{"id":2171,"date":"2021-08-24T16:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.eu\/blog?p=2171"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:47:03","slug":"automatic-wordpress-login-security-by-recaptcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/automatic-wordpress-login-security-by-recaptcha","title":{"rendered":"Automatic WordPress login security by reCaptcha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Smarthost servers, security measures have been enabled to prevent brute-force attacks targeting WordPress. The security protects the wp-login.php address (login screen) and the xmrpc.php file (WordPress remote management). By enabling such security, a WordPress hack attempt will be interrupted by the need to enter reCaptcha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practice, it looks like a user who wants to log in to the panel and knows the login and password will do it without any problems, when entering the administration panel page, he will see a standard login field:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"434\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8.png 434w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>A person \/ robot who is entering random passwords after 10 unsuccessful attempts within 5 minutes will see a field with a request for verification:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-9.png 669w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-9-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-9-520x269.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Smarthost servers, security measures have been enabled to prevent brute-force attacks targeting WordPress. The security protects the wp-login.php address (login screen) and the xmrpc.php file (WordPress remote management). By enabling such security, a WordPress<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/automatic-wordpress-login-security-by-recaptcha\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,8,39],"tags":[209,63],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-functionalities","category-security","category-wordpress","tag-recaptcha","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}