Wordfence blocking my ip!

  • Resolved othmnah

    (@othmnah)


    6 years, 12 months ago

    Hello,

    After updating wordfence to the latest update, it seems that I cannot edit my pages using the Elementor plugin at all. After any edit, I click “publish” or “save as draft” and I get:
    server error (403 forbidden).
    After disabling all plugins and enabling them one by one again, I figured Wordfence is causing the problem.
    In the page of Wordfence surprisingly it says that it has blocked multiple attacks but they are all associated with my own ip address!! so they’re not attacks. How to solve this problem?

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  • Thread Starter othmnah

    (@othmnah)

    Nevermind, I fixed it.
    For anyone encoutering such error this is a fix from Wordfence website:
    “403 Forbidden. A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site.
    If you see this message it means Wordfence has blocked you for violating a Firewall rule. If you are an admin on the site check “Live Traffic” and locate the request that was blocked. If you are sure that the request is safe and should not be blocked, you can whitelist the action from there. If you are not an admin on the site, contact the site owner for assistance.”

    Hi @othmnah,

    Thanks for the update. I’m glad you managed to fix the issue.

    In a case like this one, we usually recommend temporarily switching the Firewall Status to “Learning Mode“.

    How do you check Live traffic?

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