Answers.Body: <p>This error doesn't come from CiviCRM, but comes from either the Wordfence plugin for WordPress, or your hosting provider has <code>mod_security</code> configured in such a way that it breaks normal operation of CiviCRM.  I generally warn people away from shared hosting providers for this reason and toward a VPS unless they specifically know that CiviCRM is supported.  In theory, a good webhosting company will fix their settings - but bad shared webhosting companies are far more common than good ones!</p>
  
  <p>If you have Wordfence, see if disabling it fixes your problem.  If so, it may be worth exploring a bit further which Wordfence setting is causing the problem.  If you aren't running Wordfence, open a support ticket with your webhosting company.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I want to get a membership list contaitning their name and address through the 'Report' function. But when I do this, a message 'A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site' appears and cannot get the list' appears. What should I do? Thanks.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Welcome to SE! Could you supply more information. What version of Civi are you using, what CMS? Which report are you using? Have you tried others and do they work? At what stage in getting the report do you get the message?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Mick Kahn
Tags: <civireport>
Title: 'A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site' error
ThreadText: # 'A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site' error
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-23)
  
  I want to get a membership list contaitning their name and address through the 'Report' function. But when I do this, a message 'A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site' appears and cannot get the list' appears. What should I do? Thanks.
  
  **Tags:** civireport
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Welcome to SE! Could you supply more information. What version of Civi are you using, what CMS? Which report are you using? Have you tried others and do they work? At what stage in getting the report do you get the message?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-02-23. Score: 1
  
  This error doesn't come from CiviCRM, but comes from either the Wordfence plugin for WordPress, or your hosting provider has `mod_security` configured in such a way that it breaks normal operation of CiviCRM. I generally warn people away from shared hosting providers for this reason and toward a VPS unless they specifically know that CiviCRM is supported. In theory, a good webhosting company will fix their settings - but bad shared webhosting companies are far more common than good ones!
  
  If you have Wordfence, see if disabling it fixes your problem. If so, it may be worth exploring a bit further which Wordfence setting is causing the problem. If you aren't running Wordfence, open a support ticket with your webhosting company.
  
  
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