Firewall blocks legitimate users and staging logins
The MalCare firewall blocks real customers, staging logins and editors with Malicious Activities warnings, and whitelisting each IP by hand is not workable.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 7 November 2024 · last reported 16 April 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners running WordPress sites with the MalCare firewall report that it blocks real people, including customers from specific countries, editors trying to save posts and staging-site logins created by a backup tool.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.