Title: .htaccess is writable
Last modified: April 25, 2021

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# .htaccess is writable

 *  Resolved [adcsi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adcsi/)
 * (@adcsi)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-is-writable/)
 * Is it intentional, and does it mean a security issue that while I have this plugin
   enabled, the .htaccess file has 755 permission instead of 444?
 * If I disable this plugin, the permission has to be set to 444 manually and it
   stays that way.

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 *  Plugin Author [Amin Nazemi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aminnz/)
 * (@aminnz)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-is-writable/#post-14371274)
 * Hello, This plugin is using .htaccess file to prevent access users to your “XMLRPC.
   php”.
    I will add some new features in the version, one of these features is 
   changing your .htaccess file permission automatically to (444) read-only.
 *  Thread Starter [adcsi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adcsi/)
 * (@adcsi)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-is-writable/#post-14373181)
 * Thank you for the information.
    So this means it’s intentional and there’s nothing
   to worry about.
 *  Plugin Author [Amin Nazemi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aminnz/)
 * (@aminnz)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-is-writable/#post-14373301)
 * Yes, it’s intentional and you don’t need to worry about it.
    Other plugins using
   simple action to disable your xmlrpc it’s causing resource usage when a request
   is sent to your xmlrpc.php resources like CPU and RAM uses on the server but “
   Disable XML-RPC-API” will not use any resources to block the requests.

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 * Last reply from: [Amin Nazemi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aminnz/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-is-writable/#post-14373301)
 * Status: resolved