Security issue leaks login name
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Not sure if this is a conflict with a plugin but…
Sadly had to uninstall the theme. Everywhere below that says
‘my-private-username’
is where the theme listed my ‘hidden’ login name directly in the delivered html page source (not good for helping mitigate brute force attacks):‘!DOCTYPE html><html dir=”ltr” lang=”en-US”><head><meta charset=”UTF-8″><meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge”><meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=3.0″ /><title>blurb – private dude</title><meta name=”description” content=”all-in-one-seo stuff” /><meta name=”robots” content=”max-image-preview:large” /><link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.my-private-site.com/services-overview” /> <script type=”application/ld+json” class=”aioseo-schema”>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@graph”:[{“@type”:”WebSite”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#website”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/”,”name”:”site title – private dude”,”description”:”plug”,”inLanguage”:”en-US”,”publisher”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#organization”}},{“@type”:”Organization”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#organization”,”name”:”blurb – private dude”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/”,”logo”:{“@type”:”ImageObject”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#organizationLogo”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/LinkedIn150x150.jpg”,”width”:150,”height”:150},”image”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#organizationLogo”}},{“@type”:”BreadcrumbList”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#breadcrumblist”,”itemListElement”:[{“@type”:”ListItem”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#listItem”,”position”:1,”item”:{“@type”:”WebPage”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/”,”name”:”Home”,”description”:”blurb”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/”}}]},{“@type”:”Person”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/author\/my-private-username#author”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/author\/my-private-username”,”name”:”private dude”,”image”:{“@type”:”ImageObject”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#authorImage”,”url”:”https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb1216ebfc31bbc72d9095844f462e0c?s=96&d=mm&r=r”,”width”:96,”height”:96,”caption”:”private dude”}},{“@type”:”WebPage”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#webpage”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview”,”name”:”Sblurb – private dude”,”description”:”all-in-one-seo stuff”,”inLanguage”:”en-US”,”isPartOf”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#website”},”breadcrumb”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#breadcrumblist”},”author”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/author\/my-private-username#author”,”creator”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/author\/my-private-username#author”,”datePublished”:”2012-05-29T05:57:51-08:00″,”dateModified”:”2022-05-09T00:38:25-08:00″},{“@type”:”Article”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#article”,”name”:”blurb – private dude”,”description”:”blurbs”,”inLanguage”:”en-US”,”headline”:”Services Overview”,”author”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/author\/my-private-username#author”},”publisher”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#organization”},”datePublished”:”2012-05-29T05:57:51-08:00″,”dateModified”:”2022-05-09T00:38:25-08:00″,”articleSection”:”Hire private”,”mainEntityOfPage”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#webpage”},”isPartOf”:{“@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/services-overview#webpage”},”image”:{“@type”:”ImageObject”,”@id”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/#articleImage”,”url”:”https:\/\/www.my-private-site.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/LinkedIn150x150.jpg”,”width”:150,”height”:150}}]}</script> <link rel=’dns-prefetch’ href=’//s.w.org’ /><link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”blurb – private dude » Feed” href=”https://www.my-private-site.com/feed” />`
…hopefully the details above don’t get too skewed to the point this is unreadable. Removed my details so doesn’t appear as self promotion. Anyhow hope this helps avoid problems if anyone else unknowingly runs into this too.
thx
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