Home / Plugin: WordPress Brute Force Protection - Stop Brute Force Attacks / Automatic Deactivation
Multiple times recently I have noticed this plugin is deactivating on its own. I’m sure there is another plugin or setting causing this issue, but I have no way to troubleshoot since it happens randomly. Is this common? What settings should I check? Any known plugin incompatibilities? Thank you
Thanks for getting in touch – this is a very unusual issue. We’ve not had any other reports of this so I agree it could be an incompatibility somewhere.
The only way I can think of troubleshooting the problem is to re-introduce your plugins one-by-one. i.e. deactivate/remove plugins so you have a clean install and then introduce them back slowly.
Better still, if you have access to another server you could do this without affecting your main site.
I hope that helps. Let me know how you get on.
I’ve discovered that it’s being deactivated by Really Simple SSL Pro with the following notice:
“This is the vulnerability overview. Here you will find current known vulnerabilities on your system.
GuardGiant Brute Force Protection – November 28, 2023 – medium severity”
However, no other information is given.
It’s also being flagged by WordFence:
Thanks for flagging this up. We will take a look.
This has now been patched so please update the plugin from your dashboard (if auto-update is not enabled).
Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
Of course! Thank you for your quick response.
