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wp-login.php

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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?

wp-login.php

WordPress

What an attacker could do

The WordPress admin login is a prime target for credential-stuffing and brute-force bots; a weak admin password yields full site takeover and a foothold for malware and SEO spam.

How to defend it

Enforce strong, unique admin passwords and 2FA, rate-limit or IP-restrict wp-login.php, consider renaming the login path, and keep WordPress core and plugins patched.

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