WP fail2ban Manual

WP fail2ban is a WordPress plugin to write a myriad of events to syslog for integration with fail2ban.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. History
  • 1.2. Features
    • 1.2.1. CloudFlare and Proxy Servers
    • 1.2.2. Comments
    • 1.2.3. Pingbacks
    • 1.2.4. Spam
    • 1.2.5. User Enumeration
    • 1.2.6. Work-Arounds for Broken syslogd
    • 1.2.7. Blocking Users
    • 1.2.8. mu-plugins Support
• 2. Configuration
  • 2.1. fail2ban
    • 2.1.1. Filters
    • 2.1.2. wordpress-hard.conf and wordpress-soft.conf
  • 2.2. mu-plugins Support

Reference

• define() Constants
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_AUTH_LOG
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_BLOCK_USER_ENUMERATION
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_BLOCKED_USERS
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_COMMENT_LOG
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_HTTP_HOST
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_COMMENTS
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_PASSWORD_REQUEST
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_PINGBACKS
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_SPAM
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_OPENLOG_OPTIONS
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_PINGBACK_LOG
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_PROXIES
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_REMOTE_ADDR
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_SYSLOG_SHORT_TAG
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_TRUNCATE_HOST
  • WP_FAIL2BAN_XMLRPC_LOG
• Filters
  • wordpress-hard.conf
  • wordpress-soft.conf
• Unit Tests
  • Results