{"id":19041137,"date":"2026-10-09T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-does-wordfence-get-ips-setting-notice\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:04:05","slug":"how-does-wordfence-get-ips-setting-notice","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-does-wordfence-get-ips-setting-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How does Wordfence get IPs\u2019 setting notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time I update Wordfence, I&#8217;m served the following notice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Your &#8216;How does Wordfence get IPs&#8217; setting is misconfigured. This site is currently using the Cloudflare &#8220;CF-Connecting-IP&#8221; HTTP header, which should only be used when the site is behind Cloudflare. For maximum security use PHP&#8217;s built in REMOTE_ADDR. Click here to use the recommended setting or visit the options page to manually update it.&#8221;<br><br>Our site is routed through Cloudflare, so this is appears to be improperly triggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19041137","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19041137","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19041137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19041137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}