Question: Was the new REST API turned on automatically?
I don't use Wordpress, but if the answer is yes then it is completely dumb to increase the attack surface like that.
I don't use Wordpress, but if the answer is yes then it is completely dumb to increase the attack surface like that.
My site was hit, as far as hacks go this one wasn't too bad. They defaced the last post, the solution was to revert to an earlier revision and upgrade WP to version 4.7.2.
If we would have had auto updates enabled then this attack would have been prevented. So the takeway from this is make sure that auto updates are enabled.
If you are doing things in WordPress that break with a security patch, you need to re-examine what it is you're doing.