Locked out of your WordPress blog?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 1:22 PM

If you are running WordPress and find yourself locked out of your own blog with an error message that reads like this:

Error 403
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /blog_directory/wp-login.php on this server.
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.
Your technical support key is: unique-key-number-here
You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.
If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact your-email-address and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

Do the following:

1. Please check to see if you have the Bad-Behaviour plug-in installed.
2. If you do update to version 2.0.11 immediately.

More information on this post.

If you are trying to leave a comment on a WordPress blog and get the above error message please direct the blog owner to the link above. Apologies to anyone who was locked out of Mentalacrobatics.

(Hehe for a minute there I thought I had been hacked/cracked/banned!)

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