Title: XMLRPC.php attack
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# XMLRPC.php attack

 *  [mike.s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikes-1/)
 * (@mikes-1)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-attack/)
 * Hi
 * would this plugin stop a XMLRPC.php attack ?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-protection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-protection/)

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 *  Plugin Author [webvitaly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webvitaly/)
 * (@webvitaly)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-attack/#post-5544598)
 * Security-protection does not block block XMLRPC.php attacks.
 * If you need to block XMLRPC.php attack you can try [Anti-spam plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/).
   
   It blocks [trackback spam](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/faq/). You
   can read more about it in faq section.
 *  Thread Starter [mike.s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikes-1/)
 * (@mikes-1)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-attack/#post-5544599)
 * Hi
 * I already have that plugin installed… however i got an XMLRPC.php brute force
   attack earlier today which put high load on server… so not sure if that helped?
 *  Thread Starter [mike.s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikes-1/)
 * (@mikes-1)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-attack/#post-5544600)
 * I beleive this is the attack i was receiving – [http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/new-brute-force-attacks-exploiting-xmlrpc-in-wordpress.html](http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/new-brute-force-attacks-exploiting-xmlrpc-in-wordpress.html)

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 * Last reply from: [mike.s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikes-1/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-attack/#post-5544600)
 * Status: not resolved