[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34401: Search mechanisms complaning of access denied error on wp-login.php?action=logout

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#34401: Search mechanisms complaning of access denied error on wp-
login.php?action=logout
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 Reporter:  rodrigosprimo  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General        |    Version:
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                 |
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 In one of my sites, Google Webmaster is complaining of access denied
 errors in thousands of variations of the wp-login.php?action=login URL
 (with different values for the _wpnonce param).

 Those pages are generated by _default_wp_die_handler() and this function
 doesn't include a noindex robots meta tag in the header. I'm assuming
 adding such meta tag is the best way to fix this issue. It seems
 reasonable to me to have noindex on error pages but I'm not sure if this
 is a good idea since this is not my area of expertise.

 I noticed that I'm not the only one having this issue:

 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-showing-login-access-denied
 https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/XnOFn2CgGyQ
 https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/webmaster-url-crawl-error-for-
 wordpress-wp-login-php-action-logout-_wpnonce.2219262/

 Thoughts?

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