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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 1340

wordpress security and xmlrpc.php

Looking through my site stats I'm noticing a bunch of hits on my wordpress/xmlrpc.php file. It's not from me afaik, do I need to worry about something here, is there anyway to secure this?

I'm running multiple wordpress sites on the same apache2, and it's only one of them that this is happening to.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1552

Answers (3)

ThePhi
ThePhi

Reputation: 2621

I've got also hits on this xmlrpc.php. But I'm not even on Wordpress! That's clearly hackers who try different addresses to gain access via this php page.

Upvotes: 0

Ronny Sherer
Ronny Sherer

Reputation: 8602

I installed "Windows Live Writer" on one of my very novice clients. It is good for posts. It is very simple and does a good job. It needs XML-RPC.

Upvotes: 0

windyjonas
windyjonas

Reputation: 2332

If you don't use the xmlrpc interface (pingbacks or blogging from external sources like android/iPhone), you can turn off this feature. Settings -> Writing -> XML-RPC

Upvotes: 2

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