Increased Attack Rate

  • rakshv

    (@rakshv)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    Have been using wordfence for quite sometime and its great, i have received numerous emails saying
    “The Wordfence Web Application Firewall has blocked 111 attacks over the last 10 minutes”
    Blocked for XSS: Cross Site Scripting in POST body. Not sure why its blocking this. Thanks

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  • Thread Starter rakshv

    (@rakshv)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    I see all the attacks are from our IP address.

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi rakshv,
    It could be related to one of the cases we are investigating meanwhile, to make sure of that please let me ask you some questions:
    – Are you on GoDaddy hosting plan?
    – Do you see any of these visits/attacks in “Live Traffic” log? sharing a screenshot with us would be helpful.
    – When you say “all the attacks are from our IP address”, do you mean from “127.0.0.1/localhost” or something else?

    I appreciate your help in reporting this issue.
    Thanks.

    acard21

    (@acard21)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hi wfalaa

    I have a Godaddy account.
    I have the paid version of Wordfence.

    From time to time I get these emails:
    The Wordfence Web Application Firewall has blocked 754 attacks over the last 10 minutes.

    But when it happens I keep getting them every 10 minutes during 2 hours more or less. In my case the attacks don’t come from my IP but they do come from U.S.

    Is this related to my Godaddy hosting account?

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by acard21.
    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @acard21
    It doesn’t seem to be related to your hosting, it could be just a brute force attack on the wp-login page, when this happens again try to check Wordfence Live Traffic log and filter it by “Blocked”, more details about these attacks should be there.

    Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by wfalaa.
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