Blocking IP before breaking a WAF rule

  • Resolved sahuaro007

    (@sahuaro007)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Im able to block any ip when I see suspect activity and block ip works fine for me.

    Also monthly I recieve on my email report and I can see a section called “Recently Blocked Attacks”, but each IP can make to many attacks because that IP’s are not blocked.

    My question is: How can I block an ip at first (or second) break WAF rule (attack)? this is to prevent more attacks tries.

    thanks in advance!

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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @sahuaro007

    It is impossible for Wordfence to prevent any IP addresses from sending malicious requests to your web server, but Wordfence will block them when they reach your installation of WordPress. This is all done automatically for you. You can block IP addresses manually if you want to but this is generally an ineffective strategy. You can read about this here:

    https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#ip-address

    See the link Ask Wordfence: Should I Permanently Block IPs That I See Wordfence Blocking?

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