Allowing bot with User Agent and IP combination

[Gerben Dijkstra]

I have a Cookiebot bot that needs to index my site. According to the log the requests this bot is doing are being blocked by BPS Security plugin of my wordpress website.

In the bots documentation I have found an IP list and the user agent that the bot is using. How can I stop BPS Security from blocking it?

IP List:

• 20.223.9.138
• 34.107.102.47
• 34.141.10.24
• 34.159.86.126
• 34.159.168.195
• 34.159.247.222
• 35.198.78.207
• 35.198.137.6
• 35.198.160.49
• 35.246.143.2
• 35.246.191.14

User Agent:

HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.6668.29 Safari/605.1.15 (compatible; Usercentricsbot/1.0; +http://usercentrics.com/dps-scanner/)

[Gerben Dijkstra]

This is the full blocked entry from the log.

[403 GET Request: April 21, 2025 7:56 am]
BPS: 6.9
WP: 6.8
Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer
Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden
REMOTE_ADDR: 35.246.191.14
Host Name: 14.191.246.35.bc.googleusercontent.com
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.0
HTTP_CLIENT_IP:
HTTP_FORWARDED:
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:
HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP:
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_REFERER:
REQUEST_URI: /
QUERY_STRING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.6668.29 Safari/605.1.15 (compatible; Usercentricsbot/1.0; +http://usercentrics.com/dps-scanner/)

[AITpro Admin]

The User Agent nuisance security rule is causing the 403 error. What is being blocked is “scan” in “dps-scanner”. Use the fix here > https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/textrazor-downloader-403-error/#post-43081

[Gerben Dijkstra]

Thank you for the BPS Root Custom Code. I am trying to understand what this does. I don’t see a specific reference in that code to the “TextRazor Downloader” bot. So is it a generic code? Do I have to change it to work for “Usercentricsbot”?

[AITpro Admin]

The User Agent htaccess “security” rule is a nuisance rule. It is technically not a “security” rule to block hackers/spammers. So it is completely safe to comment out those nuisance rules in the htaccess code.

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