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Issue related with WORDPRESS :: XMLRPC.PHP ATTACK!

WordPress is the most targeted CMS nowadays and needs to be updated regularly. Recently I have seen attacks on wordpress :: xmlrpc.php using POST requests and the attack is large enough to take down / freeze the server. The top or ps aufxw shows most of the xmlrpc.php requests as below : successroute4414 1.3 0.4 85512 35544 ? R 20:57 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/php /home/successroute/public_html/wordpress/xmlrpc.php nobody 3876 0.0 0.1 25936 10852 ? S 20:52 0:00 \_ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL successroute 4413 1.3 0.4 [...]

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