Vulnerability Bulletins

Blocking the “ReallyLongRequest” Bandit

   
Affected software Wordpress
 
https://perishablepress.com/blocking-reallylongrequest-bandit/ While browsing server logs, I kept seeing these super long request URIs that begin with “YesThisIsAReallyLongRequest…” and then the request string just keeps going for like 1 kilobyte worth of characters. Not just a few times, but many. In other words, somebody is going around and repeatedly hitting servers with gigantic-size requests. Probably to […]

More info:

https://perishablepress.com/blocking-reallylongrequest-bandit/