Feature request – block xmlrpc attacks

Attackers are abusing the XML-PRC “pingback” feature of WordPress blog sites to launch DDoS attacks on other sites: http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2014/03/wordpress-xml-rpc-pingback-vulnerability-analysis.html

How about logging xmlrcp.php requests, so we can set up a fail2ban jail if needed? Even if pingback/trackback are disabled, those attacks are causing server overloads.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/