User Insights Plugin being blocked – 403 error

[Arnab]

Hi,

I recently installed the ‘User Insights’ plugin and found that it is being blocked by BPS. Can someone have a look at the error description below and suggest how I could potentially whitelist this plugin and all its requests?

Thanks,
Arnab

Error code from the BPS Error log –

[403 GET Request: February 10, 2018 11:43 pm]
BPS: 2.9
WP: 4.9.4
Event Code: WPADMIN-SBR
Solution: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/security-log-event-codes/
REMOTE_ADDR: 72.141.251.146
Host Name: CPEf0f24907e413-CMf0f24907e410.cpe.net.fido.ca
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
HTTP_CLIENT_IP: 
HTTP_FORWARDED: 
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 
HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: 
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_REFERER: http://peersway.com/app/wp-admin/admin.php?page=users_insights
REQUEST_URI: /app/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=usin_get_users&filters=%5B%7B%22by%22:%22bxp_16%22,%22condition%22:%22Norway%22,%22type%22:%22select%22,%22operator%22:%22is%22%7D%5D&nonce=70bfd2f982&order=DESC&orderby=last_seen&page=1&users_per_page=20
QUERY_STRING: action=usin_get_users&filters=%5B%7B%22by%22:%22bxp_16%22,%22condition%22:%22Norway%22,%22type%22:%22select%22,%22operator%22:%22is%22%7D%5D&nonce=70bfd2f982&order=DESC&orderby=last_seen&page=1&users_per_page=20
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

[AITpro Admin]

There are 2 things that are being blocked.  %22select matches a pattern in the primary SQL Injection filter security rule.  An admin-ajax.php file skip/bypass rule is needed.  Do these steps below to fix the issue.  Note: Step #3 is duplicated and can be done after copying and pasting both step #1’s to Custom Code in the fixes below.

wp-admin admin-ajax.php skip/bypass rule solution:
1. Copy the wp-admin htaccess code below into this BPS wp-admin Custom Code text box: 3. CUSTOM CODE WPADMIN PLUGIN/FILE SKIP RULES
2. Click the save wp-admin Custom Code button.
3. Go to the Security Modes page and click the wp-admin folder BulletProof Mode Activate button.

# admin-ajax.php skip/bypass rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (admin-ajax\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule . - [S=2]

wp-admin SQL Injection rule modification solution:
1. Copy the modified wp-admin BPS Query String Exploits code below to this BPS wp-admin Custom Code text box: 4. CUSTOM CODE BPSQSE-check BPS QUERY STRING EXPLOITS AND FILTERS
2. Click the save wp-admin Custom Code button.
3. Go to the Security Modes page and click the wp-admin folder BulletProof Mode Activate button.

# BEGIN BPSQSE-check BPS QUERY STRING EXPLOITS AND FILTERS
# WORDPRESS WILL BREAK IF ALL THE BPSQSE FILTERS ARE DELETED
# Use BPS wp-admin Custom Code to modify/edit/change this code and to save it permanently.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|HTTrack|clshttp|archiver|loader|email|harvest|extract|grab|miner) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (\?|\*|%2a)+(%20+|\\s+|%20+\\s+|\\s+%20+|\\s+%20+\\s+)(http|https)(:/|/) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} etc/passwd [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} cgi-bin [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (%0A|%0D) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} owssvr\.dll [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.opendirviewer\. [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} users\.skynet\.be.* [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=(http|https):// [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=(\.\.//?)+ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=/([a-z0-9_.]//?)+ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=PHP[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12} [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\.\./|%2e%2e%2f|%2e%2e/|\.\.%2f|%2e\.%2f|%2e\./|\.%2e%2f|\.%2e/) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp\: [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (http|https)\: [NC,OR] 
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=\|w\| [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)/self/(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)cPath=(http|https)://(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*iframe.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^i]*i)+frame.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR] 
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_(en|de)code[^(]*\([^)]*\) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\(|\)|<|>).* [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (NULL|OUTFILE|LOAD_FILE) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\.{1,}/)+(motd|etc|bin) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (localhost|loopback|127\.0\.0\.1) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|>|'|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} concat[^\(]*\( [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^a]*a)+ll([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (;|<|>|'|"|\)|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00).*(/\*|union|select|insert|drop|delete|update|cast|create|char|convert|alter|declare|order|script|set|md5|benchmark|encode) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (sp_executesql) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]
# END BPSQSE-check BPS QUERY STRING EXPLOITS AND FILTERS

[Arnab]

Thanks. Your code fixed the issue 🙂

[AITpro Admin]

Great!  Thanks for confirming the fix worked. 😉

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