Enhance Hosting Security For WordPress Sites Automatically With New Block XMLRPC Tool

If offering your clients impregnable hosting security for their WordPress websites without lifting a finger sounds great, you’re going to love Block XML-RPC … our newest weapon against XML-RPC attacks!

Block XML-RPC … find out what it means to me!

Since its inception, WordPress has allowed users to interact remotely with their sites using a built-in feature called XML-RPC. This is not only wonderful for smartphone users who want to blog on the go … but hackers too!

In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about XML-RPC and show you how to easily and automatically protect WordPress sites hosted with WPMU DEV from hackers exploiting XML-RPC vulnerabilities using our latest hosting security tool.

We’ll also show you how to protect WordPress sites hosted elsewhere.

Read on or click on a link below to skip the basics and get to the good stuff:

The Basics:

The Good Stuff:

Let’s jump right in …

What Is XML-RPC?

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol that uses XML to encode its calls

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