rjonessovos on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 403 Forbidden when updating a page"

I am trying to make a simple update to my page and every time I click the update button, this message comes up ...

"403 Forbidden

A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site, and has been blocked by Wordfence.

If you are an administrator and you are certain this is a false positive, you can automatically whitelist this request and repeat the same action.

I am certain this is a false positive.

Whitelist This Action"

I have clicked the checkbox indicating that I am certain this is a false positive and clicked the button that says "Whitelist This Action." Once the button is clicked the page says "All set! You can refresh the page to try this action again."

Once I refresh the page, the error continues to happen.

Is anyone else having this issue?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

Hello sstpierre,
If you go to Wordfence "Firewall" page does it say that the Firewall is
Enabled, Leaing or Disabled? Are you able to change any settings on this page?

It says it is Enabled. I've tried changing it to Leaing and when I do a box appears that says the changes have been saved. So I navigated off the plugin page and went back to the actual wordpress page to try and update it. The same error happened again. Then i went back to the Firewall page and it had reverted back to Enabled.

I am experiencing this same behavior. Note that I am on a windows server. I cannot disable the firewall. After updating last week (I think) it has been in leaing mode. Now it has switched to Enabled and cannot be disabled.

I get a 403 any time I try to update a post and the option to add to the whitelist does nothing.

I just got the same error waing, and was equally unsuccessful in whitelisting and getting past it. I was editing pages just fine last week so this is a new behaviour.

sstpierre and sookefinearts,
are you both also on Windows? We have a Windows related bug that causes this exact problem. We do not officially support Windows but due to particular high demand for this issue we have made an exception and we have a fix coming for this in the next release of Wordfence.

Thank you very much for creating a fix. Do you have a timetable for your next release?