The Silent Door Left Ajar: Why You Must Disable XML-RPC in WordPress Today
Most WordPress site owners obsess over strong passwords, two-factor authentication, and login page lockouts. Yet, on millions of servers, an old legacy protocol sits quietly in the background, listening for requests and letting automated bots hammer away at credentials without triggering standard security alerts: xmlrpc.php. Password attacks hitting XML-RPC occur at nearly the same rate […]