Plugin writes bad .htaccess rules causing 500 errors
Installing or updating the plugin writes invalid .htaccess rules that cause site-wide 500 errors.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 3 April 2022 · last reported 19 August 2025
What's going wrong
Owners of WordPress sites report that after installing or updating this XML-RPC blocking plugin, their whole site stopped loading and showed server error 500.
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