Title: Login error message
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Login error message

 *  Resolved [Tynael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tynael/)
 * (@tynael)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-error-message-5/)
 * Hello!
 * I have entered my password wrong for 5 times in a row and now I cannot login 
   into my wordpress website. Whenever I want to access [http://www.example.com/wplogin](http://www.example.com/wplogin)
   it gives me an “error” message.
 * How can I fix this?
 * Thank you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-error-message-5/#post-6074462)
 * There isn’t really anything to fix. The iTSec plugin brute force protection is
   doing its job.
 * A temporary host type lockout is occurring based on your ip address.
    By default
   the lockout expires after 15 minutes (unless you have set a different lockout
   expire period).
 * You can log into WP Dashboard from another computer. And from the iTSec plugin
   Dashboard (scroll down to the Active Lockouts metabox) you can release any host
   lockout that has not expired yet.
 * If you don’t have another computer you should be able to access the WP Dashboard
   again from the locked out host after 15 minutes.
 * To prevent (temporarily) locking yourself out you should whitelist your ip address.
 * If the provided info above answers your question please mark this topic as ‘resolved’.
 * dwinden

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-error-message-5/#post-6074462)
 * Status: resolved