Support » Plugin: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection » Sensitive information being sent to Akismet

  • There is a section of code on lines 356 to 361 that causes Akismet to send a lot of sensitive information about the environment on which WordPress is running to the Akismet servers. This information includes the server name, internal IP, domain, application pool, document root, etc.

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  • Quite surprising. Can someone from Akismet development team please kindily explain, why Akismet needs these sensitive data to just fight spam in comments?

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