Brizy using many data requests

Kieran Harrod

• October 03, 2021 08:13

Hello,

I don't know if this is the correct place but Brizy has been significant numbers of data requests, enough to break my service. They all look like this:

35.214.15.59 logocurio.us - [03/Oct/2021:01:37:10 +0000] "GET /?brizy_media=199&brizy_crop=iW%3D373%26iH%3D373%26oX%3D0%26oY%3D46%26cW%3D373%26cH%3D280&brizy_post=157 HTTP/2.0" 504 89596 "https://logocurio.us/?brizy_media=176&brizy_crop=iW%3D1068%26iH%3D280%26oX%3D347%26oY%3D0%26cW%3D373%26cH%3D280&brizy_post=174" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot/7~bl; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)" | TLSv1.3 | 111.859 111.860 111.860 MISS 0 NC:000000 UP:SKIP_CACHE_EXPIRED

35.214.15.59 logocurio.us - [03/Oct/2021:01:37:10 +0000] "GET /?brizy_media=176&brizy_crop=iW%3D1068%26iH%3D280%26oX%3D347%26oY%3D0%26cW%3D373%26cH%3D280&brizy_post=174 HTTP/2.0" 200 0 "https://logocurio.us/?brizy_media=176&brizy_crop=iW%3D1068%26iH%3D280%26oX%3D347%26oY%3D0%26cW%3D373%26cH%3D280&brizy_post=174" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot/7~bl; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)" | TLSv1.3 | 121.145 121.145 121.146 MISS 0 NC:000000 UP:SKIP_CACHE_SET_COOKIE

I've had to take the site down. I've updated the standard Brizy plugin since I managed to get things back online (only at my IP). Any clue what this may be, or why SemrushBot is involved or why it's only happened in the last 2 days (where I made 0 changes to the site architecture or plugins etc - though I did make some visual edits on Friday).

I could do with sorting this so I can get the hosts to enable the site to the public again.

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  Mihail Stremenovskii

  • October 04, 2021 07:50

  Hello

  Please make sure that you are using the latest Brizy plugin versions, which are 2.3.17 for Brizy free and 2.3.13 for Brizy Pro.

  Try to fully reinstall plugins (deactivate, remove, install again)

  Clear the website cache and check your page again. Disable all cache plugins if you have it.

  After it, go to Settings --> Permalinks and push the save button. In general WordPress settings, I mean.

  Let me know the results.

  Kind regards,

  Mihail

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  Kieran Harrod

  • October 04, 2021 08:19

  Thanks Mihail. I have updated both, I’ll get it back up when I can.

  It would be good to understand how this could have happened though. I made 0 changes to any code, plug-ins or settings on the host between the days when this didn’t happen and those when it did. I don’t think I’ve ever used any SemRush service on this site, certainly not recently or for any time in memory.

  The only thing I did on Friday was post a new article, in Wordpess classic editor with an embed from TikTok. Seems an unlikely suspect.

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  Kieran Harrod

  • October 04, 2021 11:40

  I've switch this back on fully at logocurio.us. I've made the following changes:

  Brizy update to latest  (by 1 step from 2.3.16 to 2.3.17)

  Brizy Pro update to latest  (by 1 step from 2.3.12 to 2.3.13)

  robots.txt to disallow SEMRush bots

  UnPublished blog post on Friday that included a tikToc embed (just in case).

   

  It looks to still be using lots of executions (6200 in under an hour) when normally it runs no more than 1000 a day.
  
  I've created a login, what's the best, none public way to share it?

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  Kieran Harrod

  • October 04, 2021 15:43

  OK, it looks like blocking SEMrush bots has worked. Requests have tailed off massively. I republished my post with the tiktok and it's still OK.
  
  There are a large number of hits related to Brizy (despite not doing much on the site, ie not building pages with Brizy), 174 some hours. Is this usual? I'd love to work out what this was, it seems quite a glitch.

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  Mihail Stremenovskii

  • October 05, 2021 09:21

  Hello Kieran.

  Thank you for getting back with good news. 

  Regarding your question, a lot of cases are individual, so no, this is not usual. Not always the Brizy is the reason for issues.

  Kind regards,

  Mihail

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