WP xmlrpc attack

[prupert]

If you are enduring high load because of stacked up httpd-processes due to attacks on xmlrpc.php (unrelated to HIDS processing) add the following to the .htaccess:

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<Files xmlrpc.php>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

This helps to mitigate the load caused by many HTTP requests from a distributed attack on xmlrpc.php.