Hi,
That means a bot is trying to login to your site as a user called “admin”. Since you don’t have a user called “admin” you are safe.
-Brian
Nice try Brian but this doesn’t answer the question. Why is Wordfence showing a failed login as an existing user when no such user exists?
Thanks, fourtytwo, for posting this with pics!
Yes, that had me bothered, too. My tab shows “Existing users” like admin and others, and I checked twice to make sure they don´t exist. Why does it show a “Yes” then, while other non-existent usernames correctly show “No”? What could be a possible reason / where would we have to look – or is it a bug?
It happened because of a bug that was addressed in this fix. If a person entered a username, any username at all, in the login box but did not enter a password , it was coming back as a valid user. This has been addressed in the new version.
Thanks
tim
Thanks for clarifying, Tim! 🙂
Hi,
I still got this problem with the latest Wordfence… 🙁
@daka64: Can you create a new post in this forum, and send screenshots with a description of the problem you are seeing? It might be a different issue since the original one has been fixed. Thanks!
