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Disable XML-RPC Pingback

Description

Stops abuse of your site’s XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.

This is more friendly than disabling totally XML-RPC, that it’s needed by some plugins and apps (I.e. Mobile apps or some Jetpack’s modules).

  • The original one.
  • Simple and effective.
  • No marketing buzz.
  • Maintained and updated when needed since 2014.
  • 100% compliant with WordPress coding standards which makes it fail safe.
  • 60,000+ active installations can’t be wrong.

If you’re happy with the plugin please don’t forget to give it a good rating, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).

Features

Removes the following methods from XML-RPC interface.

  • pingback.ping
  • pingback.extensions.getPingbacks
  • X-Pingback from HTTP headers. This will hopefully stops some bots from trying to hit your xmlrpc.php file.

Requirements

  • WordPress 3.8.1 or higher.

Installation

  • Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation (or install it directly from your dashboard) and then activate the plugin from Plugins page.
  • There’s not options page, simply install and activate.

Reviews

The plugin author is still actively engaged with this excellently useful plugin. It receives updates only when needed which might be years in between updates. Still works great! Highly recommend.
There is better option than this plugin. I have used disable xmlrpc api and its works fine for me.
This broke my site, I had to revert to a backup on the server after installing it.
Gran trabajo Samuel, en combinación con algunas reglas de htaccess hace un trabajo fantástico.
Thank you for this free and great plugin.
Does what it says and this is what needed for a XMLRPC attacks. Thanks.
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Contributors & Developers

“Disable XML-RPC Pingback” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.2.2

  • Improved WP version checking to avoid a notice under certain versions of WP.

1.2.1

  • Minor changes to make code 100% compliant with WordPress Coding Standards.

1.2

  • Added support for X-Pingback header removal in recent versions of WP.

1.1

  • Added code to remove X-Pingback from HTTP headers as suggested by user https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-x-pingback-http-header

1.0

  • Initial release.

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