andrewm57

Thanx.

Thanx. This was a stupidly persistent bot that hit over 10K times in an hour. Not a DDOS, just not throttled. Plus that IP went on to hit other sites in my shared hosting plan. I ended up using IP Blocker in cPanel to stop it.

I figured things out, close please.

Here’s the count portion plus one line of the IP block from 3 sequential emails on 8/7, and the WF block table screenshot. FYI I manually added the IP block on 8/2. The emails total 589, the table shows 450.

This email was sent from your website “[deleted]” by the Wordfence plugin at Monday 7th of August 2023 at 03:34:08 AM
The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: https://[deleted]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
The Wordfence Web Application Firewall has blocked 169 attacks over the last 10 minutes.

This email was sent from your website “[deleted]” by the Wordfence plugin at Monday 7th of August 2023 at 04:01:48 AM
The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: https://[deleted]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
The Wordfence Web Application Firewall has blocked 273 attacks over the last 10 minutes.

This email was sent from your website “[deleted]” by the Wordfence plugin at Monday 7th of August 2023 at 04:08:15 AM
The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: https://[deleted]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
The Wordfence Web Application Firewall has blocked 147 attacks over the last 10 minutes.

Below is a sample of these recent attacks:
August 7, 2023 11:07am 213.202.211.149 (Germany) Blocked for Known malicious User-Agents

Wow, that’s an obscure setting! Fixed the confusing issue, thanx. And FWIW I don’t consider a blank entry on the admin menu a ‘suggestion’.

Interesting. Thanx.

Anybody? It’s been 3 weeks since I started this thread.

Per the screenshot 2 above, WC Payments shows on the Payments tab, but is not installed?! The parent site doesn’t show WC Payments on the Payments tab. The site cloned using a complete Akeeba copy to this site a couple years ago and they’ve been maintained separately since then. Both originally were used as catalog only – no payment gateway. Last year I added Authorize.net to the parent, and now I added it to this site. All plugins and the theme are the same.

WC Payments is indeed not installed per below, so how is it on the menu?
https://hawkfeather.com/tmp/wc-payments2.png
It’s a live site, so I don’t want to mess with themes and plugins. I’ll clone it to dev space if necessary.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by andrewm57.

OK, I’ve uploaded the status report to my own site, alongside the initial screenshots.
https://hawkfeather.com/tmp/230704-wc-status.txt

• The original site (Site 2 on screenshot above) that this is cloned from does not have a Payments menu item, with exactly the same software installed
• there are no WC logs fatal or otherwise
• I’m not going to paste the system report here, it has all the private info – how can I get it to you?

Thanx for the quick support. My client chose not to use this feature.

The new version installed and activated OK. However the shortcode isn’t triggering.
https://dev.wildmercury.biz/
FWIW I did get it to run in the Footer2 widget, but it’s not what my client is looking for, so I’ll uninstall it after take a look. Thanx for the help.

https://www.wildmercury.biz/images/category.png

Done, thanx, close.