how to block wordpress login attack

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hansheld
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how to block wordpress login attack

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Hello, I am new to ConfigServer. My DirectAdmin reports many Wordpress login attacks (threshold > 50), but ConfigServer Firewall seems not to block these IP numbers. How to arrange that?
Thanks, Hans
giuga
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Re: how to block wordpress login attack

Post by giuga »

Hi,

I suggest you use something like iThemes Security for wordpress. That will block the fake login attempts.

Also I suggest you use https://github.com/gabrieliuga/stop-xml ... attack.php to block out xmlrpc.php exploit which can cause a high server load. This could be blocked in CSF but might also make it so that it blocks legit connections afterwards.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Gabi
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