feat(waf): edge brute-force throttle for wp-login.php
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The generic rate-limits are tuned high for media-heavy sites, so slow
credential-stuffing on wp-login.php slips under them. Add a dedicated sc1
stick-table (backend wp_bruteforce, 60s window) that counts POSTs to
wp-login.php per real client IP and tarpits once an IP exceeds 30/min.

Only login POSTs are counted (browsing + the login form GET + a legit user's
few attempts are unaffected); an offending IP can still browse, just not keep
hammering login. Honors the existing whitelist (RFC1918 / trusted_ips.list /
trusted_ips.map) and the already-resolved CF/proxy real IP. path_end also
covers subdirectory WP installs. Stops attacks at the edge before they reach
PHP/WordPress, on all edges regardless of Coraza mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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stats uri /stats
stats refresh 30s
stats show-legends
stats show-node
stats show-node
# Dedicated stick-table for WordPress wp-login.php brute-force tracking.
# Tracked via track-sc1 from the `web` frontend (hap_listener.tpl); counts only
# login POSTs per real client IP over a 60s window. Separate from the generic
# sc0 connection/rate table so the login-attempt threshold is independent of
# the (much higher) flood thresholds.
backend wp_bruteforce
stick-table type ip size 100k expire 30m store http_req_rate(60s)