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WordPress

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Attach to wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php

I am receiving many requests to my wp-login.php and xmlrpc file, now I just set up an htaccess to prevent requests to xmlrpc, ...

May 29, 2022
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Programming, security

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Docker and securing passwords

I’ve been experimenting with Docker recently on building some services to play around with and one thing that keeps nagging me has been ...

May 29, 2022
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Programming, sql

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How can prepared statements protect from SQL injection attacks?

How do prepared statements help us prevent SQL injection attacks? Wikipedia says: Prepared statements are resilient against SQL injection, because parameter values, which ...

May 29, 2022
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PHP, Programming

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What is the best way to stop people hacking the PHP-based highscore table of a Flash game

I’m talking about an action game with no upper score limit and no way to verify the score on the server by replaying ...

May 28, 2022
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Nonce actions and names available via open source

I am using a plugin which makes its code publicly available. Therefore, anyone can see the $action and $name parameters used to generate ...

May 28, 2022
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Is it possible to reduce the minimum character length for passwords?

We’ve had a couple of complaints lately about how one of our sites requires the user’s password be at least 12 characters long, ...

May 28, 2022
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Questions about brute force attacks on the admin username, coming from amazon IP addresses

I’m a developer (not wordpress though) at a company. We use an EC2 instance to host our wordpress site. I don’t actually have ...

May 28, 2022
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Restrictive File Permissions

What are the most restrictive file permissions I should use if I do not intend to use any of WordPress’s auto updating functionality. ...

May 28, 2022
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Blocking access to wp-login via htaccess not working

Some time ago I installed the Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin and it’s working fine. However because I was getting SO many unauthorized ...

May 28, 2022
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Remove special characters in a URL

I need a help to prevent special characters in URL & it should redirect to 404 error page, if anyone specifically entered characters. ...

May 28, 2022
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