Oct 272013
 

This is a really simple fix which will block the user enumeration on a wordpress site (like the method by wpscan).

Before I get into this, I am very well aware of the IfIsEvil page on nginx wiki.  But it also says on this page, “The only 100% safe things which may be done inside if in location context are:  return and rewrite as the last statement in a location block”  With that in mind, we are going to use ONLY rewrite as the last statement in our location block.

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