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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?
wlwmanifest.xml
Windows Live Writer manifest linked by WordPress, commonly probed to fingerprint installs
What an attacker could do
Its presence confirms a WordPress install and helps bots fingerprint the platform to select targeted exploits, though the file itself exposes no sensitive data.
How to defend it
Remove the manifest link with `remove_action('wp_head','wlwmanifest_link')` if Windows Live Writer is unused, and ensure the server returns a clean 404 without revealing version banners.
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