Wordfence
- Member Since: May 13th, 2011
- Seattle, WA
- www.wordfence.com
- @mmaunder on WordPress.org, @markm on Slack
- Plugin Developer
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Posted a reply to Wordfence Open Source License, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi David, Wordfence is 100% GPL and is licensed under GPLv2. We will be including…6 months ago
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Posted a reply to WordFence creates a lot of database writes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Gwyneth. Thanks for taking the time share your thoughts with us. I want you…7 months ago
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Posted a reply to Malicious code in wfHits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Can you explain what you mean by "disabled your outbound ports"? That phrase could…8 months ago
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Posted a reply to Site Hacked, Japanese Characters Visible and Now Google Can’t Crawl Site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
And a further note: One of our team tried to fetch your site with a…8 months ago
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Posted a reply to Site Hacked, Japanese Characters Visible and Now Google Can’t Crawl Site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
One of my team just pointed out you probably meant the attacker made your site…8 months ago
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Posted a reply to Site Hacked, Japanese Characters Visible and Now Google Can’t Crawl Site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm sure you've already read this, but in case not, here's our guide on how…8 months ago
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Created a topic, Test post. Please ignore., on the site WordPress Support Forums
12 months ago
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Posted a reply to Wordfence reporting wordpress & other securityas malware, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Looks like mac is creating those files to store extended attributes. You might consider adjusting…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Zap scanner show sql injection in wp-login.php, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
It's quite difficult to find vulnerabilities in WordPress core these days. When the code base…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@papaburke One of our guys can check if it's compromised if you're interested and will…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
The web scan? That doesn't check much and can't examine site source code.1 year ago
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Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Is it possible your site has been compromised?1 year ago
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Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @papaburke, I'm with Wordfence - which is why this thread came to my attention.…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to WF 6.1.1 and HostGator, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Jonathan, Really great to see Hostgator helping out here. Thanks! Matt let me know…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Need clarification for Wordfence Web Application Firewall, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks Sue. That's right. If you only have a single WordPress installation this does not…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Wordfence failed to see brute force attack, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Steve, Can you please share the first three digits of the IP address. There…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to WF failed to block according to rule, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
You've misunderstood how the option"Count failures over what time period" works. Please see: https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#Count_failures_over_what_time_period Your…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Unable to download httaccess Falcon Engine and WPLM conflict, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, I suspect WPML are breaking functionality in other plugins by adding their own query…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to wpsiteguardian.com claims about wordfence, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
We have been asked to do product comparisons on the past and as tempting as…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Cross-Site Scripting - Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, The short answer is: We won't be providing this feature and no one else…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Guys, the nice thing about being volunteers is that we can choose when and where…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Looks like spyware to me, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Incorrect. The information you reference above is stored in your own database, not ours. We…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to wpsiteguardian.com claims about wordfence, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, These claims are false and the vendor is running an aggressive affiliate program promoting…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Modified plugin file: wp-content/plugins/wordfence/readme.txt, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@WPwebbouw Sounds like you have a different problem to the original poster who was referring…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@061375 I think your issue is unrelated to renaming readme.txt. @rklrkl You're an anonymous troll…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Reports same User hostname for MYSELF as for hackers, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@scotten Why don't you drop us an email at genbiz@wordfence.com and one of our guys…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Modified plugin file: wp-content/plugins/wordfence/readme.txt, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi All, To answer your question about whether we are not following our best practices:…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Reports same User hostname for MYSELF as for hackers, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, Matt asked me to reply here. The product you've mentioned is an affiliate scheme…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
/readme.html is a core WordPress file shipped with every release and Wordfence is tampering with…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to wordfence conspiracy, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hacking our own customers. That would be criminal. We obviously don't do this and are,…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Incidentally, the issue I updated on our side (internally) is numbered 567 in case you'd…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks for helping design Wordfence guys! That was a lot. Many good ideas here. I'm…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@themadproducer: Sorry I replied to the other poster first. Should have replied to you since…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@pingram3541: I was at the Suits & Spooks conference in Washington DC earlier this year…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Login Security options apparently not working?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @iltrev, Please post the first three digits of the IP address that is trying…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Maintenance release out, version 6.0.20, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@thenightrider, Yes this actually came up in our dev meeting today. I think what would…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Latest Update: Turning on settings that were uncheked, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @dmori, Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We've explained the issue here and how to…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Completely Unacceptable, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @EarShell, I've checked and "Block access to the rest of the site (outside the…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to I'm stuck out, I can not log in!, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Dalton, A fast way to regain access is to go into your WordPress site…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Completely Unacceptable, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks all, this kind of data is very valuable to us. Elise, sorry we doubted…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Maintenance release out, version 6.0.20, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks for the kind feedback. We welcome comments from the community and as I mentioned…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Completely Unacceptable, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Elise, Just wanted to reiterate what Tim said. The message you received is not…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Update to 6.0.19 fails "inconsistent file permissions", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, Yes apologies for the back-to-back releases. We needed to address an urgent issue. Regards,…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to 6.0.19 reset options, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey guys, Just echoing what Tim said. Sorry about the delay in posting here, we've…2 years ago
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Created a topic, Maintenance release out, version 6.0.20, on the site WordPress Support Forums
2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Latest update broke WordPress features, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, I'm not aware of any other reports of this since our update. Can you…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Maintenance Release 6.0.19 Failure, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Ben, Sounds like it might be file permissions on our site as the error…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Do you have a ticket system or something?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Yup, our premium support system is at support.wordfence.com and we have a great team that…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to theme-compat/404.php, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Steve, We have the higher sensitivity scan options because they often yield false positives.…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Using Falcon Engine with WordPress in subdirectory, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Michael, Thanks for the detailed report. We are aware of this issue. Falcon used…2 years ago
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