Title: WordPress causing failed login attempts on server?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress causing failed login attempts on server?

 *  Resolved [tsukata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsukata/)
 * (@tsukata)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-failed-login-attempts-on-server/)
 * My webhost keeps blocking my home IP address due to failed logins from my own
   IP address. I’m the only person at my IP address, so I asked them for the log
   to try to determine how I’m failing at logging in without realizing it. They 
   provided this:
 *     ```
       [Tue Aug 26 21:20:05 2008] [error] [client ((MY HOME's IP))] mod_security:
       Access denied with code 403. Pattern match
       "!(^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$|^multipart/form-data;)" at
       HEADER("Content-Type") [severity "EMERGENCY"] [hostname "((MY DOMAIN))"]
       [uri "/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"] [unique_id
       "SLSrxUgdSiMAAGD@DYg"]
       ```
   
 * I’ve searched high and low for some login in WordPress that would be incorrect,
   but I can’t find it. My webhost did change my password on me not long ago, so
   it’s possible that something I configured when I installed wordpress is now calling
   a bad password. I can’t find where that would be, though.
 * Any ideas? I have a feeling this is something simple, and I’m just being too 
   blockheaded to find it!

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-failed-login-attempts-on-server/#post-843931)
 * mod_security sucks, doesn’t it? They’re blocking the AJAX requests that the admin
   screen is making.
 * Disable mod_security in your wp-admin directory by making an .htaccess file there
   and putting this into it:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_security.c>
       SecFilterEngine Off
       SecFilterScanPOST Off
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [tsukata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsukata/)
 * (@tsukata)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-failed-login-attempts-on-server/#post-843970)
 * Ah ha! Thank you!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [tsukata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsukata/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-failed-login-attempts-on-server/#post-843970)
 * Status: resolved

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