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Managed Rules

Cloudflare provides pre-configured managed rulesets that protect against web application exploits such as the following:

  • Zero-day vulnerabilities
  • Top-10 attack techniques
  • Use of stolen/leaked credentials
  • Extraction of sensitive data

Managed rulesets are regularly updated. Each rule has a default action that varies according to the severity of the rule. You can adjust the behavior of specific rules, choosing from several possible actions.

Rules of managed rulesets have associated tags (such as wordpress) that allow you to search for a specific group of rules and configure them in bulk.

Rulesets

By default, Cloudflare offers the following rulesets: