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Spam Master is the Ultimate Spam Protection plugin that blocks new user registrations and post comments with Real Time anti-spam lists.

Author:TechGasp (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.0
WordPress version tested:6.5.2
Plugin version:7.4.0
Added to WordPress repository:01-10-2013
Last updated:11-04-2024
Rating, %:84
Rated by:69
Plugin URI:https://www.spammaster.org
Total downloads:122 534
Active installs:200+
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Spam Master is a Real-Time Firewall and anti-spam protection from millions of known spam emails, domains, ip’s and words by blocking user registrations, comments, contact forms, etc. Spam Master uses RBL technology (real time block lists) constantly being updated to stop spam.

Spam Master is currently compatible with all major plugins: WooCommerce, BuddyPress, Easy Digital Downloads, JetPack, bbPress, Contact Form 7, Contact Form by WPForms, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, MailChimp, Formidable forms, S2Member, MailPoet, wpDiscuz, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, etc. Spam Master is also compatible with any modification or customization done to WordPress registrations, comments, contact forms and themes.

Makes no use of Javascript or Ajax to keep your website fast, conflicts free and with a good Google Lighthouse and Google PageSpeed Insights score

Fast loading, Spam Master is modular… it only loads what is needed to keep your website secure and clean.

Spam Features

  • Anti-spam Firewall
  • Anti-bots Firewall
  • Anti-crawlers Firewall
  • Anti-flood Firewall
  • Protects Registrations from (spamming bots, users or both)
  • Protects Comments from (spamming bots, users or both)
  • Protects Pages and Posts from malicious trackbacks (spamming bots, users or both)
  • Contact Form 7 Ready. Uses pro-active scan of your email contact form before triggering any mail function
  • WpForms Ready. Real time spam scanning and antibot protection.
  • Gravity Forms Ready. Scans form data before delivery.
  • WooCommerce Ready. Eliminates all credit card fraud by preventing known sources of spam from registering via WooCommerce registration. It also includes WooCommerce spam signatures
  • BuddyPress Ready. Scans registrations and logins. It also includes BuddyPress spam signatures
  • Xmlrpc Ready. Protects your website from xmlrpc.php exploits and attacks.
  • Marks as spam comments wrongly cleared as safe by akismet, check screenshots
  • Checks for emails, domains, ip’s, ip ranges and spam words
  • Uses real time scan from millions of known spamming sources (effectively blocks those nasty hotmail, live, msn and outlook registrations)
  • Professional logging of all actions regarding security
  • Includes Analytics, Statistical information to keep your life easy
  • Allows whitelist emails and ip’s to be exempt from spam checks
  • Allows customization of the frontend block message
  • Allows you to hide the website field from your theme comments form
  • Includes Character Blocking. Option to individually activate cyrillic, chinese, asian, arabic characters, immediately blocks comments or contact form 7 messages that use these characters
  • Includes Honeypot fields for registration, login or comments forms
  • Includes Firewall technology, blocking misfits before they even enter your website
  • Includes Spam Signatures
  • Includes automatic Threat Alert Level, it’s an easy and interactive way for you to know if your website is being targeted by spammers and the level of intensity or danger of this targeting
  • Includes Spam Activity Probability, in conjunction with the Alert Level, Spam Master advanced detection heuristic analytics will provide you with an approximated percentage of all activity in your website
  • Includes a bunch of useful widgets and safe website seal for commerce and sales
  • Includes several optional email reports and warnings to keep you informed
  • PHP 7 ready
  • PHP 8 ready
  • IPv6 ready

Real Time Block Lists

Spam Master scans logins, registrations, comments and contacts via online real time block lists with millions of threats already listed and constantly being maintained and updated.

Website Firewall HAF

Spam Master blocks malicious activity before it even reaches your website or admin pages. Spam Master implements a new concept called High Availability Firewall that protects your website against dangerous exploits like HTTP and HTTPS DDoS (denial-of-service), SQL injections, brute force attacks and many others threats.

Spam Buffer

Buffer technology greatly reduces server resources like cpu, memory and bandwidth by doing fast local machine checks. Also prevents major attacks like flooding, DoS , etc. via Spam Master Firewall.

Whitelist Exemptions

Spam Buffer Whitelisting excludes spam checks from safe Emails or Ip’s, it also removes these safe Emails and Ip’s from your local Spam Buffer.

Antibot

Spam Master is a powerful anti-bot shield that easily detects and blocks robotic spam form submissions via real time bot checks. It also detects pesky robots running on browser macros, addons and extensions, headless browsers and browsers without javascript, sessions or cookies.

Administrator Pages Protection

Spam Master blocks DOS resulting from brute force attacks or sql injections trying to login or search for admin passwords.

What is Spam Master Learning?

The module comes packed with automated Spam Learning function that will make your website a fighting spam enforcer by providing registration ip’s and emails for analysis and spam lists inclusion.

What is Spam Master Alert Level?

It’s an easy and interactive way for you to know if your website is being targeted by spammers and the level of intensity or danger of this targeting. The update is done daily and automatically via RBL (real-time blacklist) servers sync. The alert levels range from 0 (low) to 3 (high) intensities.

Spam Probability?

Spam Master includes Spam Activity Probability, in conjunction with Alert Level, Spam Master advanced detection heuristic analytics will provide you with an approximated percentage of all spam activity in your website.

Honeypot & Honeypot Version 2

Spam Master includes TechGasp technology Honeypot Version 2 a new concept of “smart dynamic input fields” that adapt and check for things like javascript, sessions and cookies alongside the traditional honeypot traps set to detect, deflect, and counteract attempts at unauthorized use of your website, a honeypot consists of data that appears to be a legitimate part of the site, but is actually isolated and monitored, and that seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers, who are then blocked, colloquially known as “baiting” a suspect.

No more Annoying CAPTCHA

Spam Master stops spam bots without user annoying CAPTCHA, reCaptcha, counts, puzzles and or any other question answer system. It improves your visitors satisfaction and browsing experience stopping spam bots at the same time.

Do I need a special Mobile App

If you want browse from your iPhone or Android device no special apps are needed.

Logging & Clean-Up

As good linux freaks we’ve implemented into Spam Master an healthy “obsessive compulsive” logging. Everything related to security gets logged and is accessible via the module Logs & Statistics page. On the other hand, in the module Protection Tools page we’ve also implemented full control over all logs retention time to keep your website fast & clean.

Privacy Policy and GDPR

We are an European Union company that fully complies with GDPR. We take a step further as described in our privacy policy, No data is shared with third parties operators.

Spam Master is a Saas spam protection.

You can Generate a Free Server License in the plugin Settings page. This plugin provides a service software as a service wiki.

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