{"id":4358,"date":"2019-11-09T02:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2019-11-09T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T02:33:44","slug":"xmlrpc-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wordpress\/xmlrpc-php","title":{"rendered":"xmlrpc.php"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently in the server logs I saw lots of attempts to \/xmlrpc.php<\/p><p>\/xmlrpc.php is the file used for Pingbacks, so if someone links to my blog , they can add my blog article and WordPress will check in then create a link to the users site. This actually opens up wordpress sites to be used for DOS&#8217; people<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustwave.com\/en-us\/resources\/blogs\/spiderlabs-blog\/wordpress-xml-rpc-pingback-vulnerability-analysis\/\">https:\/\/www.trustwave.com\/en-us\/resources\/blogs\/spiderlabs-blog\/wordpress-xml-rpc-pingback-vulnerability-analysis\/<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>You can disable access to this file via updating .htaccess<\/p><p># Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests<br \/>&lt;Files xmlrpc.php&gt;<br \/>order deny,allow<br \/>deny from all<br \/>&lt;\/Files&gt;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently in the server logs I saw lots of attempts to \/xmlrpc.php\/xmlrpc.php is the file used for Pingbacks, so if someone links to my blog , they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[3081,1130,3080],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-dos","tag-wordpress","tag-xmlrpc-php"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}