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WordPress

2026-10-09

Akal Premium WordPress theme XSS vulnerability

This post describes the Akal premium WordPress theme Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. If you use this theme, delete it immediately!

Huge increase in WordPress xmlrpc.php POST requests

How to identify, block, mitigate and leverage xmlrpc.php scans, brute-force, and user enumeration attacks on WordPress sites... Secure WordPress xmlprc.php interface and reduce service disruption.

Windows Server

Last updated: 2026-10-04

"System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The URL-encoded form data is not valid." error after MS11-100

After installing security update MS11-100, ASP.NET forms with more than 1000 fields fail. Increase aspnet:MaxHttpCollectionKeys to fix it.