Title: blocking admin login
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# blocking admin login

 *  Resolved [whitstable58](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitstable58/)
 * (@whitstable58)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-admin-login/)
 * Hi,
    I’ve the free version running on 6 or 7 sites all working brilliantly apart
   from 1. In that it has started blocking me out of admin, I get ‘you do not have
   sufficient permissions to access this page’. Asked hosting company to try logging
   in with my admin login details and they couldn’t. Disabled Wordfence and were
   able to do so. With WF disabled I got into the dashboard and deleted the plugin
   and reinstalled it hoping I’d be able to tweak the settings but soon as I activated
   it I was denied permission to the site. So had to go into Hosting Control Panel
   to delete it again so I could update site – but now with no Wordfence – the security
   I’ve grown to love. Help please.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [mishaua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mishaua/)
 * (@mishaua)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-admin-login/#post-7365701)
 * I am seeing this and have a dupe posting about it. Several other users are seeing
   this as well. This thread seems to have the most action though [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instant-lockout-following-fresh-install-on-multisite?replies=6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instant-lockout-following-fresh-install-on-multisite?replies=6)
 *  Thread Starter [whitstable58](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitstable58/)
 * (@whitstable58)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-admin-login/#post-7365703)
 * Thanks Mishaua – I’ll have a look
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-admin-login/#post-7365772)
 * Hello mishaua and whitstable58,
    we have a fix for this in the latest version
   of Wordfence which was just released. Please upgrade to the latest version and
   let me know how it goes.

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 * Last reply from: [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-admin-login/#post-7365772)
 * Status: resolved