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Bog standard (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

That’s just an automated trying to exploit some known hole or other in WordPress. PHP’s require can load libraries from remote machines over HTTP, and many PHP programs use dynamic requires` without sufficiently sanitising the input, resulting in a holes exploitable in the way you see in your logs.
As for Perl being used for that purpose, eh, so what? If it wasn’t, it’d be wget, or something Python, or in Ruby, or in Java, or whatever.

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