Anti Referrer Spam

  • Michael Ecklund

    (@michaelecklund)


    9 years ago

    Just about all of my WordPress websites are getting nuked with “fake referrers”.

    Few common ones:

    semalt.com
    social-buttons.com
    buttons-for-website.com

    There’s a lot of discussion about this. Not too hard to find. Would be nice feature to have implemented as part of iThemes Security plugin. 🙂

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • dwinden

    (@dwinden)

    9 years ago

    You can update the modules/free/ban-users/lists/hackrepair-apache.inc file (if you are on Apache) and then have it’s updated content added to your .htaccess file by enabling the “Enable HackRepair.com’s blacklist feature” on the iTSec plugin Settings page, “Banned Users” section.

    This way I added:

    # Abuse HTTP Referrer Blocking
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^([^.]+.)*?semalt.com [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^([^.]+.)*?kambasoft.com [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^([^.]+.)*?savetubevideo.com [NC]
    # Abuse HTTP Referrer Blocking end

    But it would be better when iThemes includes updated HackRepair.com’s blacklist files (Apache + nginx) in the next update …

    dwinden

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