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#29380 404 Shield

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Latest post by tampe125 on Thursday, 15 March 2018 03:27 CDT

Thursday, 15 March 2018 03:11 CDT

gccgnci
Hi,

We have received over 50 Email notifications about 404 Shield. How do I fix all of the 404 pages on our site?

Where I can see all about 404 Shield records in AdminTools?

Regards

Thursday, 15 March 2018 03:27 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

pages reported with the 404 Shield feature should not fixed: the main purpose of this feature is to block suspicious requests.
Let me explain that: you have a Joomla website and a user is trying to access your WordPress administrator area. That's something unusual, right?
Joomla throws a 404 error since the page is not found (of course!), but indeed that's something concerning. Why a legit user is trying to access the WordPress admin area, when you're clearly a Joomla website? This is something we have to log and, if the user is trying to do more nasty stuff, we have to ban him.

You can review all the blocked URLs inside the Security Exception log, simply filter for the 404 Shield feature.
If you want to know which pages are currently tracked and blocked, please take a look inside the Configure WAF page.

Davide Tampellini

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