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403 Error With WordPress Stating You Are Blacklisted And You Can’t Login: Three Step Fix

Submitted by J. Pisano on December 6, 2007 – 2:14 amView Comments    



I was almost in a panic today when I got the following WordPress 403 Error:

Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures..

“Due to a real problem with a third party blacklist that Bad Behavior uses, users we’re sent a false positive and effectivley locked out of the WordPress account…”

THANKFULLY, the Bad Behavior people are on the ball and rectified this immediately.

You can download the patch and fine more about the issue here:

http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2007/12/06/bad-behavior-2011/

To fix your problem follow the following steps:

1. Get the patch from above and unzip it to your computer
2. FTP into the site where you are hosting WordPress
3. Copy the files contained in the patch over-top of your other Bad Behavior files in the wp-content/plugins folder

That’s it!  Try logging on again!

Best regards fellow WordPressers, Press on!

    

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  • Thanks for commenting guys! I am always happy to help if I can. I'm glad the fix was as easy for you as I said it was.

    Joe
  • Thanks Joseph, I thought the 403 was generated from my site host so I contacted them (who ended up finding your post). I had no idea it was an issue with a plugin, much less Bad Behavior, thanks!
  • Tony
    Thank you, I was in full panic mode tonight when I stumbled onto this post.
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