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Most security plugins try to do everything — firewall, blocking, malware scanning, email alerts — and end up bloated, slow, and full of upsells. Attack Monitor does one thing: it watches your site for common attack patterns and quietly logs them, so you always know what’s being thrown at your site. 
What it detects
Brute force login attempts 
XML-RPC abuse (including system.multicall floods) 
User enumeration via ?author= and the REST API 
Admin area probing by unauthenticated visitors 
Path and plugin scanning (phpinfo.php, .env, phpmyadmin, wp-config.php and more) 
SQL injection attempts in URLs and POST data 
XSS attempts in URLs and POST data 
Comment flooding
What you get
A dashboard widget showing this week’s attacks by category at a glance 
A full log page with day / week / 30-day / all-time views 
A bar chart of attack volume over time 
Top attacking IPs ranked by hit count 
Filterable event log with timestamps, IPs, URLs and detail 
Safe IP whitelist — exclude your own monitoring tools, cron jobs or office IP ranges 
CIDR range support (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) for the whitelist 
A single lightweight database table — nothing else added to your WordPress installation
Philosophy 
Detection and blocking are separate concerns. This plugin handles detection only, leaving you free to choose how you respond — whether that’s Fail2ban, Cloudflare, a companion blocking plugin, or simply reviewing the data. No firewall rules are added, no requests are blocked or slowed down, and no data is sent anywhere outside your own database. 
Ideal for developers, agencies and site owners who want visibility without handing over control to an all-in-one security suite.

Janric Simple Attack Monitor

Lightweight attack detection for WordPress. Logs brute force, XML-RPC abuse, SQL injection, XSS attempts and more. No bloat, no blocking — just data.

Samuel Aguilera

Stops abuse of your site’s XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.
This is more friendly than disabling totally XML-RPC, that it’s needed by some plugins and apps (I.e. Mobile apps or some Jetpack’s modules).
<ul>
<li>The original one.</li>
<li>Simple and effective.</li>
<li>No marketing buzz.</li>
<li>Maintained and updated when needed since 2014.</li>
<li>100% compliant with WordPress coding standards which makes it fail safe.</li>
<li>60,000+ active installations can’t be wrong.</li>
</ul>
If you’re happy with the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-xml-rpc-pingback/reviews/?filter=5" rel="ugc">please don’t forget to give it a good rating</a>, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).
<h4>Features</h4>
Removes the following methods from XML-RPC interface.
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<li>pingback.ping</li>
<li>pingback.extensions.getPingbacks</li>
<li>X-Pingback from HTTP headers. This will hopefully stops some bots from trying to hit your xmlrpc.php file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.8.1 or higher.</li>
</ul>

Disable XML-RPC Pingback

Gran trabajo Samuel, en combinación con algunas reglas de htaccess hace un trabajo fantástico.

Fantástico plugin, imprescindible

Stops abuse of your site's XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.

Janric Simple Attack Monitor vs Disable XML-RPC Pingback