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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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How Spam Activity Changes Over Time — and Why It’s Not Related to License Expiration
From time to time, website owners report a sudden increase in spam activity and try to link it to plugin settings, hosting, or license status.However, these assumptions often overlook how dynamic spam behavior truly is.To illustrate this, I conducted a small study analyzing spam distribution over time using data from several of our WordPress sites.…
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A critical vulnerability in WP Statistics threatens over 600,000 websites: CleanTalk Research team discovers complete admin panel takeover method
The CleanTalk Research team has identified a critical vulnerability in the popular WP Statistics plugin (versions up to and including 14.15.3), which is installed on over 600,000 WordPress websites. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), leading to administrative session hijacking, admin panel compromise, and potential code execution on the underlying…
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Free access to Block lists database
We are glad to announce that we have launched a free tier of our Block Lists Database! https://cleantalk.org/price-database-api The specifications of Level 0 are, As well as we increased records per levels 1-4, Sign up for the database,https://cleantalk.org/register?product_name=database_api Dashboard is here,https://cleantalk.org/my/?cp_mode=api Have fun! Have questions? Drop us a message in the comment form below.
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Our Client’s Review: WP Guru
We love sharing feedback from our users — and today’s story comes from Robin from WP Guru. CleanTalk has been a lifesaver for my client’s website on countless occasions. As someone managing SEO-driven lead generation sites and WooCommerce stores, having a reliable solution to combat spam has been an essential part of the development process.…
