{"id":1048,"date":"2019-02-06T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T03:39:54","slug":"modsec-rule-to-stop-xmlrpc-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/06\/modsec-rule-to-stop-xmlrpc-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"modsec rule to stop xmlrpc attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of attacks are made towards\u00a0<strong>WordPress XML-RPC<\/strong>\u00a0(xmlrpc.php), which can cause a slowdown in the server. Below is the modsec rule to stop xmlrpc attack:<\/p>\n<p><code>#Block requests to xmlrpc.php with no referring URL<br \/>\nSecRule REQUEST_METHOD \"POST\" \"deny,status:401,id:5000900,chain,msg:'xmlrpc request blocked, no referer'\"<br \/>\nSecRule &amp;HTTP_REFERER \"@eq 0\" \"chain\"<br \/>\nSecRule REQUEST_URI \"xmlrpc.php\"<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of attacks are made towards\u00a0WordPress XML-RPC\u00a0(xmlrpc.php), which can cause a slowdown in the server. Below is the modsec rule to stop xmlrpc attack: #Block requests to xmlrpc.php with no referring URL SecRule REQUEST_METHOD &#8220;POST&#8221; &#8220;deny,status:401,id:5000900,chain,msg:&#8217;xmlrpc request blocked, no referer'&#8221; SecRule &amp;HTTP_REFERER &#8220;@eq 0&#8221; &#8220;chain&#8221; SecRule REQUEST_URI &#8220;xmlrpc.php&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}