Title: localhost cron lockouts
Last modified: March 15, 2019

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# localhost cron lockouts

 *  Resolved [jefferisp7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferisp7/)
 * (@jefferisp7)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-cron-lockouts/)
 * I am getting a lot of lockouts from localhost addresses. This site was created
   with a staging site and on the host, I believe they have set up automatic redirection.
   However, I spoke with tech support and they see for example that some of these
   requests were from CRON and are legitimate. I didn’t have them look up all requests,
   but plugin updates, Jetpack, Backup, etc. make valid requests. They don’t think
   that any faked IP addresses are being used. My questions are: can I safely unblock
   or whitelist these 2 localhosts?
    and when Cerber locks them out, is it preventing
   the aforementioned Cron and plugins, from working properly?
 * > 127.0.0.1 localhost March 16, 2019, 8:21 am Multiple suspicious activities 
   > were detected Remove
   >  ::1 localhost March 16, 2019, 8:16 am Multiple suspicious
   > activities were detected Remove
 *     ```
        	127.0.0.1
       localhost	March 15, 2019, 8:37 am	
       XML-RPC request denied IP address is locked out
       URL: stagingsite.pairsite.com/<strong>xmlrpc.php</strong>
       127.0.0.1 localhost	Firefox on Linux	
       March 15, 2019, 8:34 am	https://stagingsite.pairsite.com/wp-login.php
       POST HTTP 404 Not Found 452 ms
       Attempt to access prohibited URL IP address is locked out
       ::1 localhost	Firefox on Linux	
       March 15, 2019, 8:34 am	https://stagingsite.pairsite.com/wp-login.php
       GET HTTP 404 Not Found 438 ms
       Attempt to access prohibited URL IP address is locked out
       ```
   
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Flocalhost-cron-lockouts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [jefferisp7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferisp7/)
 * (@jefferisp7)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-cron-lockouts/#post-11317813)
 * Also, can hackers fake the localhost IP addresses?
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-cron-lockouts/#post-11318497)
 * I think this is your case: [https://wpcerber.com/wordpress-ip-address-detection/](https://wpcerber.com/wordpress-ip-address-detection/)
 * Hackers cannot fake localhost address if it’s normal, which is 127.0.0.1 in case
   of IPv4.
 *  Thread Starter [jefferisp7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferisp7/)
 * (@jefferisp7)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-cron-lockouts/#post-11318704)
 * Hi, I pushed my site from http to SSL/ https and I had to completely delete Cerber
   via FTP in order to be able to log in. It made it impossible for me to even get
   to the wp-login.php page even though my IP address was whitelisted.
 * Any recommendations?
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-cron-lockouts/#post-11319232)
 * To understand what’s going on you have to check the Activity log. Make sure that
   IP addresses are detected correctly.

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 * [cron](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cron/)
 * [Lockouts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lockouts/)

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 * Last reply from: [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-cron-lockouts/#post-11319232)
 * Status: resolved