Spam Master

Description

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.

ONLINE DEMO

• Demo Link
• Search Threat DB
• New Threats
• Top Threats
• RBL Cluster Status

ONLINE TOOLS

• Manage your Stats Online
• Manage your Licenses Online

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Installation

1. Use the WordPress Installer, Updater.
2. Activate in the “Plugins” admin panel.
3. Visit the “Plugin Page Menu | Spam Master” to configure settings.
4. Spam Master Documentation

FAQ

Testing Spam Master

You can test your website spam submission in any form (login, registration, comment, contact form 7, woocommerce, buddypress, etc.) by using the email [email protected]. Afterwards check the plugin Firewall page.

Is Spam Master effective against spam bots?

Yes by 99.9% using Spam Master RBL Ip list, Bot list and Honeypot Version 2.

Is Spam Master effective against xmlrpc.php exploits?

Yes, Spam Master protects real time your xmlrpc.php file against attacks and exploits keeping the XML-RPC specification ready to be used.

What’s Spam Master High Availability Firewall or HAF?

The High Availability Firewall is a new concept to drastically improve your server resources like CPU, Ram Memory, Disk Space (io read/writes). At the same time HAF improves response times by reducing your bandwidth.
All this work is done by HAF blocking nasty bots, spam attempts and exploits like SQL injections and DOS.

What’s Spam Master Honeypot Version 2 technology?

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.

How do I get a Spam Master Free License?

Upon plugin installation click Generate Free License. You may also get a Free License in www.spammaster.org.

Malfunction 3 when generating a free license

This usually occurs because of your server php version. If that’s the case you can login towww.spammaster.org and get a free license.

Unstable Connection

If you are connecting to the Free server cluster you might, hopefully not, get an occasional Unstable Connection. We apologize for that, there’s probably a high demand of spam check requests to our free servers. We monthly pull out personal resources to invest in our free server cluster, sometimes they are short. To fix this click the Re-Sync button.

How do I check Spam Master Free Server Cluster status

You can check our server statistics with the following link FREE RBL Cluster Status.

Proxy Cache Control

If your server is behind a proxy you can activate Cache Control:no-cache for firewall redirects in Spam Master Tools page. Default is Off.

AMP content publishing

If you are using AMP you can activate AMP Check in Spam Master Tools page.

Can I disable the Protected by Spam Master signatures

The “Protected by Spam Master” signature text on login, registration, comment forms , contact forms and emails can be turned off in Spam Master Settings page, Protection Tools tab.

Can I disable the daily or weekly report emails

Yes, emails can be individually turned off in www.spammaster.org Licenses page, Tools, Configure button. Make sure to login or register with your attached email, to check your attached email please visit your website Spam Master Settings page.

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, the collected data is not shared with third party operators.

Spammaster.org RBL Databases

Spam Master munches, feeds and grows on spam ips, emails, domains and words. Join one of the top 5 world-wide, real-time online spam checking databases.

Saas Service

Spam Master is the first Saas with real-time checks provided (with free license). This service implies high demand, heavy duty server connections.

Is there a Pro License

Yes, Pro License is optional and it costs peanuts per year License. Pro license allows connections to our Premium Primary and Secondary server clusters with impressive connection times.

Support, Contact and Help

You can contact us and get support in the plugin Support page. Just make sure you insert a valid email so we can respond you.
You can also take a look at Spam Master Documentation

Reviews

The best spam control package

duckydan August 1, 2023

I tried out the free account and then bought the pro version. I installed the Drupal module and have had zero spam or fake accounts registered. I have never had any anti-spam package do that. It is an install-and-forget, which I love. Also, zero conflicts with other modules and zero JS errors. Love it!!!

