{"id":19024449,"date":"2026-09-20T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=19024449"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:09:09","slug":"wp-json-401-errors","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wp-json-401-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"WP JSON 401 errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been seeing CPU spikes a lot, and when we opened the error log on server, we found these 401 queries are hitting us every second after the latest WordPress update.<br \/><br \/>Cannot understand how to stop or block them. <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026-09-20 13:30:42Error71.200.108.148401GET \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/86505 HTTP\/1.1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nervous-johnson.192-241-130-6.plesk.page\/cp\/theme\/icons\/16\/plesk\/log-browser-client.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/151.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36\" \/>2.66 KApache SSL\/TLS access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026-09-20 13:30:43Error113.212.108.25401GET \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17402 HTTP\/1.1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nervous-johnson.192-241-130-6.plesk.page\/cp\/theme\/icons\/16\/plesk\/log-browser-client.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/151.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36\" \/>2.66 KApache SSL\/TLS access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026-09-20 13:30:43Error217.43.172.30401GET \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27855 HTTP\/1.1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nervous-johnson.192-241-130-6.plesk.page\/cp\/theme\/icons\/16\/plesk\/log-browser-client.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/151.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36\" \/>2.66 KApache SSL\/TLS access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026-09-20 13:30:45Error103.166.248.18401GET \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116433 HTTP\/1.1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nervous-johnson.192-241-130-6.plesk.page\/cp\/theme\/icons\/16\/plesk\/log-browser-client.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/151.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36\" \/>2.66 KApache SSL\/TLS access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026-09-20 13:30:45Error189.219.190.120401GET \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/95886 HTTP\/1.1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nervous-johnson.192-241-130-6.plesk.page\/cp\/theme\/icons\/16\/plesk\/log-browser-client.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/151.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36\" \/>2.66 KApache SSL\/TLS access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026-09-20 13:30:47Error38.226.139.85401GET \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/89858 HTTP\/1.1<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nervous-johnson.192-241-130-6.plesk.page\/cp\/theme\/icons\/16\/plesk\/log-browser-client.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/151.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36\" \/>2.66 KApache SSL\/TLS access<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prnt.sc\/DazZsz2pmiwa\">https:\/\/prnt.sc\/DazZsz2pmiwa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/e187a1ca-15a6-47cf-8485-cad074dbf2f6\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please do Help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best Regards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19024449","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19024452,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024449\/revisions\/19024452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19024449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}