diff --git a/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-wp-login.conf.j2 b/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-wp-login.conf.j2
index d0f9271098..1de31a3982 100644
--- a/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-wp-login.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-wp-login.conf.j2
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [Definition]
-failregex = ^<HOST> .* "POST .*wp-login\.php
+failregex = ^<HOST> .* "POST [^"]*wp-login\.php[^"]*" 200
diff --git a/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-xmlrpc.conf.j2 b/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-xmlrpc.conf.j2
index 6d8547146f..e5c01bb090 100644
--- a/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-xmlrpc.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/fail2ban/templates/filters/wordpress-xmlrpc.conf.j2
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [Definition]
-failregex = ^<HOST> .* "POST .*xmlrpc\.php
+failregex = ^<HOST> .* "POST [^"]*xmlrpc\.php[^"]*" 200