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Okoth1 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] BUG: Prevent discovery of usernames"

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There is an option on the Settings page that says: Prevent discovery of usernames through '?/author=N' scans

I thought that ticking this option would prevent that people can check for usernames but this is not true. It may work for /?author=1 but certainly not for the other IDs.

The username can simple be found in the titlebar.

I have deactivated the option and added the right code in the htaccess to prevent access to the author name.

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