Wordfence Web Application Firewall blocks googletag

  • Resolved Matt

    (@mrchef111)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    I keep getting notified that Wordfence is blocking this location. Likes hundreds of them. Here is exactly what it says in Wordfence.

    The Wordfence Web Application Firewall has blocked 100 attacks over the last 10 minutes. Below is a sample of these recent attacks:October 10, 2021 11:14pm 35.208.121.249 (United States) Blocked for LFI: Local File Inclusion in POST body: 0 = /home/customer/www/inthekitchenwithmatt.com/public_html/wp-content/cache/min/3rd-party/www.googletag

    Any thoughts? Is this messing up my google analytics?

    Thanks,

    Matt

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @mrchef111, thanks for getting in touch!

    This blocking appears to be for the WP Rocket plugin’s “Remove Unused CSS” feature.

    You can switch the firewall status to Learning Mode in Wordfence > All Options > Basic Firewall Options for a few days to see if it will hopefully catch all possible combinations of requests. Set a suitable date for it to automatically switch back to Enabled and Protecting.

    Alternatively, if you have a virtual private server or a dedicated server for just this website then you can add the server’s public IP address to the option Allowlisted IP addresses that bypass all rules found in the Wordfence > All Options > Advanced Firewall Options section. Do not do this if your site is hosted on a shared hosting server because if another compromised site on the same server attacks your site then the attacks will bypass all Wordfence protection.

    Thanks,

    Peter.

    Thread Starter Matt

    (@mrchef111)

    Awesome, thank you so much, Peter!! ??

    Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    No worries at all @mrchef111, if you have any Wordfence questions in future then don’t hesitate to open a new topic and we’ll be glad to help any time!

    Peter.

    Thread Starter Matt

    (@mrchef111)

    Thanks again!

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