Stop WordPress Username Enumeration Vulnerability

You can patch the WordPress username enumeration vulnerability by adding the following lines of code to your site's .htaccess.

# Stop WordPress username enumeration vulnerability
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/?author=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursite.com/somepage/? [L,R=301]
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