How to Brute Force WordPress (and prevent it on your site)

Learn how brute forcing the WordPress login page works, and find out what you can do to prevent this attack from happening on your website.

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[James-lxvk]

I get a 'Can't get username' error when trying to replicate this. I know the username if that helps?

[minnuss]

Usually a person who wants to brute force your website is using a public proxy list, so this type of defense is ok to some level, but not enough...because it doesn't ban IP addresses.
And attack will go on and on and on and on ...

[it-expat-china]

Your videos deserve more views, thanks very much!

[danielp]

I am testing my wordpress but seeing the same issue as others, "Can't get username" when the script is ran

[sarathchet]

It is error with "Can't Get Username" any advise please ?

[jofranlirio]

Hi Tony, how can I block direct external IP access when I using lightspeed server? When I monitor the error404 on WordPress, I can see a lot of this results...

[left]

WOW!!! Had you added your password to the downloaded list or was it already in the list as a random password? That was a great demo!!! Thank you!!!

[seyraarms]

Hi, I got a username related error but I did not see you state any username, you only provided the url and the passwords.txt file. So why am I receiving this error message...? Thanks.

[karthikeyan.b]

Hi can you plz put the video for the docker basic

[drmikeyg]

Tony you should do a video on WP scan also. That's how those dirty low down hackers can get a lot of information about a wordpress site.

[ddrci]

user is not a credentials for wordpres its so easy to took out from XLM file from WP.

[Nanax]

Doesnt works "Can't get username"

[ervaunal]

The brute forcer goes through passwords slowly even though cpu usage is at 17%

[phamvanhan]

Can we change the username instead of ADMIN?

[djkvido]

I also tried it on my website, but unfortunately it says that the username was not found and I couldn't find a way to solve it anywhere.

[grantwin]

Hi Tony, i am so excited about this educational content you just shared. Please i keep getting this error
[-] Can't open the file at Xbrute_force/XBruteForcer.pl line 96, <STDIN> line 1. what am i doing wrong?