Title: 403 Forbidden Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # 403 Forbidden * [mah86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mah86/) * (@mah86) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-101/) * I am trying to update my slider when i do i get 403 Forbidden error every time * ``` 403 Forbidden A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site, and has been blocked by Wordfence. If you are an administrator and you are certain this is a false positive, you can automatically whitelist this request and repeat the same action. I am certain this is a false positive. ``` * after i click “I am certain this is a false positive” i still get this error * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [TeamKaeru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teamkaeru/) * (@teamkaeru) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-101/#post-7309140) * Has been reported already and they’re working on a fix. * The only thing that fixed it for me in the interim was to disable the plugin altogether because it wouldn’t allow me to disable just the firewall – kept auto- turning it back on. * Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/) * (@wfmattr) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-101/#post-7309235) * Hi mah86, * There are two possibilities — if you can go to the Firewall and switch the firewall status to Learning Mode, you should normally be able to complete the actions, and they’ll be whitelisted for the future, and then you can switch the firewall back to Enabled and Protecting. If you see multiple new entries on the whitelist at the bottom of the Firewall page, you can post a screenshot of what you’re seeing (and the name of the slider plugin), and we’ll see if it needs a custom whitelist rule. * The second possibility, if the site is hosted on a Windows server, the whitelist entries and firewall status cannot be saved. If that is the case, the issue will be fixed in the next release. * Wordfence is not officially supported on Windows platforms (see [https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_system_requirements](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_system_requirements)), but we do address issues when we can. * If necessary, you can add this line to wp-config.php to disable the firewall feature: `define('WFWAF_ENABLED', false);` * If you’ve already enabled the “Extended Protection”, add the code to the wordfence- waf.php file instead, just below the “