WordPress causing failed login attempts on server?

  • Resolved tsukata

    (@tsukata)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    My webhost keeps blocking my home IP address due to failed logins from my own IP address. I’m the only person at my IP address, so I asked them for the log to try to determine how I’m failing at logging in without realizing it. They provided this:

    [Tue Aug 26 21:20:05 2008] [error] [client ((MY HOME's IP))] mod_security:
Access denied with code 403. Pattern match
"!(^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$|^multipart/form-data;)" at
HEADER("Content-Type") [severity "EMERGENCY"] [hostname "((MY DOMAIN))"]
[uri "/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"] [unique_id
"SLSrxUgdSiMAAGD@DYg"]

    I’ve searched high and low for some login in WordPress that would be incorrect, but I can’t find it. My webhost did change my password on me not long ago, so it’s possible that something I configured when I installed wordpress is now calling a bad password. I can’t find where that would be, though.

    Any ideas? I have a feeling this is something simple, and I’m just being too blockheaded to find it!

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    mod_security sucks, doesn’t it? They’re blocking the AJAX requests that the admin screen is making.

    Disable mod_security in your wp-admin directory by making an .htaccess file there and putting this into it:

    <IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

    Thread Starter tsukata

    (@tsukata)

    Ah ha! Thank you!

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