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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit
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Our client’s review
We continue sharing our clients’ reviews and today’s one is kindly brought to you by Matt Erney on Trustpilot. The service works well to keep our form spam under control! TWe have been using the CleanTalk plugin for 3 years to control form spam on any of our client websites (and our own site). CleanTalk…
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CleanTalk Research Team Discovers Stored XSS Vulnerability in WP SEOPress Plugin (v7.7.1)
The CleanTalk Research Team identified a critical Stored XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability in the WP SEOPress plugin, version 7.7.1. This flaw can be exploited by attackers with contributor privileges to create new admin accounts, potentially granting them full control of your WordPress website. Understanding Stored XSS (CVE-2024-4899) Stored XSS vulnerabilities allow attackers to inject malicious…
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Flamingo Plugin new option – “Not Saving Spam Messages”
As you know, we have direct integration with the most popular contact form plugin – Contact Form 7. Also, you are probably familiar with the Flamingo – a message storage plugin, which doesn’t store submitted messages. Earlier, when using these two plugins simultaneously with CleanTalk Anti-Spam, messages recognized as spam would end up in the…
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Attention CleanTalk Anti-Spam Users! Important Update Regarding Public Widget
We’re writing to inform you that the public widget for CleanTalk Anti-Spam will be removed from the plugin and no longer be supported after August 1, 2024. What does this mean for you? The public widget, which is typically displayed on public pages and demonstrates the number of spam attacks, is no longer considered compatible…
