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 …

Walter Ebert

This plugin does more than just using the <code>xmlrpc_enabled</code> hook, because that is only used “To disable XML-RPC methods that require authentication”.
Activating this plugin will also disable pingbacks, trackbacks, and Really Simple Discovery (RSD), because these rely on XML-RPC.
It works with any webserver, because it does not use the .htaccess file.
<h4>Testing the plugin</h4>
From the command line you can test if the plugin is working correctly using <a href="https://curl.haxx.se/" rel="nofollow ugc">cURL</a>. Replace the <code>example.com</code> link to match your website:
<pre><code>curl -d '<?xml version="1.0"?><methodCall><methodName>system.listMethods</methodName><params><param><value><string/></value></param></params></methodCall>' https://example.com/xmlrpc.php
</code></pre>
This should only return the following methods: 
– <code>system.multicall</code> 
– <code>system.listMethods</code> 
– <code>system.getCapabilities</code>

Remove XML-RPC Methods

Remove all WordPress methods from the XML-RPC API to increase security.

ImageURLReturner vs Remove XML-RPC Methods