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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[YITH WooCommerce Wishlist] High traffic for wishlist](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-traffic-for-wishlist/)
 *  [perthwebhosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perthwebhosting/)
 * (@perthwebhosting)
 * [2 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-traffic-for-wishlist/#post-18947533)
 * We have the same issues. We had over 30,000 hits in an hour with ?_wpnonce=xxxxxxxxxxx&
   add_to_wishlist=###### so what we did was:
 * edited the .htaccess file
 * 
   RewriteEngine On Block WooCommerce wishlist/add-to-cart bot patternRewriteCond%{
   QUERY_STRING} (^|&)_wpnonce=[a-f0-9]+(&|$) [NC]RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^
   |&)add_to_wishlist=[0-9]+(&|$) [NC]RewriteRule ^ – [F,L] Optional: block combined
   add-to-cart + wishlist requestsRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)add-to-cart=[
   0-9]+(&|$) [NC]RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)add_to_wishlist=[0-9]+(&|$) [
   NC]RewriteRule ^ – [F,L]
 * This makes all connections to go through to a 403 error page. We then saw a reduction
   but hits continued so we rerouted the DNS through cloudflare, turned on proxying
   and created a custom rule to only allow connections from certian countries. The
   load significantly dropped however, we host many sites and only one site is effected
   and the issue repeats every few weeks as we slowly remove these blocks. We do
   get the old connection still but not the 30k hits we saw. I think it’s a plugin
   issue and told our client they can no longer have it or she needs to find another
   provider.
 * There is no point blocking IP’s as you be going around in circles.

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