Security Researcher Detected: You might have ended up here because your site vulnerability scanner found something interesting. Hi! I'm a security engineer and I'm having a good time interacting with the people and bots that are interested in information security.
You will hopefully find this site is well-secured and I'm not interested in being hacked. I'm interested in learning about how people try to hack me, though.
What is this endpoint?
readme.html
Default README file used to fingerprint WordPress and other CMS versions
What an attacker could do
Reveals the CMS (commonly WordPress) and its version, narrowing the attacker's exploit selection to vulnerabilities affecting that specific release.
How to defend it
Remove readme.html post-install or block it at the web server, and suppress version strings in headers and generator meta tags.
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