[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24673: provide mainline supported rename of wp-login

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#24673: provide mainline supported rename of wp-login
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 Reporter:  jorhett       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Security      |     Version:  3.5.2
 Severity:  critical      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |
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Comment (by mark-k):

 Replying to [comment:4 jorhett]:

 >
 > The botnet code isn't doing something complex like evaluating the HTML
 of each site to find the login URL.

 citation needed. spam bots were solving gmail captcha some time ago, why
 can't they do simple extraction from HTML?

 Anyway changing the url of the login will not help without also changing
 the url of the XML-RPC endpoint as well.

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