Jetpack Protect vs ipv6 XML-RPC multicall attacks

Hi,

I’ve been testing a WP instance I have which has the Jetpack Protect module enabled to determine the protection against XML-RPC multicall attacks (with a view to enabling rules in an IPS too block these).

However, I’m seeing differing behaviour according to whether the requests go via ipv4 or ipv6 as follows:

ipv4:

user@source:~$ curl -4 -X POST --data @xmlrpc-pentest.txt  https://host/xmlrpc.php

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
  <fault>
    <value>
      <struct>
        <member>
          <name>faultCode</name>
          <value><int>403</int></value>
        </member>
        <member>
          <name>faultString</name>
          <value><string>Your IP (x.x.x.x) has been flagged for potential s                                                                                                                                               ecurity violations.  <a></string></value>
        </member>
      </struct>
    </value>
  </fault>
</methodResponse>

ipv6:

user@source:~$ curl -6 -X POST --data @xmlrpc-pentest.txt  https://host/xmlrpc.php
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>
      <array><data>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>403</int></value></member>
  <member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Incorrect username or password.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>403</int></value></member>
  <member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Incorrect username or password.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>403</int></value></member>
  <member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Incorrect username or password.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>403</int></value></member>
  <member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Incorrect username or password.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>403</int></value></member>
  <member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Incorrect username or password.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
  <value><struct>
  <member><name>faultCode</name><value><int>403</int></value></member>
  <member><name>faultString</name><value><string>Incorrect username or password.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
  ...etc....
</struct></value>
</data></array>
      </value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodResponse>

Is there anything obvious here that I’m missing in the setup here which needs to be switched on to make the response the same under ipv6 as ipv4? The ipv6 version doesn’t appear to be doing anything really to protect – it just blindly tries the logins, whereas ipv4 blocks – and there’s nothing I can find that says it doesn’t work (indeed the whitelisting of IPs seems to indicate it should work as ipv6 is mentioned there)..

Thanks

Graeme

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