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MAT Firewall is a comprehensive WordPress security plugin designed to safeguard your website from malicious traffic, brute force attacks, and unauthorized access. Whether you’re running a small blog, business site, or eCommerce platform, MAT Firewall provides robust security while maintaining performance.
<h3>Key Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Advanced Firewall Rules – Block or allow traffic based on IP, country, URI, HTTP methods, and more.</li>
<li>Rate Limiting & Anti-Brute Force – Set request limits to prevent spam, DDoS attacks, and abusive bot activity.</li>
<li>CDN Integration & Protection – Secure your site with CDN IP whitelisting and anti-spoofing measures.</li>
<li>Real-Time Monitoring – View blocked and allowed requests via a detailed security dashboard.</li>
<li>Lightweight & Optimized – Runs efficiently without slowing down your site.</li>
</ul>
🚀 Upgrade to MAT Firewall Pro for unlimited rules, dynamic blocking, enhanced rate-limiting, and priority support. 
🔗 <a href="https://pro.matplugins.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn More & Upgrade</a>
<h3>Upgrade to MAT Firewall Pro</h3>
Unlock premium security features with MAT Firewall Pro: 
✅ Unlimited Custom Rules 
✅ Advanced Rate-Limiting & Dynamic Blocking 
✅ Detailed Security Analytics 
✅ Priority Support
🔥 Upgrade now: <a href="https://pro.matplugins.com" rel="nofollow ugc">MAT Firewall Pro</a>
<h3>License & Copyright</h3>
This plugin is licensed under GPLv2 or later. 
More details: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU GPL License</a>.

MAT Firewall

One of the best WordPress firewall plugins

MAT Firewall is a powerful WordPress security plugin that helps protect your website from malicious attacks, brute force attempts, and unauthorized ac …

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.
<ul>
<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.

MAT Firewall vs Disable XML-RPC Pingback