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Why You Should Stop User Enumeration in WordPress?

November 14, 2019 April 3, 2020

User enumeration is a way to fetch your website’s user data through malicious scripts. The hacker can fetch only the username details with this. Since knowing a username means 50% work done for the hacker in executing a brute-force. It is a serious security risk.

There are a few known tricks that can bare your user details in front of the hacker. You can learn these in this blog post here with the step-by-step process to fix it.

 

 

 

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