Title: “Security Rules Violation”??
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# “Security Rules Violation”??

 *  [melonhead616](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melonhead616/)
 * (@melonhead616)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/)
 * I get this error when I try to edit information about the items in my media gallery
   and add them to a post as well as when I try to edit my theme from within WordPress:
 * > Security rules violation. Your IP has been logged. Please report this incidence
   > with your IP address of this browser session to the site owner or server administrator
   > if this is a false-positive.
 * I originally had the same problem with uploading that it seems many others have
   had (HTTP Error), but thankfully I got that resolved. I don’t know if this is
   related or not.
 * A Google search of this error message didn’t really help at all. I assume this
   is a WordPress error and not a server issue, but I’m no expert. Any ideas or 
   help from the WP community would be appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [melonhead616](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melonhead616/)
 * (@melonhead616)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744355)
 * Any ideas? Any help? I’d love to get this figured out. Thanks all!
 *  [Len](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenk/)
 * (@lenk)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744356)
 * WordPress doesn’t generate any such message that I’m aware of. Sounds like a 
   plugin. Are you using Bad Behaviour by any chance?
 *  [meifong16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meifong16/)
 * (@meifong16)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744377)
 * i’m having the same problem too and i do not use bad behaviour plugin at all.
   any idea what’s causing this? i cant upload any images and i’ve just upgraded
   to the latest wp.
 *  Thread Starter [melonhead616](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melonhead616/)
 * (@melonhead616)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744378)
 * I have Bad Behavior, but it is deactivated. It was causing me some other problems,
   so I decided to stop using it. Would it do any good to delete it altogether?
 *  [StrangeAttractor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangeattractor/)
 * (@strangeattractor)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744379)
 * See this thread:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/163902/page/2?replies=54](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/163902/page/2?replies=54)
 *  [meifong16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meifong16/)
 * (@meifong16)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744387)
 * dear strangeattractor, the problem that users on that particular thread is different
   to ours. I’ve installed the no flash plugin and i still get the same error message:
 * > Security rules violation. Your IP has been logged. Please report this incidence
   > with your IP address of this browser session to the site owner or server administrator
   > if this is a false-positive.

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## Tags

 * [false positive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/false-positive/)
 * [rules](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rules/)
 * [violation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/violation/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [meifong16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meifong16/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-rules-violation/#post-744387)
 * Status: not resolved

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