Title: Vulnerable Script With A Brute Force Attack Problem
Last modified: April 7, 2023

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# Vulnerable Script With A Brute Force Attack Problem

 *  Resolved [Jake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakebb/)
 * (@jakebb)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerable-script-with-a-brute-force-attack-problem/)
 * You have coding problems that lead to an easy brute force attack on the following
   files…
 * /wp-content/uploads/wpo/server-signature/on/test.php-
    /wp-content/uploads/wpo/
   add-type/request-me.test- /wp-content/uploads/wpo/directory-index/
 * In fact the hole wpo file looks to be useless and you where made aware about 
   this 10 months ago?
 *     ```
       wp-content/uploads/wpo/module-loaded/rewrite/content-digest/request-me.txt
   
       contents: “thanks”.
   
       wp-content/uploads/wpo/module-loaded/mime/content-digest/request-me.txt
   
       contents: “thanks”.
   
       wp-content/uploads/wpo/module-loaded/headers/content-digest/request-me.txt
   
       contents: “thanks”.
   
       wp-content/uploads/wpo/module-loaded/headers/content-digest/request-me.txt
   
       contents: “thanks”.
   
       /wp-content/uploads/wpo/content-digest/on/request-me.txt
   
       contents: “hi”
       ```
   
 * I mean what’s the point? Unless you love a vulnerable script?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Venkat Raj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webulous/)
 * (@webulous)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerable-script-with-a-brute-force-attack-problem/#post-16635297)
 * [@jakebb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakebb/) Those files are not useless
   files, those are used to determine the redirection capability of your server.
   That said, we are working on a fix to remove the usage of those file.
 *  Thread Starter [Jake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakebb/)
 * (@jakebb)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerable-script-with-a-brute-force-attack-problem/#post-16635946)
 * Well living a server vulnerable to this type of attack is not acceptable! Do 
   better!

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 * Last reply from: [Jake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakebb/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerable-script-with-a-brute-force-attack-problem/#post-16635946)
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