{"id":897,"date":"2020-06-04T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=897"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:41:56","slug":"what-is-modsecurity","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/what-is-modsecurity","title":{"rendered":"What is ModSecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ventraip.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/modsecurity1.png\" alt=\"ModSecurity - Protection Through Patterns | The VIPLounge\" width=\"506\" height=\"260\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>What is ModSecurity?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/modsecurity.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ModSecurity<\/a> is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects on web application layer that is the most targeted for a website.<\/p>\n<p>It provides protection over the webserver by looking for known malicious requests as well as monitoring outbound data and blocking information such as leakage of detailed error messages, social security numbers, or even credit card numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is ModSecurity? ModSecurity is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects on web application layer that is the most targeted for a website. It provides protection over the webserver by looking for known malicious requests as well as monitoring outbound data and blocking information such as leakage of detailed error messages, social security numbers, or even credit card numbers.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[34],"kbtag":[1582],"class_list":["post-897","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cpanel","kbtag-modsecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/897\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}