Disable Pingbacks for security reasons
Due to recent hacking attemps of WordPress sites we found a code to close the hole. This disables the blog pingback functionality most sites don’t even use and prevents WordPress from participating in pingback DOS-attacks.
/** * Snippet Name: Disable Pingbacks for security reasons * Snippet URL: https://wpcustoms.net/snippets/disable-pingbacks-for-security-reasons/ */ function remove_xmlrpc_pingback_ping( $methods ) { unset( $methods['pingback.ping'] ); return $methods; } ; add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', 'remove_xmlrpc_pingback_ping' );