[TriLUG] Web attack?

[David Landry]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Ken M <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> Quick googling and i found this:
> http://perishablepress.com/wordpress-xmlrpc-pingback-vulnerability/
>
> So they are looking for a wordpress exploit. If you are not serving
> wordpress I would block based on the request for that.
>

They might be trying to exploit this: http://www.breaksec.com/?p=6362

If that's the case, Drupal is also affected. And other systems might have
XML parsers that suffer from a similar vulnerability.