Notifications of failed login

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    (@gangleri)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    One of my websites is popular for automated login attempts. Once a week or so I’m hammered with login attempts for a couple of days, all of which are nicely caught by Wordfence. Every non existing user name is blocked for four hours. Not that this helps much, since every new attempt has another IP (another country), but they won’t get far. The only thing is that I can’t get the frequency of the emails longer than 1 email per hour. Or can I? A summery per day would suffice for me.

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  • Hi @gangleri,

    I have something you can try to reduce the amount of emails you are receiving on your server:

    Try running this query:

    UPDATE wp_wfconfig set val=200 WHERE name="wafAlertThreshold";

    This means that once there are 200 invalid logins, you will receive an email. Feel free to tweak this number as required. (The default value for this was 100)

    Dave

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