Title: Autoptimize being attacked?
Last modified: July 29, 2017

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# Autoptimize being attacked?

 *  Resolved [oschicus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oschicus/)
 * (@oschicus)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-being-attacked/)
 * Dear Frank,
 * I just wanted to let you know that sucuri ha blocked this attack which seems 
   to go to Autoptimize:
 * Request Summary
 * Blocking Reason:MET043 – HTTP method not allowed
    Resource Path:WhitelistBlacklist/
   wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/ IP Address:WhitelistBlacklist79.232.208.123
   Reverse IP:p4FE8D07B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Request Method:OPTIONS HTTP Protocol:
   HTTP/1.0 HTTP Status:403 HTTP Referer:(no referer) HTTP User-Agent:Microsoft 
   Office Protocol Discovery Date/Time (GMT):29/Jul/2017:07:04:10 -0400
 * Please check this out, and if you have to sort something, do it as soon as possible.
 * I llove your plugin, and I don’t want that the same to be attaccked..
 * THANKS,
 * oSCAR

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-being-attacked/#post-9362887)
 * As far as I can see nothing to worry about:
    * most webservers have OPTIONS off
   anyhow * OPTIONS is not used or honored by AO at all * autoptimize cache-files
   by default are static, so there’s nothing to attack there (all is handled by 
   the webserver, no PHP-code active in `wp-content/cache/autoptimize`)
 * hope this clarifies,
    frank

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