Cloudflare won't stop checking if I'm human

Website, Application, Performance Security
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*What is the domain name?
escapefromtehran . com

Have you searched for an answer?
Yes.

Please share your search results url:

When you tested your domain, what were the results?
I don’t understand what you mean by testing my domain.

Describe the issue you are having:

Cloudflare keeps checking if I’m a human whenever I go to my website: escapefromtehran . com
It been happening over and over for about a week.
Sometimes, it happens in the middle of editing my site.
For example, I want to preview a new post I just created. Even for that, it wants to check if I’m human.
My coworker has same issue.
I checked using a VPS remote desktop from a US location and same issue.

What error message or number are you receiving?

I get the same

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

  1. I tried using a vpn. No change.
  2. I tried using a vps remote desktop. No change.
  3. I had other people check and they get the same result.

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?

Yes.

What are the steps to reproduce the error:

  1. Just go to my homepage: escapefromtehran . com

Have you tried from another browser and/or incognito mode?
Yes. on both Chrome and Firefox same result.
Incognito mode same result.

Please attach a screenshot of the error:
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Hi,

Go into your Cloudflare dashboard for your website, and click on the “Security tab” on the left, then go in to “Events”. You should see a list of recent events in the Activity Log. It will probably say “Managed Challenge”.

You can click on the event to see why Cloudflare served you a Managed Challenge. It could be a WAF rule you have made, or it could be your website’s Security Level you have configued under Security Settings

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@soldier_21 Hello, many thanks.
Turns out my account was in UNDER ATTACK mode, which of course I disabled.
I am sure I would not have turned this on myself.
Any guesses on what could have turned this on?
I don’t have any rulesets.
The SECURITY > EVENTS page is full of managed challenge events.
Events only go back 24 hours? There is nothing available for download.
Could I figure out what put my account in UNDER ATTACK if there was a way to go back a week when all this started?
Again many thanks for your help. I need to LEARN cloudflare badly.

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You can use the audit log to look back to see when changes, such as turning on under attack mode, were made.

In a free account, you can go back 2 weeks for firewall events, although you can only show 24 hours at a time.

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