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Thanks for the thread, this happened to our site last night at 4am. After a few hundred orders I woke up and blocked the IP and country. 2 hours later I woke up again this time I felt like I was battling the bot directly. I would block the IP and 10 mins later new IP new country. It’s heavy in India, Singapore, China, and Russia though. I use a CDN cloudflare, the pro $20 per month version. I highly recommend that. Cloudflare pro allowed me to add lots of security stuff that helped. Isolate the IPs that went to checkout, cart, time frame last 30 mins. You can block by country, ISP provider called ASN, I blocked the continent of Asia, Africa, etc. Then they jumped to France, Germany, Belgium, I blocked Europe, now they can only us the US and they seem to be having a harder time with that, the orders come in much slower when it has a US IP. They did a total of 2200 failed order and not one went through. Strip is my merchant service and they blocked all saying high threat.

these are the steps that helped me.

Having cloudflare CDN I clicked the under attack button on the home page, that stops it immediately, I’ll undo that in 2 days. Under security, WAF, block by IP, ASN, continent, etc, click on BOTS, then enable super bots fight, block definitely automated bots, allow verified bots, and enable Javascript detections, then under settings, click I’m under attack, set the challenge passage to 15 mins, enable browser integrity check, and privacy pass support. Under network enable ip geolocation, go to traffic tab. 30 min tine frame. From here you can find the attackers IP, data centers, ASN, and more. Start blocking these in the WAF tab. Attacks last uo to 2 days. They usually will come back to you again in a month and again in a year so make improvements after the attack. Also make sure ALL plug-ins, woocommerce, WordPress, etc are all updated to the latest versions. Good luck to you!

I went from 19.4 to 19.5.1 and it still broke my site. I don’t think .5.1 fixed the entire issue. I never updated to 19.5. Went straight from 19.4 to 19.5.1.
I have yoast, Yoast premium, and woo. all 3. First, one to try to update was regular yoast. All other plugins and WP on my site are current. Hope that helps to fix 19.5.1

Glad I never trust autoupdate, Not a fan of paying anyone to be a beta tester. Yet this one still got me.

Thank you for your reply. I just renewed my Yoastpro + woocommerce yoast SEO subscription, I already emailed them to cancel and get a refund.
I will officially be switching over this week!

Yoat SEO pro left out product schema and I just noticed that now, so for a year I had page schema for a product. I thought having their woocommerce seo kit would have seen and changed that but it doesn’t.

I hope that a lot of attention has been paid to schema markup so I dont need another additional schema plugin on top of the RankMath in order to get the greatest amount of markup and richtxt.

Lastly, I just mentioned how Yoast SEO has had many MAJOR bugs and has ruined my site several times, once killing traffic for months before they figured out that the update autoapplied a bunch of bad options. Well as luck would have it today I updated Yoast and Fatal Error white screen of death lol And I updated to the version that came out to FIX the original version where updating would cause a fatal error. So they knew of the issue, came out with a fixed update, and I still got clobbered. lol
Took an hour to restore my site and database, in which I lost about 5 sales. (8 sales per hour is our average). I wish I switched over to RM yesterday….It would have paid for itself already!

Thanks guys I am so glad to have found an SEO plugin that actually helps with SEO and not just metadata. It should be called YoastMeta not YoastSEO! Looking forward to installing it ASAP. I read the comparison guide and am impressed

For me, I just updated to CF7 5.6.1 and WP 6.0.1 today and this is the first time in 2.5 years that my site’s contact form started working again lol 1 of the 2 updates I did today definitely did something. What WP are you running. I was getting a missing token error all that time and now I’m not. So please don’t fix this where it stops working for us all again and then our “ill-begotten themes” get blamed again lol

My life was just fine before the whole recapturev3 debacle and I’m happy to be able to use CF7 once again.