SMNTCS Disable REST API User Endpoints

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Disable the REST API user endpoints due to obscure user slugs

Author:Niels Lange (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.5
WordPress version tested:6.4.3
Plugin version:2.2
Added to WordPress repository:24-12-2016
Last updated:15-10-2023
Rating, %:100
Rated by:2
Plugin URI:https://github.com/nielslange/smntcs-disable-...
Total downloads:15 579
Active installs:3 000+
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With WordPress 4.7 the REST API is part of the core. At the moment everyone has read access to the REST API. As a result of that a potential intruder can retrieve a list of all user slugs via /wp-json/wp/v2/users. This plugin disables the REST API user endpoints to obscure the user slugs.

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