Unable to upload plugins from my desktop computer to my wordpress site. “Sorry, you have been blocked.”
Do you have the WAF enabled?
Yes. I have “Allow” on my local IP address.
I have a client site also experiencing this. Here is the exported event:
{
"action": "block",
"clientASNDescription": "ATT-INTERNET4",
"clientAsn": "7018",
"clientCountryName": "US",
"clientIP": "...",
"clientRequestHTTPHost": "...",
"clientRequestHTTPMethodName": "POST",
"clientRequestHTTPProtocol": "HTTP/2",
"clientRequestPath": "/wp-admin/update.php",
"clientRequestQuery": "?action=upload-plugin",
"datetime": "2022-12-14T19:19:49Z",
"rayName": "77994b18188096e9",
"ruleId": "d93f48eb05324adbb47f0d055969e60b",
"rulesetId": "efb7b8c949ac4650a09736fc376e9aee",
"source": "firewallManaged",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"matchIndex": 0,
"metadata": [
{
"key": "ruleset_version",
"value": "121"
},
{
"key": "version",
"value": "121"
},
{
"key": "type",
"value": "customer"
}
],
"sampleInterval": 1
}
The documentation makes it clear this cannot be bypassed:
You cannot bypass the new Cloudflare WAF, only its previous version (WAF managed rules).
Seems like this should affect a lot of WordPress sites.