The JSON API will allow for the enumeration of authors (and usernames) for a WordPress site. You can’t turn that off. To protect yourself you should: Use strong passwords (you’re already doing that) Leverage two-factor authentication (either with the community-developed Two-Factor or using WordFence’s own support) Leverage a plugin like Jetpack that also supports brute … Read more
is partly wrong in every WordPress .Htaccess hardening article I’ve seen. Unfortunately it is very common for Apache config/regex code snippets to be blindly copy/pasted and errors do propagate. Unless there is some obscure vulnerability we are not aware of then I would bet that that is what has happened here. (Although matching “too much” … Read more
Code Snippets security when selecting “only run on front end”
nonce_user_logged_out to assign guests unique nonces breaks ajax calls
Custom true nonce in conjunction with WP nonce in PWA
If you look at the source of admin-ajax.php, the answer becomes clearer: $action = $_REQUEST[‘action’]; if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { // If no action is registered, return a Bad Request response. if ( ! has_action( “wp_ajax_{$action}” ) ) { wp_die( ‘0’, 400 ); } /** * Fires authenticated Ajax actions for logged-in users. * * … Read more
The problem with having a “hook” is that the add_action() function would not be defined that early so WordPress would have to be recoded so that the function is available much earlier. Also to use an action hook you would need to add your code inside a theme or a plugin. WordPress must make database … Read more
If you were in the process of making any changes when the bot came by, it may have picked up something bogus from the site. You can request a review in search console, I think they should either green-light it or tell you more specifics on what the problem is.
No commands are safe when ran as root. Even the help screens aren’t safe as root. The reason the –allow-root flag is considered dangerous is not because of what the CLI commands themselves do, but because your entire sites code is loaded when WP CLI runs, but now as root. This would mean any hidden … Read more
How to protect content from public users and limit access to certain roles in WordPress 2023?