Title: CloudFlare Firewall Blocking Requests?
Last modified: October 9, 2020

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# CloudFlare Firewall Blocking Requests?

 *  Resolved [WillMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmitchell/)
 * (@willmitchell)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-firewall-blocking-requests/)
 * Hi there,
 * The plugin seems to be working great, but I’ve noticed a huge spike in CloudFlare
   Firewall Events since enabling.
 * Ray ID: 5dfab1a2c1eb0e5a
    Method: PUT HTTP Version: HTTP/1.1 Host: cloudflarestorage.
   com Path: /v7/b/-yb0bIj8H0Q2gNHQhQIEUV5T_r19mx5JsNDFtBrUDTA/worker/k/15955126:
   startupbros.com%2F Query string: ?urlencoded=true&expiration_ttl=2592000 User
   agent: Empty user agent IP address: 2a06:98c0:3600::103 WAF Rule ID: 100173 Rule
   message: XSS, HTML Injection – Script Tag Rule group: Cloudflare Specials Action
   taken: Block
 * I had none of these before enabling the plugin, and now I have 12,000 in the 
   first 12-hours since enabling…
 * Are these requests related to this plugin? I’m afraid requests are being blocked,
   or something is going wrong with CloudFlare caching the HTML (though it seems
   to be working).
 * Thanks so much for the great plugin,
    Will

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 *  Plugin Contributor [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-firewall-blocking-requests/#post-13516308)
 * Hi [@willmitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmitchell/),
    I use
   WAF on my site along with many of my client’s sites are also using WAF while 
   using this plugin. None of those websites has this WAF blocking. So, here are
   my thoughts on this matter: 1. Looking at the `path` and `query-string`, I can
   confidently say that this is not our plugin or any way related to this plugin.
   Seems like some sort of API endpoint URL structure. 2. This WAF blocking has 
   nothing to do with this plugin. I think this is a pure coincidence that when 
   you enabled the plugin at the safe time you received these attacks. 3. Moreover
   these attacks are already being blocked by Cloudflare, so you don’t have to worry
   about it. This plugin is not using any such request and especially not `PUT` 
   request.

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