Title: Question about login attempts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Question about login attempts

 *  [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-login-attempts/)
 * One of my WordPress installations is under attack and has been for a while now.
   Today, I’ve noticed login attempts using a number as the login id instead of 
   an alphanumeric string of characters, like a username like “bob” or “admin”.
 * I’ve got some security measures in place and I’m actively monitoring things but
   I wanted to see if anyone knew of any past WordPress exploits involving logins
   or login attempts using a number, like 0, 1 50, 100, etc., instead of an expected
   alphanumeric string, like “bob7” or “admin”?
 * Thanks!
 * Peace…

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-login-attempts/#post-3641441)
 * > any past WordPress exploits involving logins or login attempts using a number,
   > like 0, 1 50, 100
 * Very doubtful; that would be a _huge_ security hole.
 * Try [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/)
   or [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-security-solution/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-security-solution/)
 *  Thread Starter [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-login-attempts/#post-3641450)
 * Thanks for the reply. I’ve got those and some other plugins installed already.
   I’m confident their attempts will fail but I want to be sure I’m not over looking
   anything fairly obvious. 🙂
 * Thanks!
 * Peace…
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-login-attempts/#post-3641456)
 * There are hundreds of developers for WordPress who look for obvious things like
   that. The login sequence is pretty bulletproof.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-login-attempts/#post-3641456)
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