Title: Firewall blocks theme editing
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Firewall blocks theme editing

 *  [Alwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-opti/)
 * (@wp-opti)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-blocks-theme-editing/)
 * I am usen Porcelain theme from Pexeto and the Wordfence plugin with firewall 
   enabled. Today I wanted to make a little change in the theme options (I wanted
   to enable a scroll up button) but the change was blocked by the WF firewall with
   this message:
 * admin in Netherlands Groningen, Netherlands left [http://www.xxxxxx.nl/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pexeto_options](http://www.xxxxxx.nl/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pexeto_options)
   and was blocked by firewall for XSS: Cross Site Scripting in POST body: analytics
   =%3Cscript%3E%0A%20%20(function(i%2Cs%2Co%2Cg%2Cr%2Ca%2Cm)%7Bi%5B’GoogleAnalyticsObject’%
   5D%3Dr%3Bi%5… at [http://www.xxxxxx.nl/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php](http://www.xxxxxx.nl/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php)
 * Now, the Google Anayltics code seems to be the problem? The GA code is in the
   same theme options page as the setting that I wanted to change. So what is causing
   the problem here?
 * After whitelisting in the WF firewall I was able to edit the theme and make the
   change. But I still like to know what is causing this problem?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-blocks-theme-editing/#post-7348043)
 * Hello Alwin,
    I have checked with the team and can confirm this is a false positive.
   I will file it and it should be automatically whitelisted in future versions.
   Our internal case number is FB1757. Thanks for reporting Alwin.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-blocks-theme-editing/#post-7348043)
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