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Protecting ubuntu 14.04 server virtualmin websites against wordpress login attack bots
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # this script will install fail2ban and enable apache-wp-login rule | |
| # you will notice once it's done that fail2ban-client status shows apache-wp-login rule as active | |
| apt install fail2ban | |
| JAIL='' | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}[apache-wp-login]\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}enabled = true\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}port = http,https\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}filter = apache-wp-login\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}logpath = /var/log/virtualmin/*access_log\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}maxretry = 1\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}findtime = 36000\n" | |
| JAIL="${JAIL}bantime = 36000" | |
| printf "%b" "$JAIL" >> /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf | |
| RULE='' | |
| RULE="${RULE}\n" | |
| RULE="${RULE}[Definition]\n" | |
| RULE="${RULE}failregex = ^<HOST>.*/wp-login.php.*\n" | |
| RULE="${RULE}ignoreregex =" | |
| printf "%b" "$RULE" >> /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-wp-login.conf | |
| fail2ban-client reload | |
| fail2ban-client status |
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To run this script...
curl -o- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/acosonic/18fcc234a324c858d50d0a96d5748ab4/raw/ae7d0beaa64a33736220128ba92f11772045bee5/fail2ban_wp.sh | bashor
wget -qO- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/acosonic/18fcc234a324c858d50d0a96d5748ab4/raw/ae7d0beaa64a33736220128ba92f11772045bee5/fail2ban_wp.sh | bash