Title: WordPress Firewall No Plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Firewall No Plugin

 *  [spartyjoe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spartyjoe/)
 * (@spartyjoe)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-firewall-no-plugin/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m using WordPress Firewall 2 and it reported the following:
 * WordPress Firewall has detected and blocked a potential attack!
 * _Web Page:
    wp-content/plugins/1-flash-gallery/upload.php?action=uploadify&fileext
   =php Warning: URL may contain dangerous content! Offending IP: 178.137.166.209[
   Get IP location ] Offending Parameter: $\_FILE = index.bak.php
 * This may be a “Executable File Upload Attack.”
 * I’m also using NextGEN Gallery v1.9.2, but not 1-flash-gallery plugin. Any ideas
   as how to start tracking down the root cause?

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 *  [kendawes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendawes/)
 * (@kendawes)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-firewall-no-plugin/#post-2559480)
 * Hi Joe,
 * What Firewall 2 is reporting is that the attack was trying to exploit a (possible)
   vulnerability in 1-flash-gallery.
 * If you had that plugin and didn’t have Firewall 2, you might have a problem!
 * Think of the WordPress attackers as having a really big keychain with lots and
   lots of keys that they keep trying on your door. They keep trying different keys
   in the hope that *one* of them will fit. Firewall 2 just lets you know that their
   key didn’t work….
 * Ken
 *  [kendawes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendawes/)
 * (@kendawes)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-firewall-no-plugin/#post-2559481)

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 * Last reply from: [kendawes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendawes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-firewall-no-plugin/#post-2559481)
 * Status: not resolved

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