Title: Escape from error message loop over “invalid security token”
Last modified: September 26, 2016

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# Escape from error message loop over “invalid security token”

 *  [pastshelfdate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pastshelfdate/)
 * (@pastshelfdate)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-from-error-message-loop-over-invalid-security-token/)
 * I can only guess what WordPress version I have. Yesterday, it said it was fully
   up-to-date. Today I tried to open the front end of my online class project WordPress
   site (not public), and received an error message from WordFence. The message 
   looped, every time I clicked its ‘x’. I was able to follow the advice to reload
   the page, which stopped the error message looping. And I copied and pasted the
   first part of my URL, leaving out the admin-side string. I was able to open my
   front end in another tab.
 * In case I am unable to insert a screen capture, here is the text of the WordFence
   error message:
 * An error occurred
 * Your browser sent an invalid security token to
    Wordfence. Please try reloading
   this page or signing out and in again.
 * Thank you, your advice seemed to work. I submit this in case it can help other
   n00bs.

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 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-from-error-message-loop-over-invalid-security-token/#post-8230983)
 * Hi pastshelfdate,
    Thanks for sharing this one, you got this message mostly because
   your request to this page was expired, like if you left the page opened in one
   of your browser tabs then returned back to it later trying to perform any action
   there, reloading the page as mentioned in the message should work fine.
 * P.S. you can share screenshots with us anytime following [this guide](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/I'm_sorry._I'm_not_very_technical._How_do_I_take_a_screenshot%3F).
 * Thanks.

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 * [invalid](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/invalid/)
 * [security token](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/security-token/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-from-error-message-loop-over-invalid-security-token/#post-8230983)
 * Status: not resolved