A ton of logs in one log file

  • Hi guys,

    When viewing logs in WP > Audit Log Viewer, I can see things like user requested 1 non-existing page, and with numbers up to 4-8. However, when I open that log txt file to see what are the non-existing URLs for that specific user/IP, I see about a 100 of them. Even when the system says it’s 1-2 non-existing pages, the log file has about 100 requested URLs, of all kinds.

    This wasn’t the case before and I just noticed this today, I think it was fine 2 days ago.

    Any thoughts what could be the reason here?

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  • Plugin Author WPWhiteSecurity

    (@wpwhitesecurity)

    Hello @deanysus,

    Thank you for using our plugin and taking the time to report such issue. I have a few questions for you, so we can start troubleshooting this issue:

    1. It was fine two days ago; do you mean this started happening since you updated the plugin to the latest version?

    2. Is this for alert 6007 (logged in user) or alert 6023 (website visitor)?

    Looking forward to hearing from you.

    Thread Starter deanysus

    (@deanysus)

    Hi @wpwhitesecurity

    Thanks for the reply.

    1. I’m not 100% certain, but it’s definitely possible that it was due to plugin update. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm this with complete certainty.

    2. This is for 6023. We don’t have any users getting 404s, only website visitors.

    Just FYI, I’m seeing this on ALL of my WP sites that are using this plugin.

    It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/nqDzTVu.png and just goes on for about 50-100 entries per SINGLE log file for a SINGLE website visitor/IP.

    Plugin Author WPWhiteSecurity

    (@wpwhitesecurity)

    Hello @deanysus,

    Unfortunately we are unable to reproduce this issue so first we should try to see if this started happening since the upgrade. Would it be possible to downgrade?

    All you need to do is:

    1) Make sure the option “Remove Data Upon Uninstall” is disabled in the plugin’s settings.

    2) Disable the plugin.

    3) Remove the plugin (no data will be lost if the option mentioned in step one is disabled)

    4) Download version 2.6.5.

    5) Install it manually (procedure to install a plugin manually)

    Is the issue still occurring or not on version 2.6.5?

    Looking forward to hearing from you.

    Thread Starter deanysus

    (@deanysus)

    Hi @wpwhitesecurity

    Thanks for the assistance. I’m sorry I’m just seeing this now; I thought maybe most recent updates of the plugin will fix this but they didn’t.

    Anyway, I followed your instructions and tried to the 2.6.5 version. The issue still exist. I tried it on several WP installs, it’s the same across all.

    I also tried updating it, that doesn’t fix it either. I just keep seeing a huge log instead of specific URLs as I mentioned above. Basically, all logs are the same.

    Any other thoughts?

    Plugin Author WPWhiteSecurity

    (@wpwhitesecurity)

    Hello @deanysys,

    Can you please create a zip file with a few screenshots of the audit log and the log files themselves so we can take a look? Thank you.

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