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  • #30488
    Greg
    Participant

    I have been unable to overcome a Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer security issue despite reading and applying advice from various topics herein. Could you please advise how I can overcome this problem. Thanks in advance! Details are as follows:

    [403 POST Request: August 1, 2016 - 10:51 pm]
    Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer
    Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden
    REMOTE_ADDR: 192.0.xx.xx
    Host Name: jobs5.misc.dca.vaultpress.com
    SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
    HTTP_CLIENT_IP:
    HTTP_FORWARDED:
    HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:
    HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP:
    REQUEST_METHOD: POST
    HTTP_REFERER: https://vaultpress.com
    REQUEST_URI: /wordpress/wp-load.php?vaultpress=true&action=plugins%3Als&doing_wp_cron=&wp-admin=&vector=14780856871.8185
    QUERY_STRING:
    HTTP_USER_AGENT: Automattic/VaultPress/0.1
    REQUEST BODY: --------------------------1ffcdea4b580ece2
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="full_list"
    
    1
    --------------------------1ffcdea4a580ece2
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="limit"
    
    50
    --------------------------1ffcdea4a580ece2
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="offset"
    
    0
    --------------------------1ffcdea4a580ece2
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="path"
    
    /
    --------------------------1ffcdea4a580ece2
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="sha1"
    
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    #30489
    AITpro Admin
    Keymaster

    I was able to replicate/reproduce this 403 error by remote posting to a test site that is using this BPS POST Attack Protection Bonus Custom Code:  http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/post-request-protection-post-attack-protection-post-request-blocker/  So I assume you are using the BPS POST Attack Protection Bonus Custom Code on your website.  To fix this issue I added additional whitelisting code to whitelist POST Requests to the wp-load.php file.

    1. Go to BPS Custom Code
    2. Click the Root htaccess File Custom Code accordion tab.
    3. Edit your existing POST Attack Protection custom code and add this additional code below to whitelist POST Requests made to the wp-load.php file.
    4. Click the Save Root Custom Code button.
    5. Go to the Security Modes page and click the Root folder BulletProof Mode Activate button.

    # NEVER COMMENT OUT THIS LINE OF CODE BELOW FOR ANY REASON
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/wp-load.php [NC]
    #30491
    Greg
    Participant

    Many thanks. Your solution worked perfectly!

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