Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection

Akismet is an anti-spam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce that checks comments and contact form submissions against a global database of spam to prevent malicious content from being published. It automatically filters out spam comments, shows URLs in the comment body, and has a discard feature to block the worst spam. A free API key is available for personal blogs, while paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

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Vulnerabilities

  • Input validation vulnerability in Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection 3.1.5

    Fixed

    The Akismet plugin

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  • Input validation vulnerability in Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection 2.0.1

    Fixed

    The Akismet Spam Protection plugin for WordPress was vulnerable to a type of malicious attack called Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions before 2.0.2. This means that attackers were able to insert...

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