Includes a mandatory firewall that will block your users

Sam Bull July 8, 2023 1 reply

I’ve tried to use this plugin for several years, but frequently something would go wrong and the author would tell me that there was nothing wrong, until I literally gave them a patch to fix the problem. This happened several times over the years. More recently, they added a “firewall” feature which degrades performance and increases load on a server (because apparently a firewall should send blocked users a redirect to itself, so you then get 20+ requests to WP for a blocked page, instead of 1 successful request). Furthermore, my clients kept getting many reports from users that the website was inaccessible due to this “firewall”. After contacting the author, they didn’t want to add anything in the UI to disable it, but they agreed to add a DB setting that would allow me to disable it. Another release a few weeks later, and they removed that option again, and then pretended we never agreed anything and refused to allow this dumb feature to be disabled. So, after many years, I’ve completely given up on this, it will cause all sorts of problems over time and I can’t recommend it at all anymore. All I wanted was a simple anti-spam plugin that worked without inline JS.

very good

dawod June 15, 2023 1 reply

very good and helpful

Great plugin – easy implementation

Penelope December 16, 2022 1 reply

Thanks for this wonderful plugin

Il a l’air de très bien fonctionner

marylineswiss December 24, 2021

Joyeux Noel ?? j’avais beaucoup de problème j’ai du rajouté des firewalls, des bloqueurs de login et aussi Spam Master, il y a toujours des petits malins qui tentent mais, ils sont bien ralentit. Par contre je n’ai pas trouvé c’est quoi la différence entre la version gratuite, et la version payante ?

So Far, So Good!

greenwebdesign January 31, 2021 1 reply

So far, I have been using this plugin on my main website for over a week, and it seems to work great. This week, I installed it on 30+ of my other websites and I will see how it goes! Thank You!!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

7.5.0

• Clean up
• Speed improvements

7.4.9

• Invitation should be outside malfunctions
• Changing invitation dates

7.4.8

• Clean up
• Speed improvements

7.4.7

• Fixing typo in invitation email
• Clean-up and speed up

7.4.6

• Removing security exemption
• Removing queue exemption
• Removing cart exemption
• New uninstall options

7.4.5

• Formatting Equals sign in wpforms
• Adding line breack to wpforms sig
• Removing time needle

7.4.4

• WPForms antibot update
• Clean up and speed improvments

7.4.3

• Action service should take in account firewall rule set
• Further speed improvements and log reduction
• Load reduction by removing duplicate checks in forms via HAF check
• Honeypot and antibot single check trigger
• Cleaning and removing legacy data collection in honeypot and HAF

7.4.2

• New whitelist management page in Spam Master Settings Protection Tools tab
• New buffer management page in Spam Master Settings Protection Tools tab
• Relaxed firewall rules should account for sniffers
• More scan exemptions from known origins

7.4.1

• Fine tunning Relaxed firewall rule set
• Actions should be exempt from status
• Actions should account for firewall rules
• More scan exemptions from known origins

7.4.0

• New firewall rules selectable via user input in Spam Master Settings Protection Tools tab
• Cleaning whitelists from buffer via cron
• New clean up rules for db improvements
• New editable settings related to new user input firewall rules
• Collect service user agent should respect substr
• Changing misleading text in admin firewall test page
• More scan exemptions from known origins
• New uninstall options

7.3.0

• Version 7.3.0 contained 10 releases (7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9).
• Faster speeds by exempting keys in system calls
• Processing count and stats in action
• Shorter signatures
• More scan exemptions from known origins

7.2.0

• Version 7.2.0 contained 10 releases (7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9).
• Improving re-syncs in online rbl disconnect status connections
• Improved API scanning limits
• More scans exemption from known origins

7.1.0

• Version 7.1.0 contained 10 releases (7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9).
• More scans exemption from known origins
• Changing dangerous blocks description
• New malfunctions, labels and description texts
• New alert email functions

7.0.0

• Version 7.0.0 contained 10 releases (7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9).
• Adding a new malfunction for Cloudflare WAF, firewall
• If empty REQUEST_SCHEME replace with encrypted https
• More scans exemption from known origins
• More scans exemption from known origins
• Editing help text for malfunction_4
• Tweaking key generator for malfunction_4 and malfunction_7 and display user
• Online RBL scans speed and bandwidth improvements

