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Configure rate limiting on your login page and contact forms

30-45 min Impact: high Effort: medium ✓ Manual completion

Rate limiting restricts how many requests a single visitor can make to sensitive endpoints like your login page or contact form within a given time window, directly preventing brute-force login attempts and form-spam bots without affecting normal human usage.

Without rate limiting, an attacker can attempt thousands of login combinations per minute, or a bot can flood your contact form, both real problems that a simple rate limit closes almost entirely.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Identify your sensitive endpoints
    Login pages, password reset forms, contact forms, anything an automated script could abuse at volume.
  2. 2
    Set a reasonable rate limit for each
    A real human rarely needs more than a handful of attempts in a short window, set limits that block automation without frustrating genuine users.
  3. 3
    Configure at the WAF, CDN, or application level
    Most WAFs and hosts support this natively, or it can be implemented directly in application code.
  4. 4
    Test the limit does not block normal use
    Confirm a genuine user working through a form or a few login attempts is not incorrectly blocked.

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How you will know it is done

Rate limiting is active on your login page and contact forms, confirmed not to interfere with normal use.

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