Title: HTTP Referer URL
Last modified: October 3, 2019

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# HTTP Referer URL

 *  Resolved [vikaspandey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vikaspandey/)
 * (@vikaspandey)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-referer-url/)
 * Hello,
    We are getting “info” Sanitising user input – [HTTP_REFERER:URL] -URL
   in logs but we are not seeing any rules indicating that is it kind of attack 
   or something else or if it is attack then how to prevent it
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/)
 * (@nintechnet)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-referer-url/#post-11993984)
 * It’s a firewall policy: “Firewall Policies > Intermediate Policies > HTTP_REFERER
   server variable > Sanitise HTTP_REFERER”.
 * It means that the referral URL contains one or more of the 12 characters that
   are sanitized by the firewall when this policy is enabled. See this link for 
   more details about NinjaFirewall sanitizing function: [https://blog.nintechnet.com/securing-wordpress-with-a-web-application-firewall-ninjafirewall/#sanitise](https://blog.nintechnet.com/securing-wordpress-with-a-web-application-firewall-ninjafirewall/#sanitise)
 *  Thread Starter [vikaspandey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vikaspandey/)
 * (@vikaspandey)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-referer-url/#post-11996680)
 * Hello,
    so it will protect from the attacks or not there is no rules defined 
   for that action it just counted as “info” please let us know Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/)
 * (@nintechnet)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-referer-url/#post-11998482)
 * Yes, it does protect from the attack.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-referer-url/#post-11998482)
 * Status: resolved