6.0.0

• Version 6.0.0 contained 10 releases (6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 6.0.9).
• Version 6.1.0 contained 9 releases (6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.1.5, 6.1.6, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 6.1.9).
• Version 6.2.0 contained 10 releases (6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 6.2.5, 6.2.6, 6.2.7, 6.2.8, 6.2.9).
• Version 6.3.0 contained 8 releases (6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7).
• Version 6.5.0 contained 2 releases (6.5.0, 6.5.1).
• Version 6.6.0 contained 21 releases (6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.6.6, 6.6.7, 6.6.8, 6.6.9, 6.6.10, 6.6.11, 6.6.12, 6.6.13, 6.6.14, 6.6.15, 6.6.16, 6.6.17, 6.6.18, 6.6.19, 6.6.20, 6.6.21).
• Version 6.7.0 contained 7 releases (6.7.0, 6.7.1, 6.7.2, 6.7.3, 6.7.4, 6.7.5, 6.7.6, 6.7.7).
• Version 6.8.0 contained 10 releases (6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, 6.8.3, 6.8.4, 6.8.5, 6.8.6, 6.8.7, 6.8.8, 6.8.9).
• Version 6.9.0 contained 10 releases (6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, 6.8.3, 6.8.4, 6.8.5, 6.8.6, 6.8.7, 6.8.8, 6.8.9).
• Implementing new database structure
• Adding new spam buffer / threats database
• Adding new plugin page to manage spam buffer / threats
• Adding new transients database
• Adding new plugin page to manage transients
• Adding new whitelist exemption database
• Adding new plugin page to manage whitelist exemption
• Adding new plugin analytics page to manage Statistics, Firewall, Registrations, Comments and Logs
• Database calls restructure
• New install / uninstall options
• Combining and reducing crons
• Fixing spam_master_cache_proxie warning
• Adding Spam Buffer check to Contact Form 7
• Adding daily automatic clean-up to Registrations Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page – Clean-up
• Adding daily automatic clean-up to Comments Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page – Clean-up
• Adding daily automatic clean-up to Contact-Form 7 Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page – Clean-up
• Adding daily automatic clean-up to Woocomerce Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page – Clean-up
• Adding daily automatic clean-up to System Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page – Clean-up
• API improvements
• PHP 8.1 Ready!
• New plugin paths
• New protection Lists
• Extra Protection Tools
• Adding daily automatic clean-up
• For more info please check the change log online.

5.0

• Version 5.0 contained 4 releases (5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3).
• Version 5.1 contained 11 releases (5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.1.6, 5.1.7, 5.1.8, 5.1.9, 5.1.10, 5.1.11).
• Version 5.2 contained 10 releases (5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.2.9).
• Version 5.3 contained 9 releases (5.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.5, 5.3.6, 5.3.7, 5.3.8, 5.3.9, 5.3.10).
• Version 5.4 contained 10 releases (5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5, 5.4.6, 5.4.7, 5.4.8, 5.4.9).
• Version 5.5 contained 10 releases (5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.7, 5.5.8, 5.5.9).
• Version 5.6 contained 10 releases (5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.6.8, 5.6.9).
• For more info please check the changelog online.

4.0

• Version 4 contained 27 releases (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, 4.3.6.1, 4.3.6.2, 4.3.6.3, 4.3.6.4, 4.3.6.5, 4.4.0, 4.4.1.0, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.1.2, 4.4.1.3, 4.4.1.4, 4.4.1.5, 4.4.1.6, 4.4.1.7, 4.4.4, 4.4.5).
• For more info please check the changelog online.

3.0

• Version 3 contained 1 releases (3.0). For more info please check the changelog online.
• TechGasp Framework V2 Implementation

2.0

• Version 2 contained 5 releases (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.5).
• For more info please check the changelog online.

1.0

• Alpha release
• Adding Buttons
• Start coding