Admins locked out of WordPress by login blocking
Login blocking locks site owners, including admins with whitelisted IPs, out of their own WordPress dashboards.
8 public reports · first reported 25 October 2014 · last reported 24 April 2017
What's going wrong
Site owners using the Limit Attempts plugin report that its login protection sometimes locks them out of their own WordPress sites. Some find their IP listed as blacklisted despite being whitelisted, others get stuck on a login screen that keeps cycling, or see a block message right after logging in. The usual workaround described is renaming or deactivating the plugin through a hosting file manager or FTP. Reports come from single-site and multisite owners, including administrators. The opportunity is a recovery tool and safer lockout rules that never block trusted admins without a clear way back in.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Limit Attempts by BestWebSoft – WordPress Anti-Bot and Security Plugin for Login and Forms.
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Who has this problem
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