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GiveWP – Spam Protection guide in 2026. Stop spam donations!
CleanTalk has added spam protection for GiveWP using direct form integration. This makes it a good opportunity to explore how to protect GiveWP against spam submissions using both built-in anti-spam tools integrated into the plugin core and third-party solutions. We will start with CleanTalk and then move on to Akismet, Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, honeypot
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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.…
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wpForo Forum – Spam Protection
CleanTalk added spam protection for wpForo Forum multi-layout bulletin board using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using wpForo be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect your wpForo Forms from spam. Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to…
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CleanTalk Malware Scanner — heuristic code analysis
We have already talked about the launch of security service for WordPress in the previous article. Today we want to talk about the launch of heuristic analysis to detect malicious code. The very presence of malicious code can lead to a ban in search results or a warning in the search for that the site…
