Wordfence Messed Up the Site

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    (@salujagaurav)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I have installed Wordfence and configured it according to use and it was working perfectly. I changed one settings to log Live Visitors instead of Only Spam Requests/Visitors.

    After sometime my server load spiked up, I didn’t understand the reason. I checked top processes and analyzed the PID. All the processes were pinging waf files from the logs in wp-content folder. I immediately deactivated and deleted Wordfence, but the load was still there. I restarted the server , but it was still same. I checked the PID again and it was the same files present. So I deleted those files and waf-logs folder. Wordfence is completely gone now however the processes are still running without waf files. I am going insane to fix it. Site is really huge, very difficult to migrate.
    Please let me know the possible solution asap.

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  • Hi @salujagaurav,

    Can you check the .htaccess to file to see if auto_prepend_file = *** still references anything Wordfence related?

    Also can you check to make sure that on the FTP, the following folders do not exist?

    – /wp-content/plugins/wordfence/*
    – /wp-content/wflogs/*

    Dave

    Thread Starter S

    (@salujagaurav)

    .htaccess don’t have this line : auto_prepend_file = ***

    – /wp-content/plugins/wordfence/*
    – /wp-content/wflogs/*

    These folders doesn’t exists as well.

    Thread Starter S

    (@salujagaurav)

    There is a lot of Wordfence data in MySQL Table, some of those have crons and other stuff. How to remove Wordfence data from my database asap?

    Hi again,

    I don’t think Wordfence is related to the spike in resources to your server. Can you go into your plugins and disable all the plugins and see if your site goes back to normal?

    Dave

    Thread Starter S

    (@salujagaurav)

    Yes, the spike is still there even after disabling all plugins and ofcourse it was wordfence.

    See this current PID log https://prntscr.com/pgstsp

    Previously, there was wordfence file present in it. I deleted the file thinking that it might sort the issue, but to no avail. It’s still spiking up the cpu.

    lsphp process is litespeed php – a brand/type of php – what makes you think it is WordFence?

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