Re: WP xmlrpc attack
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:50 pm
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:
This helps to mitigate the load caused by many HTTP requests from a distributed attack on xmlrpc.php.
Code: Select all
<Files xmlrpc.php>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>