{"id":21649,"date":"2023-11-03T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T08:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2023-07-20T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T08:11:22","slug":"what-is-a-brute-force-attack-wordpress-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/what-is-a-brute-force-attack-wordpress-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Brute Force attack (WordPress basics)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brute Force attack can be translated to &#8220;een aanval met brute kracht&#8221; in Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>In this type of attack, the attacker uses sheer force rather than clever tactics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Brute Force attack on WordPress is often executed on the login page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wordpress-inlogpagina.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nice-img size-full wp-image-7616 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wordpress-inlogpagina.png\" alt=\"inlogpagina\" width=\"363\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>If you don&#8217;t have proper security measures in place, an attack can continue until the attacker successfully breaches your website.<br \/>\nAs this attack involves computers, it can be very fast, with thousands of login attempts fired at your login page every minute.<\/p>\n<h2>Preventing a Brute Force attack<\/h2>\n<p>You can prevent such an attack by securing your WordPress site with a specialized plugin or by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeveiligen.nl\/herstellen-type-website\">hiring our services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brute Force attack can be translated to &#8220;een aanval met brute kracht&#8221; in Dutch. In this type of attack, the attacker uses sheer force rather than clever tactics. A Brute Force attack on WordPress is often executed on the login page. If you don&#8217;t have proper security measures in place, an attack can continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}