Wordfence

Wordfence is assigned to the Phone-Home category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:

Wordfence

Plugin and CMS phone-home calls send telemetry, license or update data to their vendor servers. Not classic crawlers — but can show up in logs if proxied through your server.

In the BotScope dashboard you see for Wordfence: top paths, status distribution, byte volume and whether the user-agent signature stays stable over time or rotates.

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