[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fE2fm3DYRiSB8kaLbrCxprEZtI5oho9p54lUZqDURfbA":3},{"slug":4,"name":5,"version":6,"author":7,"author_profile":8,"description":9,"short_description":10,"active_installs":11,"downloaded":12,"rating":13,"num_ratings":14,"last_updated":15,"tested_up_to":16,"requires_at_least":17,"requires_php":18,"tags":19,"homepage":25,"download_link":26,"security_score":27,"vuln_count":28,"unpatched_count":28,"last_vuln_date":29,"fetched_at":30,"vulnerabilities":31,"developer":32,"crawl_stats":29,"alternatives":39,"analysis":140,"fingerprints":185},"remove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping","Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback","1.6","cleverplugins","https:\u002F\u002Fprofiles.wordpress.org\u002Fcleverplugins\u002F","\u003Cp>Prevent your WordPress site from participating and being a victim of pingback denial of service attacks. \u003Cstrong>After activation the plugin automatically disables XML-RPC. There’s no need to configure anything.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By disabling the XML-RPC pingback you’ll:\u003Cbr \u002F>\n* lower your server CPU usage\u003Cbr \u002F>\n* prevent malicious scripts from using your site to run pingback denial of service attacks\u003Cbr \u002F>\n* prevent malicious scripts to run denial of service attacks on your site via pingback\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From sucuri.net:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cp>Any WordPress site with Pingback enabled (which is on by default) can be used in DDOS attacks against other sites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Ch4>Learn More\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwptavern.com\u002Fhow-to-prevent-wordpress-from-participating-in-pingback-denial-of-service-attacks\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">How To Prevent WordPress From Participating In Pingback Denial of Service Attacks\u003C\u002Fa> – wptavern.com\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.sucuri.net\u002F2014\u002F03\u002Fmore-than-162000-wordpress-sites-used-for-distributed-denial-of-service-attack.html\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack\u003C\u002Fa> – sucuri.net\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fhackguard.com\u002Fxmlrpc-php-ping-backs-hackers-denial-service-attacks\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">xmlrpc.php and Pingbacks and Denial of Service Attacks, Oh My!\u003C\u002Fa> – hackguard.com\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch4>Is Your Site Attacking Others?\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cp>Use \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Flabs.sucuri.net\u002F?is-my-wordpress-ddosing\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">Sucuri’s WordPress DDOS Scanner\u003C\u002Fa> to check if your site is DDOS’ing other websites\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch4>Why Not Just Disable XMLRPC Altogether?\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cp>Yes, you can choose to do that, but if you use popular plugins like JetPack (that use XMLRPC) then those plugins will stop working. That is why this small plugin exists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n","Prevent pingback, XML-RPC and denial of service DDOS attacks by disabling the XML-RPC pingback functionality.",9000,94267,60,6,"2023-07-24T23:03:00.000Z","6.3.8","5.2","5.6",[20,21,22,23,24],"disable-ping","ping","pingback","xml-rpc","xmlrpc","http:\u002F\u002Fwordpress.org\u002Fplugins\u002Fremove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping","https:\u002F\u002Fdownloads.wordpress.org\u002Fplugin\u002Fremove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping.1.6.zip",85,0,null,"2026-03-15T15:16:48.613Z",[],{"slug":7,"display_name":7,"profile_url":8,"plugin_count":33,"total_installs":34,"avg_security_score":35,"avg_patch_time_days":36,"trust_score":37,"computed_at":38},3,17000,82,269,66,"2026-04-04T02:41:24.091Z",[40,62,85,105,121],{"slug":41,"name":42,"version":43,"author":44,"author_profile":45,"description":46,"short_description":47,"active_installs":48,"downloaded":49,"rating":35,"num_ratings":50,"last_updated":51,"tested_up_to":52,"requires_at_least":53,"requires_php":54,"tags":55,"homepage":59,"download_link":60,"security_score":61,"vuln_count":28,"unpatched_count":28,"last_vuln_date":29,"fetched_at":30},"disable-xml-rpc-api","Disable XML-RPC-API","2.1.7","Amin Nazemi","https:\u002F\u002Fprofiles.wordpress.org\u002Faminnz\u002F","\u003Cp>Protect your website from xmlrpc brute-force attacks,DOS and DDOS attacks, this plugin disables the XML-RPC and trackbacks-pingbacks on your WordPress website.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>PLUGIN FEATURES\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr \u002F>\n(These are options you can enable or disable each one)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Disable access to xmlrpc.php file using .httacess file \u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Automatically change htaccess file permission to read-only (0444)\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable X-pingback to minimize CPU usage \u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable selected methods from XML-RPC\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Remove pingback-ping link from header\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable trackbacks and pingbacks to avoid spammers and hackers\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Rename XML-RPC slug to whatever you want\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Black list IPs for XML-RPC\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>White list IPs for XML-RPC\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Some options to speed-up your wordpress website\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable JSON REST API\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Hide WordPress Version\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable built-in WordPress file editor\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable wlw manifest\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>And some other options\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>What is XMLRPC\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>XML-RPC, or XML Remote Procedure Call is a protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.