Wordfence blocking Amazon AWS ips

  • Resolved vipini

    (@vipini)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    What is this mean?

    
Ashburn, United States arrived from https://www.google.com/url?06e41948a4166c24f16fd659f7bf7af8 and was blocked by the Wordfence Security Network at https://www.example.com/wp-login.php
****/2019 ***** (**** 10 mins ago)  
IP: 54.208.156.252 Hostname: ec2-54-208-156-252.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Human/Bot: Bot
Browser: undefined
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  • wfdave

    (@wfdave)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @vipini,

    The IP 54.208.156.252 has been marked as malicious on Wordfence’s global blacklist.

    If you know that the IP is safe, and you want to allow this IP, you have two options:

    1. Whitelist that IP address

    Go to Wordfence -> All Options -> Advanced Firewall Options, and put that IP address under Whitelisted IP addresses that bypass all rules.

    2. Disable Wordfence security network

    Go to Wordfence -> All Options -> Additional Options, and uncheck Participate in the Real-Time Wordfence Security Network

    For example: https://i.imgur.com/OStWig3.png

    Dave

    Thread Starter vipini

    (@vipini)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    but its coming from amazon how can it be malicious?

    wfdave

    (@wfdave)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi again,

    AmazonAWS is a service that allows anyone to host websites and other applications.

    People may use AmazonAWS to host bots, or malicious tools to attack other websites.

    So even though it says amazonaws, the traffic is not coming from Amazon.

    Dave

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