Wordfence Not Catching a Brute Force Attack?

  • Resolved Brego.com

    (@slumbum)


    11 months, 1 week ago

    It seems a brute force attack is coming in hot on port xxxx…? Why didn’t Wordfence catch this? Are some ports vulnerable. My sys admin is MIA and I just wanna understand this.

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @slumbum, thanks for your question.

    Wordfence is an endpoint firewall that runs after PHP loads but, when optimized, before WordPress loads. This means that it can’t stop IPs from physically making requests to your site but it can stop them from being served any content. Wordfence wouldn’t be involved in the process if they were trying a different port directly rather than a browser request for your URL where PHP would run.

    You may need to use a firewall on your server to protect brute force attacks on other ports, or disable specific port numbers if they’re not in use.

    Thanks,
    Peter.

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