RULE(RULE ID:313000)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2016-10-13
Rule Name: WEB-OTHER WordPress xmlrpc Pingback Denial of Service
Severity:
CVE ID:
Rule Protection Details
Description: This kind of requests are used as part of a distributed denial of service scenario.
Impact: Remote code execution
Affected OS: Windows, Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux
Reference: https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/more-than-162000-wordpress-sites-used-for-distributed-denial-of-service-attack.html
Solutions
Update vendor's patch.