Title: Increased Attack Rate
Last modified: September 28, 2016

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# Increased Attack Rate

 *  [rakshv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rakshv/)
 * (@rakshv)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-attack-rate/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rakshv/)
 * (@rakshv)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-attack-rate/#post-8232172)
 * I see all the attacks are from our IP address.
 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-attack-rate/#post-8238791)
 * 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](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/I'm_sorry._I'm_not_very_technical._How_do_I_take_a_screenshot%3F)
   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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acard21/)
 * (@acard21)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-attack-rate/#post-8853538)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acard21/).
 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-attack-rate/#post-8858736)
 * Hi [@acard21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acard21/)
    It doesn’t seem 
   to be related to your hosting, it could be just a [brute force attack](https://www.wordfence.com/learn/how-to-harden-wordpress-sites/#strong-passwords)
   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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/).

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 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-attack-rate/#post-8858736)
 * Status: not resolved