Firewall Blocking

  • Resolved gatsman

    (@gatsman)


    9 months, 1 week ago

    Hello, how can i block these 2 bots in the firewall?
    facebookexternalhit/1.1
    Amazonbot/0.1

    69.171.249.13 - - [12/Jun/2024:10:02:53 +0300] "GET /shop/…..HTTP/2" 403 1242 "-" "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+https://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)"
    23.22.35.162 - - [12/Jun/2024:10:02:53 +0300] "GET /shop/……" 403 1242 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)"

    I am having some high traffic from them but i can’t block them no matter how i write the User Agent
    (Blocking the IP is not an option as they use multiple)
    Please see image: https://ibb.co/qgtbLqC

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @gatsman,

    Is Facebook still blanket allowlisted using the checkbox in Wordfence > All Options > Firewall Options > Advanced Firewall Options? You may need to disable that if not.

    I would also try facebookexternalhit* and Amazonbot* as your custom User-Agent block strings to allow for future numeric changes after the slash. Sometimes, if a block is catching bots with those User-Agents first (like an IP or firewall rule, for example) then your block count could be 0 as they’re not making it as far as your custom block pattern.

    Let me know if the modifications above change anything,
    Peter.

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