From 921b78190912b3cd74cea62fc3e773c56e8f609e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:07:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Increase rate limit on protected paths (#6229)

Previously each protected path had a separate rate limit. Now they're all in the same bucket, so people are more likely to hit one with register->login. Increasing to 25 per 5 minutes should be fine.
---
 config/initializers/rack_attack.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/initializers/rack_attack.rb b/config/initializers/rack_attack.rb
index b38fb302b..b35452f04 100644
--- a/config/initializers/rack_attack.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/rack_attack.rb
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class Rack::Attack
     req.ip if req.api_request?
   end
 
-  throttle('protected_paths', limit: 5, period: 5.minutes) do |req|
+  throttle('protected_paths', limit: 25, period: 5.minutes) do |req|
     req.ip if req.post? && req.path =~ PROTECTED_PATHS_REGEX
   end
 
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