Yes, I’d love to see an option with this plugin to simply export a csv file with data – I found your plugin looking for something to do exactly that, it’s very close.
1 – a LOT of people have WP running in environments where they do not have root access, and even the ones that do normally do not have the chops to play with things like fail2ban.
2 – An exported list will give us the option to manually look at the list for patterns, and use it for other things.
Currently I look at sucuri’s log of failed logins and the log from limit login attempts – then manually look up the worst offenders with myip ms or similar – and then look up the host’s cidr and block a few thousand ips at once via htaccess.
Sometimes I copy / paste limit login attempts details from more than one wp install and compare in an excel(ish) sheet – looking for patterns / worst offenders.
I could see this data pulled into a seperate plugin for other users – would be nice to automate the host lookup, country code, owner’s cidr, etc –
Some ISPs get abuse notices sent with details – some just get plain blocked by htaccess.
I found another plugin that blocks via htaccess – but it only adds one single IP to the list – and I think the best way to handle these attacks are to block the largest blocks at a time.
But we need the data in a better format than limit login attempts provides, and i’ve not found a method to export the data from sucuri (yet, I’m sure a simple mysql cmmd would do it)
So in the short term, this data exported would be nice – perhaps in the long term someone can whip something that extends the data gathered into more info pulled from elsewhere, and then bring up options for more things to do.
