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Disable XML-RPC Pingback

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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. This is more friendly than disabling totally XML-R

Version

1.2.2
Last updated

2021.05.30
Active installations

70000
WordPress Version

4.8
Tested up to

5.7.9
PHP Version

5.6
pa_languages

Arabic,,Dutch,,English,(South,Africa),,English,(UK),,English,(US),,Galician,,Hungarian,,Japanese,,Russian,,Spanish,(Argentina),,Spanish,(Mexico),,Spanish,(Spain),,Spanish,(Venezuela),,Swedish,,Ukrainian
Rating

4.00
Total ratings

14
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Description

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.

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).

  • The original one.
  • Simple and effective.
  • No marketing buzz.
  • Maintained and updated when needed since 2014.
  • 100% compliant with WordPress coding standards which makes it fail safe.
  • 70,000+ active installations can’t be wrong.

If you’re happy with the plugin please don’t forget to give it a good rating, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).

Features

Removes the following methods from XML-RPC interface.

  • pingback.ping
  • pingback.extensions.getPingbacks
  • X-Pingback from HTTP headers. This will hopefully stops some bots from trying to hit your xmlrpc.php file.

Requirements

  • WordPress 3.8.1 or higher.