Title: pingback.extensions.getPingbacks
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# pingback.extensions.getPingbacks

 *  Resolved [Adam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dahamsta/)
 * (@dahamsta)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbackextensionsgetpingbacks/)
 * Hi,
 * I want to include a plugin like this in my client’s sites using TGM Plugin Activation,
   so two quick questions:
 * 1. The Remove plugin by bradvin only unsets pingback.ping, is there a benefit
   to disabling pingback.extensions.getPingbacks too?
 * 2. You say in the description that wp.getUsersBlogs is removed too, is this by
   reference?
 * Thanks,
    Adam
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc-pingback/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc-pingback/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Samuel Aguilera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samuelaguilera/)
 * (@samuelaguilera)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbackextensionsgetpingbacks/#post-5355381)
 * Hi,
 * 1. The purporse of this plugin (at present) is to disable XML-RPC Pingback functionality
   complete. pingback.extensions.getPingbacks is used for attacks too, you can find
   some examples in Google searching a little. For example [this one](http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36578).
 * 2. Sorry about that. I’m testing about disabling wp.getUsersBlogs (commonly used
   to perform bruteforce attacks) and put that by mistake in the 1.0 readme (now
   is corrected). But it’s not really in the 1.0 code. If you want to try the plugin
   with this one too, try the [development version](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-xml-rpc-pingback.zip).
   This version may break the usage of WordPress mobile apps, not tested yet.
 * If you use the development version, don’t forget to give me some feedback 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Adam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dahamsta/)
 * (@dahamsta)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbackextensionsgetpingbacks/#post-5355449)
 * Thanks for the fast reply Samuel. I’ll load the standard version into my client’s
   sites, and the development one into my own, I’ll let you know if there are any
   problems. I use the Android app, but rarely. 🙂

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## Tags

 * [pingback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingback/)
 * [XML-RPC](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml-rpc/)
 * [xmlrpc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xmlrpc/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Adam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dahamsta/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbackextensionsgetpingbacks/#post-5355449)
 * Status: resolved