Rating: 1 star
I am sorry to the author that I have to give this one star review, but I feel it’s important to warn others about potential dangers of using this plugin.
Truth be told: I used this plugin for a long time and it was perfect. Then something happened after last update. The plugin stopped working, but I was too busy to figure that out. So I left it without deleting and forgot about it.
Then after some time Wordfence alerts me about admin login from another country with an administrative username I never created. Hacked!
I was alerted only one hour after they broke into my site, so I it wasn’t hard to undo the damage. That’s when I began to suspect that “Delete All Comments” was used as a backdoor to my site. I have a similar set up across several sites, but only the one with “Delete All Comments” was hacked.
I cleaned up their files and deleted “Delete All Comments”. For about 3 weeks I lived peacefully. But today again, Wordfence alerted me about administrator’s login but this time with MY username but from India! (I am not in India and I just woke up when I was alerted).
Thankfully, it happened so that only two minutes passed since their login and till I noticed the problem. Again, I rushed to create a new administrator and deleted the old one. They had not much time to do the damage, but they were fast enough because in my cPanel the latest modified file was in plugins folder and belonged to “Delete All Comments” (which was definitely deleted, so they installed it again!).
I cleaned up everything again but still need to spend some time figuring out how they were able to enter again this time. It must be that simply deleting “Delete All Comments” doesn’t remove everything that needs to be removed and leaves some type of a backdoor.
So no, don’t install it. Thanks to the author for all the type (about two years) that I was able to use it without problems, but now I wouldn’t recommend this plugin.
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Sadly I can’t endorse this plugin. I work for a UK based host that actively tracks compromises on customer based sites and the number of compromises that relate to this plugin is steadily growing. It’s entirely exploitable, allowing (people who know what they’re doing) the ability to upload unverified files that could do pretty much anything within reason. I’ve had an instance recently where a file was uploaded via a POST request to the plugins main file (delete-all-comments.php), and that’s then injected a user into the DB, allowing someone to login to the relevant admin area.
Until this has been verified fixed, or at least updated in some manner – do yourself a favour and stay the hell away.
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After Installing, someone install a php in my site and delete my theme.
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Deleted about 10,000 comments in a second. Thanks!
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Had to delete over 50,000 comments. Worked in seconds. Thanks!
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Got 24k comments to get rid off! This plugin is not working on two of our sites, the rest 38 sites it works ok tough!
Regards / Roland
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Works as advertised – thanks.
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Many thanks!
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excellent plugin. it does exactly what it says it will do and is easy to install and use. Thanks!
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Works perfectly for me. The spam was just too much for me to cope with. So I closed the blog to comments and used the “Delete All Comments” plugin to clean up.
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Yeah ! I love it. just one click.
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Perfect!
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gets the job done thanks
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deleted all my 35,000 comments in an instant. Great plugin
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maybe is because I don’t got wp_ in my table or the wordpress version. Just an error and nothing changed.
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Could not have found an easier, faster and more useful solution! Thanks for the great plugin.
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Just need to improve some load time. 30000+ comments took more than 1 hour. The good part is I refreshed the page by mistake but still pending work done.
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had 2500 spam comments,
click, done!
Rating: 5 stars
Works as advertised!
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Nice when somehow spam-filtering have been turned off for a while.
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Awesome plugin.
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Installed the plugin, selected delete all comments, poof, 6000+ spam messages were gone! Excellent!
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This plugin worked a treat… just deleted 36,000+ comments in a split second! Awesome, thanks ??
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within seconds all comments deleted.. great plugin!
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I started a website and blog on WordPress in November, without any formal instruction. So, I had no captcha on my comments. or my accounts. I had 54,000 comments and didn’t know how to make it stop. Deleting them seemed impossible because I couldn’t’ even delete a whole page at a time because it would error out. I was thinking it would take hours. I considered remaking all my posts and deleting the old versions. That would probably take a few hours. Then I tried google and this plug in came up. I downloaded the pug-in and when I told it to delete all my comments, it took 2 seconds to delete them all. Now I have a captcha and no spam comments.
Now, what to do with all those fake user accounts…..
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Just deleted 2,000 spam comments in a couple seconds. I had been deleting 50 at a time and it was taking forever. THANKS!!!!
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I don’t know about meta tables, which one reviewer mentioned, but I installed this plugin and deleted a few thousand spam comments instantly. Hats off to you, Ganesh!
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Worked as promised! In less than 10 seconds, deleted over 5,000 spam comments.
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And does what it promises of course.
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Great job, thanks.
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