Title: Question about Bot Blocking Process
Last modified: April 15, 2021

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# Question about Bot Blocking Process

 *  [Matt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r0bertsm/)
 * (@r0bertsm)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-bot-blocking-process/)
 * _Note: I also posted this on G2._
 * I work with a couple non-profit websites that use WPJobBoard, and we have WP 
   Cerber Security installed on both. Last week we had a spam bot try to register
   for an account, but WP Cerber stopped it. What is odd, is that instead of being
   totally blocked, the bot was able to create an employer profile under my admin
   account.
 * Here is the server log (EDT time zone) entry that coincides with the blocking
   of the bot…
 * 82.102.27.92 – – [07/Apr/2021:17:31:23 -0400] “POST /employer-panel/employer-
   registration/ HTTP/1.0” 200 17465 “[https://www.FakeDomain.org/employer-panel/employer-registration/&#8221](https://www.FakeDomain.org/employer-panel/employer-registration/&#8221);“
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
   Chrome/83.0.4099.2 Safari/537.36” 0 0 “on:TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256”
   2892 2190020 192.252.144.33 [http://www.FakeDomain.org](http://www.FakeDomain.org)
   redirect-handler – 82.102.27.92
 * And here is a screen shot from WP Cerber for that IP at this time (MST time zone):
   [https://d.pr/i/ergooH](https://d.pr/i/ergooH)
 * Is it possible that the bot was able to create an Employer Profile, but not fully
   register because of WP Cerber? And could WP Cerber have caused the employer profile
   to be assigned to the first user ID (which is mine as the administrator)?
 * Any thoughts would on this would be appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [Matt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r0bertsm/)
 * (@r0bertsm)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-bot-blocking-process/#post-14324811)
 * Why is this topic marked as spam? This is a legitimate question!
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-bot-blocking-process/#post-14342038)
 * Hi! It’s possible if a plugin developer does not abide by the WordPress coding
   standards and plugin development guides. Typically it is caused by a lack of 
   experience and knowledge. Most likely, the user was created by running a direct
   SQL insert query against the website database to directly add the new user row
   to the WordPress user table. Since the standard program flow of creating new 
   WordPress users was broken, it was not completely blocked by WP Cerber. To protect
   against such cases, you can use the professional version of WP Cerber. It maintains
   a separate user table.

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