We show you how to block it. Stop user enumeration for security Apparently, hackers can find your username in wordpress by appending the query /?author=1
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You can see in the screenshot above that my server immediately returned the author page, revealing the username.
As explained in greater depth here, user enumeration happens when some malicious script scans a wordpress site for user data by requesting numerical user ids
For example, requests for author=1 through some number, say, author=1000, may reveal the usernames for all associated users. Whenever a post is published, the username or alias is shown as the author While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources
