Disable XML-RPC-API
Security Firewall & Site Security
Disable XML-RPC-API is a WordPress plugin for Firewall & Site Security. It ranks #15 of 205 in that group by active installs and was last updated 9 months ago.
Slug disable-xml-rpc-api
Maintenance check
Is Disable XML-RPC-API still maintained?
Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.
- No release for a while. The last one was 9 months ago.
- Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
- Well rated. 4.2 out of 5 from 43 ratings.
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More installed than 99.0% of the directory
Ahead of 47,273 of the 47,735 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.
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Details
The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 2.1.7
- Requires WordPress
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- 6.9.11
- Added to the directory
- 1 October 2020
- Last updated
- 4 February 2026
- Contributors
- 2
- Author
- Amin Nazemi
- Support threads resolved
- 0 of 1
Its own tags
- disable xml-rpc
- disable xmlrpc
- pingback
- stop brute force attacks
- xmlrpc
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