nginx rule to mitigate DoS attack on WordPress load-scripts.php

nginx-load-scripts-mitigation.conf

# https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
# https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
location ~* ^/wp-admin/load-scripts\.php$ {
  if ( $query_string ~* "^.{1024,}$" ) {
    return 444;
  }
}

Thanks for sharing. Might want to also mitigate load-styles.php, as it has the same issues.