How to harden a Flask blog admin area with cookie configuration, CSRF checks, reauthentication, proxy trust boundaries, and repeatable validation for long-term production maintenance.
This article shows how to add practical audit logging to a Flask blog admin so login attempts, article publishing, site configuration changes, and automation calls remain traceable without turning your logs into a security risk.
A safer Flask blog setup separates login, upload, and publishing limits, restores the real client IP correctly, and keeps 413 and 429 behavior easy to diagnose in production.