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Nonce, Please!
"Nonce, Please!" is a simple plugin that prevents brute-force comments and trackbacks from spammer. This is *NOT* an alternatives to Akismet.
Akismet is a great plugin to block spam comments/trackbacks. It detects spams completely. But, Akismet allows to accept unsolicited feedbacks, and to store them in the database. It is weaker act to fight with spams. A better way is to reject them.
Also, the architecture of WordPress is vulnerable for spammer. Because the comment API is fixed URL like: "wp-comments-post.php", "wp-trackback.php, or "http://blog.example.com/archives/99/trackback/". Therefore, spammers can easily post bulk comments/trackbacks to WordPress weblogs.
"Nonce, Please!" add a nonce (random strings) to the comment hidden field and/or the trackback URL. A valid comment and/or trackback should have a nonce string. Bulk feedbacks will not have nonce. This plugins also verifies that a new comment/trackbacks has the valid nonce. If there is no nonce or an invalid one, the feedback is rejected.
Adding and verifying nonce is automatic, users are not do anything!
lilyfan
Requires: 2.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.0.5
Last Updated: 2010-5-8
Downloads: 4,038
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