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WordPress REST API hammered with login attempts — how to detect credential stuffing

Your WordPress site is slow. The dashboard takes seven seconds to load. PHP-FPM workers are pinned. The Fail2Ban rule you set up two years ago for wp-login.php shows nothing unusual. But something is wrong.

If the homepage made a claim, this page is the receipts. Each finding below is either anonymized from a specific customer site or a pattern observed across many. Site names and identifying details are redacted; the operational shape is exactly what was seen.

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