This shell command can be used on cPanel servers and does the following:
\n– Scans all access log files for IP addresses which sent a POST request to all wp-login.php files on all domains\/subdomains\/addon domains on the server during the last 24 hours
\n– It groups and sorts all the IP addresses, based on the number of POST requests they sent<\/p>\n
So if you see that an IP address has sent an abnormal number of POST requests to wp-login.php files, you can ban it from your firewall. From our experience and stats, a normal number of POST requests to wp-login.php files from a single IP address is 4-5 per day. Anything above 15 is suspicious.<\/p>\n
grep -R “wp-login.php” \/usr\/local\/apache\/domlogs\/* | grep “POST” | awk -F: ‘{ print $2 }’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This shell command can be used on cPanel servers and does the following: – Scans all access log files for IP addresses which sent a POST request to all wp-login.php files on all domains\/subdomains\/addon domains on the server during the last 24 hours – It groups and sorts all the IP addresses, based on the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}