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WooCommerce: How to Stop Fake Orders and Spam Signups
If you run a WooCommerce store, spam is rarely limited to a few junk messages. More often, it appears in ways that directly affect store operations: fake orders, suspicious signups, spam reviews, and unwanted submissions through store-related forms. Left unchecked, this kind of activity creates extra admin work, weakens customer data quality, and makes it
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WordPress CAPTCHA: Should You Use It or Not? Pros and Cons Explained
In today’s digital landscape, protecting your WordPress website from spam and malicious activities is paramount. One of the most common tools used to achieve this is CAPTCHA. However, whether to use CAPTCHA or not can be a topic of debate among website owners. This article will explore the pros and cons of using CAPTCHA on…
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Why CAPTCHA Falls Short and How CleanTalk Helps
Why CAPTCHA Falls Short and How CleanTalk Helps CAPTCHA used to feel clever — until it started blocking real users.If you’re looking for a CAPTCHA alternative that protects your WordPress site without frustrating visitors, this article explains how CleanTalk does it differently. According to Baymard Institute, traditional CAPTCHA can reduce form completion rates by up…
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Our Investigation of the Hack of One Website (OR: How We Investigated a Hack of One Website)
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We were contacted by one WordPress website owner with the issue of a website hack. Consequences of the hack were that their whole website content was deleted, meaning articles, pictures, plugins and themes were gone and visiting the website displayed a blank page. What was left in the folder «wp-content» was a single folder «uploads»,…
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Security Update: Please Update CleanTalk Anti-Spam to the Latest Version
We’re reaching out to let you know about a security vulnerability that was recently disclosed in the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin for WordPress. We’ve already released a fix, and we want to make sure you’re protected. What happened? On February 14, 2026, a vulnerability (CVE-2026-1490) was publicly disclosed affecting CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin versions 6.71 and earlier.…
