{"id":1505,"date":"2020-06-07T21:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1505"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:44:43","slug":"why-am-i-getting-security-captcha-or-challenge-for-normal-administration-posts-submits","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/why-am-i-getting-security-captcha-or-challenge-for-normal-administration-posts-submits","title":{"rendered":"Why am I getting security captcha or challenge for normal administration posts\/submits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Why am I getting security captcha or challenge for normal administration posts\/submits?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you are systematically getting a challenge or security captcha page in the admin section of your site, chances are that you are a customer on a paid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cloudflare <\/a>plan\u00a0and the\u00a0Web Application Firewall (WAF)\u00a0comes into play. The solution is found in the Cloudflare\u00a0<strong>Firewall<\/strong>\u00a0app. Either:<\/p>\n<p>1. Turn the\u00a0<strong>Security Level<\/strong>\u00a0to a lower level under the\u00a0<strong>Settings\u00a0<\/strong>tab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Whitelist your IP(s) in the\u00a0<strong>IP Access Rules<\/strong>\u00a0found in the\u00a0<strong>Tools<\/strong>\u00a0tab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I getting security captcha or challenge for normal administration posts\/submits? If you are systematically getting a challenge or security captcha page in the admin section of your site, chances are that you are a customer on a paid Cloudflare plan\u00a0and the\u00a0Web Application Firewall (WAF)\u00a0comes into play. The solution is found in the Cloudflare\u00a0Firewall\u00a0app. Either: 1. Turn the\u00a0Security Level\u00a0to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1454,1453],"class_list":["post-1505","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-administration","kbtag-security-captcha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1505\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}