URGENT – External Requests brought my site down

[aheadzen]

So we have a high traffic website and we are using KLEO theme. Everything is impressive except what I discovered today – Our site went down for 6-7 hours and after hours of digging I found that external requests are being made to this ip address – 104.236.235.186

This ip didn’t return anything during those 6-7 and looks like lots of requests jammed our website.

With some tricks and some luck I discovered it resolved to updates.seventhqueen.com and referenced from theme-functions.php file

For now I had to block all external requests using define(‘WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL’, true)

I request you to release an immediate update to make these external calls just once a day and also test for failed requests.

[Radu]

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