too many admin lockout emails

This is happening because anyone (or botnets) can access your WP Dashboard login page (1) …

… and you are using the default “admin” user in WP (2)…

… and there is currently a known bug in the iTSec plugin ban code which prevents the plugin from permanently banning ip’s.

In short your WP website is vulnerable to brute force attacks.
The many admin user lockout emails you are receiving is proof of such an attack. I hope you are using a strong password …
If not change your “admin” user password IMMEDIATELY to a strong password !

Then you need to create a new administrator user (with a user name that is difficult to guess), logout and login again with the newly created administrator user and then delete the “admin” user (2).
Deleting the existing “admin” user will allow you to transfer all existing content to the newly created administrator user.

Then enable the iTSec plugin Hide Backend feature (1). This way botnets won’t be able to find the WP Dashboard login page …

dwinden

Hi dwinden,
Thanks for that detailed reply, it really helped me, and I also hope it will help others facing the same problem. Indeed, I left the admin user as it was but thankfully created a long and complex password. I have now created another user with admin access and deleted the default admin user. Again, thanks a million ??

Ok, great. Another WP website more secure …
But more importantly another person more security aware.
Really appreciate your positive feedback ??

One thing left to do, please mark the topic as ‘resolved’.

dwinden

If you require no further assistance please mark the topic as ‘resolved’.

dwinden

Hi Ameet Agarwal,

I am having to post here because I have no other way of contacting you.

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I was wanting to help with your website translation issues. I know my reply was very late, but I think that we can make your translation smoother. I like the solution you have chosen as an alternative, but if you really like how GLT worked, I can fix for you.

Would you please contact me here……https://wp-studio.net/contact/

… and mark this topic as resolved ??

The bug in the iTSec plugin auto ban code which prevented the plugin from automatically and permanently banning ip’s has been fixed in the 5.0.1 release.

dwinden

@ameet Agarwal

If you require no further assistance please mark this topic as ‘resolved’.

dwinden