VaultPress is a bot in the webhook senders category, operated by Automattic.
VaultPress is a subscription service developed by Automattic, the company behind WordPress, that offers automated daily and real-time backups of WordPress websites onto WordPress.com's cloud servers. It is known for its ease of use, secure backups, and proactive security scanning.
Webhook senders call your endpoints to deliver events from payment, messaging and SaaS platforms. Blocking them breaks integrations. Allow them on the webhook paths they need and nowhere else.
VaultPress identifies itself with this user agent string:
VaultPressAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether VaultPress follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: VaultPress Disallow: /
User-agent: VaultPress Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: VaultPress Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: VaultPress Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: VaultPress group, VaultPress ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.VaultPress from VaultPress's user agent; check Automattic's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow VaultPress if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersVaultPress is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow VaultPress only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf VaultPress is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows VaultPress by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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VaultPress is a bot in the webhook senders category, operated by Automattic. VaultPress is a subscription service developed by Automattic, the company behind WordPress, that offers automated daily and real-time backups of WordPress websites onto WordPress.com's cloud servers. It is known for its ease of use, secure backups, and proactive security scanning.
We have not confirmed whether VaultPress follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: VaultPress" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "VaultPress" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so VaultPress may not follow it, and anyone can send VaultPress's user agent, so a fake VaultPress ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Webhook senders call your endpoints to deliver events from payment, messaging and SaaS platforms. Blocking them breaks integrations. Allow them on the webhook paths they need and nowhere else.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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