Title: xmlrpc.php Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # xmlrpc.php * [joaquin_win](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joaquin_win/) * (@joaquin_win) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp/) * Hi, * Last Month I had a very hard attack on my xmlrpc.php, as a security meassure I blocked all access to it (403 Forbidden). This month I see Yahoo and google requesting it: * 72.30.226.231 – – [01/Oct/2006:11:57:31 -0500] “GET /xmlrpc.php?rsd HTTP/1.0” 403 277 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; [http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp](http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp))” * 66.249.65.44 – – [30/Sep/2006:23:59:19 -0500] “GET /xmlrpc.php?rsd HTTP/1.1” 403 289 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot. html)” * So my question is: what to do? What do you recomend to do, since that attack didn’t work (I think) but only rendered usesless my stats… * What use is Yahoo or Google trying to do with a GET request? Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [Peter Westwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westi/) * (@westi) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp/#post-461024) * This request is for the rsd file which is linked from the header on the front page of your, and everyone elses, WordPress blog. * For example: `` * The RSD file is for “Really Simple Discovery” of services needed to edit weblog services. See [http://tales.phrasewise.com/rfc/rsd.html](http://tales.phrasewise.com/rfc/rsd.html) for more info. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘xmlrpc.php’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [attack](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/attack/) * [xmlrpc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xmlrpc/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Peter Westwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westi/) * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp/#post-461024) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics