Admin-Ajax Whitelist

  • Resolved itsthenewdc

    (@itsthenewdc)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    I was trying to download submissions from the Ninja Forms plugin, but it kept saying failing to load admin-ajax. Come to find out, Sucuri was blocking access to this. I was told to whitelist the php file in the Hardening tab, however, the admin-ajax.php file is in the wp-admin folder, and the whitelist tab only has options for the wp-includes, wp-content, and wp-content/uploads folders, not the wp-admin. How can I go about whitelisting this file?

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  • Those are the only options available because those are the only directories affected by the hardening applied by the Sucuri plugin. You said that you found that the plugin was blocking the requests to the “admin-ajax.php” file even when the plugin is not designed to block any request sent to the “wp-admin” directory, can you explain how did you get to that conclusion?

    Thread Starter itsthenewdc

    (@itsthenewdc)

    Because when I disable the plugin the issue doesn’t occur and getting the export from Ninja Forms works fine and admin-ajax loads properly. When Sucuri plugin is activate it fails to load the resource and Ninja Forms can’t proceed. This failure to load resource also occurs by just visiting the dashboard, so I doubt it’s a Ninja Forms issue.

    Fixed with commit #10c19b9 [1] (Ajax requests will not be monitored anymore).

    [1] https://github.com/Sucuri/sucuri-wordpress-plugin/pull/29/commits/10c19b9

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