Prevent unwanted traffic incidents that might result in site outages and billing overages. WordPress plugin that blocks IP and bots categorized as harmful, resulting in heavy server loads from frequently crawled pages, or utilized in vulnerability/security breach scans.
Usage instructions for Integrating AbuseIPDb
- Obtain your free API key from AbuseIPDB ().
- Install and activate the plugin via your WordPress dashboard.
- Configure the plugin settings by adding your API key and setting threat thresholds.
Firewall
- Manually add an IP to be blocked
- Manually add Bots/User-Agents/Scrappers to prevent site visit
- Manually add an IP to be whitelisted on the login page
- Automatically block malicious traffic thru analysis on an hourly basis
- Automatically block excessive login attempts with configurable threshold
- Automatically block excessive visits from an incremented query that would bust the CDN cache
WP-CLI commands
Example
wp jam block 127.0.0.10
wp jam unblock 127.0.0.10
wp jam topip
Pantheon.io
Prevent traffic overages due to excessive visits from malicious traffic. The plugin can be used on sites hosted on Pantheon.io and no additional symlinks required.
Pantheon terminus command
terminus wp sitename.env -- jam block 127.0.0.1
terminus wp sitename.env -- jam unblock 127.0.0.1