WAF

The Web Application Firewall (WAF) interface allows OpenPanel users to toggle Coraza WAF on or off for each domain individually.

Manage domain​

Clicking the Manage Rules button next to a domain opens the rule management page where you can disable individual rules for that domain.

Rules can be disabled by ID, in the Disabled IDs field (SecRuleRemoveById):

Or by tag name, in the Disabled Tags field (SecRuleRemoveByTag):

The OWASP Core Rule Set is enabled by default for all newly added domains.

WAF Logs​

WAF logs can be viewed by clicking the View Logs button for domain.

Reading the Logs​

Coraza logs all checked requests, not just blocked ones. The key columns are:

is_interrupted: whether the request was blocked. true means blocked. messages.rule_ids: the IDs of rules that fired, for example:

932370, 941100, 941160, 949110, 980170

These are the IDs you can paste into the Disabled IDs field for that domain. messages.tags — the tags associated with triggered rules, for example:

application-multi, language-shell, platform-windows, attack-rce, paranoia-level/1, OWASP_CRS, OWASP_CRS/ATTACK-RCE, capec/1000/152/248/88

When disabling by tag, use the attack category tags such as attack-rce or attack-xss. Avoid broad tags like OWASP_CRS or paranoia-level/1 as they would disable large portions of the ruleset. Disabling rules by tag removes them globally for the entire domain. For false positives on specific pages (e.g. /wp-admin), disabling by ID is the safer approach as it can be scoped more precisely.

messages.msg — the human-readable reason the rule fired, for example:

Remote Command Execution: Windows Command Injection