Title: Status code 403
Last modified: August 25, 2021

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# Status code 403

 *  [i912](https://wordpress.org/support/users/i912/)
 * (@i912)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/status-code-403-2/)
 * When iThemes Security is enabled, the status code of the normal public page returns
   403.
    However, it is not actually 403 Forbidden, and the page itself is still
   displayed. When I disable iThemes Security, it returns 200. Why is this?
 * WordPress 5.8
    iThemes Security 8.0.2

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