About this bot
VaultPress is an automated identity associated with Automattic and used for WordPress backup and security service operations.
Primary HTTP identity: VaultPress.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: verified-bot.
robots.txt is not a reliable access-control mechanism for this traffic.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: no.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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VaultPress
Details
- Kind
- Service client
- Family
- Jetpack / VaultPress
- Purpose
- Wordpress backup security
- Common Use
- WordPress backup, restore, synchronization, and security-related service requests for connected sites.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
Verification
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Match the `VaultPress` service identity and corroborate traffic with Jetpack/VaultPress connection, account, and current Automattic/Jetpack source context before allowlisting.
- Detection Notes
- VaultPress is now part of Jetpack’s backup/security offering. The `VaultPress` HTTP identity remains useful, but UA-only matching is not authentication.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt is not a reliable control for this identity. Use server-side access controls if restriction is required.- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "VaultPress" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "VaultPress") { set $bot_match 1; }