\u003Cbr \u002F>\nBeginning in WordPress 3.5, XML-RPC is enabled by default. Additionally, the option to disable\u002Fenable XML-RPC was removed. For various reasons, site owners may wish to disable this functionality. This plugin provides an easy way to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Why you should disable XML-RPC\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr \u002F>\n\u003Cem>Xmlrpc has two main weaknesses\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Brute force attacks:\u003Cbr \u002F>\nAttackers try to login to WordPress using xmlrpc.php with as many username\u002Fpassword combinations as they can enter. A method within xmlrpc.php allows the attacker to use a single command (system.multicall) to guess hundreds of passwords. Daniel Cid at Sucuri described it well in October 2015: “With only 3 or 4 HTTP requests, the attackers could try thousands of passwords, bypassing security tools that are designed to look and block brute force attempts.”\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Denial of Service Attacks via Pingback:\u003Cbr \u002F>\nBack in 2013, attackers sent Pingback requests through xmlrpc.php of approximately 2500 WordPress sites to “herd (these sites) into a voluntary botnet,” according to Gur Schatz at Incapsula. “This gives any attacker a virtually limitless set of IP addresses to Distribute a Denial of Service attack across a network of over 100 million WordPress sites, without having to compromise them.”\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n","A simple and lightweight plugin to disable XML-RPC API, X-Pingback and pingback-ping in WordPress 3.5+ for a faster and more secure website",100000,792973,42,"2026-02-04T06:54:00.000Z","6.9.4","5.0","",[56,57,22,58,24],"disable-xml-rpc","disable-xmlrpc","stop-brute-force-attacks","https:\u002F\u002Fneatma.com\u002Fdsxmlrpc-plugin\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fdownloads.wordpress.org\u002Fplugin\u002Fdisable-xml-rpc-api.zip",100,{"slug":63,"name":64,"version":65,"author":66,"author_profile":67,"description":68,"short_description":69,"active_installs":70,"downloaded":71,"rating":13,"num_ratings":72,"last_updated":73,"tested_up_to":74,"requires_at_least":75,"requires_php":54,"tags":76,"homepage":82,"download_link":83,"security_score":84,"vuln_count":28,"unpatched_count":28,"last_vuln_date":29,"fetched_at":30},"manage-xml-rpc","Manage XML-RPC","1.0.2","brainvireinfo","https:\u002F\u002Fprofiles.wordpress.org\u002Fbrainvireinfo\u002F","\u003Cp>You can now disable XML-RPC to avoid Brute force attack for given IPs or can even enable access for some IPs. XML-RPC on WordPress is actually an API that gives developers who build mobile apps, desktop apps and other services, the ability to talk to a WordPress site. The XML-RPC API that WordPress provides gives developers, a way to write applications (for you) that can do many of the things that you can do when logged into WordPress via the web interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch4>Features\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cp>Block XML-RPC by following way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Disable pingback.ping, pingback.extensions.getPingbacks and Unset X-Pingback from HTTP headers, that will block bots to access specified method.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Disable\u002FBlock XML-RPC for all users.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n","Enable\u002FDisable XML-RPC for all or based on IP list, also you can control pingback and Unset X-Pingback from HTTP headers.",6000,64108,4,"2024-12-02T07:10:00.000Z","6.7.5","4.0",[77,78,79,80,81],"block-xml-rpc","brute-force-attacks","security","xml-rpc-pingback","xmlrpc-php-attack","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.brainvire.com","https:\u002F\u002Fdownloads.wordpress.org\u002Fplugin\u002Fmanage-xml-rpc.1.0.2.zip",92,{"slug":86,"name":87,"version":88,"author":89,"author_profile":90,"description":91,"short_description":92,"active_installs":93,"downloaded":94,"rating":95,"num_ratings":96,"last_updated":97,"tested_up_to":98,"requires_at_least":99,"requires_php":18,"tags":100,"homepage":54,"download_link":104,"security_score":61,"vuln_count":28,"unpatched_count":28,"last_vuln_date":29,"fetched_at":30},"disable-xml-rpc-pingback","Disable XML-RPC Pingback","1.2.2","Samuel Aguilera","https:\u002F\u002Fprofiles.wordpress.org\u002Fsamuelaguilera\u002F","\u003Cp>Stops abuse of your site’s XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is more friendly than disabling totally XML-RPC, that it’s needed by some plugins and apps (I.e. Mobile apps or some Jetpack’s modules).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>The original one.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Simple and effective.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>No marketing buzz.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Maintained and \u003Cstrong>updated when needed\u003C\u002Fstrong> since 2014.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>100% compliant with \u003Cstrong>WordPress coding standards\u003C\u002Fstrong> which makes it fail safe.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>60,000+ active installations\u003C\u002Fstrong> can’t be wrong.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>If you’re happy with the plugin \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwordpress.org\u002Fsupport\u002Fplugin\u002Fdisable-xml-rpc-pingback\u002Freviews\u002F?filter=5\" rel=\"ugc\">please don’t forget to give it a good rating\u003C\u002Fa>, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch4>Features\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\u003Cp>Removes the following methods from XML-RPC interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>pingback.ping\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>pingback.extensions.getPingbacks\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>X-Pingback from HTTP headers. 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