Title: Bad Request
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bad Request

 *  [SickSquirrel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sicksquirrel/)
 * (@sicksquirrel)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-9/)
 * Updating a new theme, I went to Editor > header.php and clicked Update file. 
   This brought me to [http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php](http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php)
 * **Bad Request**
 * Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
 * I tried a few times. I like the theme but but doesn’t like me. I’m off to find
   a new one but am curious why it would do this.
 * Edit: I went to check error logs. Now I’m REALLY confused! I’ll dump ths theme
   for sure
 * [Tue Dec 17 15:42:53 2013] [error] [client 173.********] ModSecurity: Warning.
   Pattern match “(?:\\b(?:(?:type\\b\\W*?\\b(?:text\\b\\W*?\\b(?:j(?:ava)?|ecma
   |vb)|application\\b\\W*?\\bx-(?:java|vb))script|c(?:opyparentfolder|reatetextrange)
   |get(?:special|parent)folder|iframe\\b.{0,100}?\\bsrc)\\b|on(?:(?:mo(?:use(?:
   o(?:ver|ut)|down|move|up)|ve)|key(?:press|d …” at ARGS:newcontent. [file “/etc/
   httpd/modsecurity.d/modsecurity_crs_40_generic_attacks.conf”] [line “102”] [id“
   950004”] [msg “Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Attack”] [data “<meta”] [severity “
   CRITICAL”] [tag “WEB_ATTACK/XSS”] [hostname “www.xxxxxxxx.com”] [uri “/wp-admin/
   theme-editor.php”]
 * (no clue what it means but CRITICAL tells me to delete)

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 *  [PetruTiglar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petrutiglar/)
 * (@petrutiglar)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-9/#post-4423802)
 * Your Theme includes a script that the Server ModSecurity is Picking up. It may
   be a False positive and can be fixed. But my advice to you is to drop it and 
   find another theme.
 * Good Luck.
 *  Thread Starter [SickSquirrel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sicksquirrel/)
 * (@sicksquirrel)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-9/#post-4423995)
 * Thanks. Three more themes and each gave this Bad Request error. I found a perfect
   theme but need to edit something

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [SickSquirrel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sicksquirrel/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-9/#post-4423995)
 * Status: not resolved

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