Title: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden header on a failed login Author: atmosphear Published: March 23, 2016 Last modified: March 23, 2016 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed- login.svg) # HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden header on a failed login By [atmosphear](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atmosphear/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login.zip) * [Details](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login/#description) * [Reviews](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login/#reviews) * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login/) ## Description Send an “HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden” header on a failed login instead of “HTTP/1.1 200 OK”, which is the WordPress default header on failed login. This is a tremendously simple plugin that does only that and absolutely nothing else. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a way to allow external tools like fail2ban to get a message of a failed login e.g. to prevent a brute-force attack on a firewall level. For the public domain. Uses PHP5.3 anonymous functions and will not work on earlier versions of PHP ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b8c6d187d0e3dcfe2cab547135efef6de91afd8e40d90d0e538106e28877802f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very useful plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-plugin-852/)󠁿 [sojic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sojic/) October 9, 2019 This functionality should be default behavior, implemented in the core of WP. Integration with Fail2Ban significantly increase security and performance of WP. Must have plugin ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b1321b2e02b63734cd0d1453f195337503fb3838455a9a2e1a364b71c101b7dc? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Отлично](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%d0%be%d1%82%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%be-30/)󠁿 [Ramzzes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ramzzes/) March 29, 2017 Работает как заявлено, всё отлично. [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden header on a failed login” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ atmosphear ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atmosphear/) [Translate “HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden header on a failed login” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/http11-403-forbidden-header-on-a-failed-login) ### Interested in development? 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