{"id":18924128,"date":"2026-05-31T02:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/finally-have-visibility-into-what-my-rest-api-is-actually-exposing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:57:49","slug":"finally-have-visibility-into-what-my-rest-api-is-actually-exposing","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/finally-have-visibility-into-what-my-rest-api-is-actually-exposing\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally have visibility into what my REST API is actually exposing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Been running WordPress sites for clients for years and honestly never thought much about the REST API until one of them got scraped through an exposed user endpoint. Started looking for something that gave me actual control and landed here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does exactly what I needed. Seeing all registered routes grouped by namespace in one place was a bit of an eye openerm you realize pretty quickly how much surface area a typical WP install has. The security log is a nice bonus too, quiet but useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satisfied with the free version for now, unsure yet of grabbing pro for the rate limiting on a higher traffic project I&#8217;m working on. Hopefully I won&#8217;t need to but looks tempting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PS &#8211; sent a couple of feature suggestions to the dev, waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18924128","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-api","topic-tag-endpoint","topic-tag-firewall"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18924128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18924128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18924130,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18924128\/revisions\/18924130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18924128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}