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WordPress User Registration Form Detected

info Web App Scanning Plugin ID 98202

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Synopsis

WordPress User Registration Form Detected

Description

This is an informational plugin to inform the user that the scanner has detected a publicly accessible WordPress User Registration Form on the target application.

This may present an attacker with an exploit vector which could be leveraged using other techniques, such as a Brute-Force or Dictionary Attack

Solution

Restrict access to Registration Forms using a .htaccess file, limiting access to known IP Addresses.

See Also

https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 98202

Type: remote

Published: 3/1/2018

Updated: 4/3/2018

Scan Template: basic, full, pci, scan