Protect Your WordPress Website Against Malicious Login Attempts
Published on November 25, 2021
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Email Received
WordFence sent us an email today listing IP addresses sending out malicious login attempts to WordPress sites.
WA Site Support Ticket SubmittedBecause WA provides spam protection at the server level I submitted a Site Support Ticket asking if we should add these IP addresses to our Disallowed Comment Keys Section in the Settings Discussion Section of our WordPress Sites.
WA Site Support ResponseSite Support said we could add them to each of our websites for protection.
- Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
- Go to Settings --> Discussion --> Disallowed Comment Keys.
- Enter the following IP Addresses in the Disallowed Comment Keys Box. One address per line.
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