did enable define(‘WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_PINGBACKS’,true);
    in wp-config.php

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