Title: Incident rules
Last modified: October 12, 2020

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# Incident rules

 *  Resolved [julia77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julia77/)
 * (@julia77)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incident-rules/)
 * Hello,
 * I´d like to know what means RULE 531 and RULE 1479 when reporting incidents.
 * Thanks,
 * Julia
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fincident-rules%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/)
 * (@nintechnet)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incident-rules/#post-13524014)
 * Rule 531 is a policy: “Firewall Policies > Intermediate Policies > Block suspicious
   bots/scanners”. It is used to block hackers’ bots and scanners, as well as some
   annoying crawlers.
 * Rules 1479 handles some security issues that could affect the “HTTP_REFERER” 
   variable, such as local file inclusion or directory traversal vulnerabilities
   for instance.

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