Title: block xml-rpc brute force attacks?
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# block xml-rpc brute force attacks?

 *  Resolved [Liew Cheon-Fong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/)
 * (@lcf)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-xml-rpc-brute-force-attacks/)
 * Does the plugin log XML-RPC attacks by default? If not, how to enable it? Thank
   you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/)

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 *  Plugin Author [invisnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/invisnet/)
 * (@invisnet)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-xml-rpc-brute-force-attacks/#post-7620049)
 * Yes, it does, and it both logs and blocks multicall attacks.

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