Title: Firewall Log question
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Firewall Log question

 *  Resolved [Nora McDougall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nora-mcdougall/)
 * (@nora-mcdougall)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-log-question/)
 * Per a previous thread, you alerted me to the potential issues with XML-RPC-API.
   Now, I see from the firewall log that regular attempts are made to access this
   file. My question is, does the log just show attempts at the file, or does the
   log show blocked attempts at the file? (I’m assuming the 2nd, but I’ve found 
   that making assumptions isn’t always a good thing!)
 *  26/Dec/15 01:42:59 #8738288 high – 46.148.18.162 POST /xmlrpc.php – Access to
   WordPress XML-RPC API – [/xmlrpc.php]
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 *  Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/)
 * (@nintechnet)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-log-question/#post-6885266)
 * Hi,
 * It means it was blocked. All attempts marked as “Medium”, “High” or “Critical”
   were blocked.
 *  Thread Starter [Nora McDougall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nora-mcdougall/)
 * (@nora-mcdougall)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-log-question/#post-6885305)
 * Thanks for confirming that!

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 * Last reply from: [Nora McDougall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nora-mcdougall/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-log-question/#post-6885305)
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