When you use a blogging client from your computer/mobile-phone to upload photos to WordPress, WordPress resizes the 
image into smaller versions (e.g. thumbnail and medium) but the URLs of these resized images aren’t returned to 
the client so it can’t use them.
If clients are altered to support this plugin, when you include photos in an entry, the entry could automagically 
include the smaller images which link to the full size version when clicked on.
There is a patch to add the functionality in this plugin into the core of WordPress: 
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6430 
but it missed the cut-off from WordPress 3.0 so it is unlikely to to be included for some time to come.

ImageURLReturner

When an XML-RPC Wordpress client uploads a photo, this plugin add the URLs for the resized images to the response so they can be used by the client in …

Jonny Harris

Simple plugin that disables XML-RPC, since it is enabled by default on WordPress 3.5 and above. It also removed references in the headers and in the body of the html.
If you wish to follow the development of this plugin, view the code on the official plugin <a href="http://www.jonathandavidharris.co.uk/scripts/disable-xml-rpc-fully/" title="website" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a> or follow me on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/thespacedmonkey" rel="nofollow ugc">@thespacedmonkey</a>

ImageURLReturner vs Disable XML RPC Fully