Cloudflare Blocking Wordfence Scan

Website, Application, Performance Security
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Hi,

i have a problem happened without any changes from my side, Wordfence Scan was working perfect over a year & a few days suddenly scan stopped and gives me this error:
https://i.imgur.com/X6r3kAV.png

i refered to Wordfence support & they told me that Cloudflare blocking your Server IP & i have to make a rule in WAF to allow it & i did the following rules but still same problem:

https://i.imgur.com/HolO4O4.png
https://i.imgur.com/qh2wLkc.png
https://i.imgur.com/bGGeTdr.png

& scan works fine just after pausing Cloudflare

so what is the problem?

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Hi,

On your 4th link you forgot to redact the IP address. You can use the edit button and replace that image link.

When you run a scan and it is blocked, a WAF event should be logged. Please head to Dashboard > Security > Events, and check if there are requests being blocked that match your scan, then post back here a screenshot or the JSON for the event, that will help identify what’s at play.

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@cbrandt
THx for your reply & warning me, but can you tell me where is the edit button as i can’t see it any where.

Thank God the i fixed the issue as i found the server IP got denyed in .htaccess file which is strange as i never edit this file

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image

Check your history of plugin updates, some plugins will edit/update the .htaccess file.

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actually i dont have this edit button, maybe because my account is new ?

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That could be it, not sure. In any case, you can just delete the image from imgur and that should 404 any visitors.

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@cbrandt
Really Thx for your help :heart:

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