Website redirect to xmlrpc

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  • mra13

    (@mra13)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    If you enable the pingback vulnerability firewall in the settings of this plugin then it will add a rule in the .htaccess file to disable access to that fiel.

    I am not sure what you mean by redirection into cPanel though.

    Thread Starter mbnocx

    (@mbnocx)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the response mra13. Yes, this does appear to be something from this plugin.

    What I mean by the cPanel note is that when I login to my cPanel at my hosting company, go to ‘Addon Domains’ and look at the domain that my WP blog is installed on, it has a redirection to the following command/file/entry (whatever this is):

    /(.*)/xmlrpc\.php$

    I also went to cPanel, then to ‘Redirects’ and it shows that all of my domains have a 403 redirection going to this same string:

    /(.*)/xmlrpc\.php$

    I find this exact same string in my .htaccess file which leads me to believe this is all normal behavior. Since I was not sure, and I was a bit concerned my site and/or my cPanel login were hacked, I wanted to make sure.

    #AIOWPS_BASIC_HTACCESS_RULES_END
#AIOWPS_PINGBACK_HTACCESS_RULES_START
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 403 /(.*)/xmlrpc\.php$
</IfModule>
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