WP Affiliate links get “We’re sorry, you are not allowed”

  • garydgshea

    (@garydgshea)


    6 months ago

    Hello,

    I don’t know anything about the WP Cerber Security plugin but I have a client who is using WooCommerce and WP Affiliates. He tells me that he received an email from an affiliate stating that “A friend is trying to place an order in the states with my referral link and code but gets this message ‘We’re sorry, you are not allowed to proceed'”
    The link is “https://theultrahuman.net/affiliate/Beth%40bfit-thewrightway.com/“

    I tried some other WP Affiliate links and the same thing happens. However, if the Affiliate link does not contain the “%40” in the url, it works fine.

    Does anybody know why this would occur? Just for your info, the client said that these links were working until just recently.

    Thanks

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  • We normally would not respond but your post helped up so here goes.

    1. We have WP Ceber installed and enabled and got the “We’re sorry” message.
    2. We disabled WP Cerber (as we saw it in your post) and got Access Denied from WordPress.
    3. We remember that the .htaccess in a subfolder allows only the client IP to access the file.
    4. We checked and the ISP issued new IPs to the client so we added those to the .htaccess file. (see sample)
    5. The client can access the file with WP Ceber enabled.

    Can the issue come back? Yes! The ISP could change the IPs again but we can password protect the file instead if the client decides.

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.)?aff.php(.)$ [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^8.8.8.8$
    RewriteRule ^(.)$ – [R=403,L

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