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#20033 Admin Tools Blocking Users IP

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:00 CDT

user69672
 I have a social networking website on which Admin tools detect and report dozens of security exceptions due to all the reasons the tools are designed for including ipwl, Admin IP Whitelist, and CSRF Shield everyday.

The down side is that for some reason the Admin tools is blocking the IP addresses of people who regularly log on the site for blogs, articles or images posts (note that most of these people work for me as the site is new and has a low number of visitors). I am able to delete these users' IP addresses from the blocked list and add them to the firewall's IP Whitelist.

However, my concern is that there are some false negatives that trigger these IP block and could be blocking my site's visitiors IP even-though some of these visitors are not the bad guys.
Is there anything I can do to make sure that the Admin tools are blocking the IP addresses of the bad guys?

Thanks

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello Oscar,

first of all we need to know the reason of the block.
In the log page, you will find the reason and the attacked URL. Can you please post them here?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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user69672
Hi Davide,
Please see attached the security breach log from my site.

user69672
Davide,
Sorry, the attachment of the log files didn't work the first time. I am resending them again.
Please see them here attached

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Regarding the CSRF, Admin Tools injects an hidden field inside ever form, then, after submitting it, it checks if the field is not present inside the request.
Since it's an hidden field, only a bot scanning the HTML source can fill it, so the request is blocked.
However, I think something "strange" is happening to the page, most likely the extension you are using modifies the form before submitting.
I suggest you to create an exception for that component, so you can turn off WAF only for that extension.

Regarding the IP whitelist, when an user gets banned (and he shouldn't) it means that his IP changed.
You can only turn off this feature, since your users have dynamic IPs that change quite frequently.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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