Comment Blacklist Updater

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 94% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

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1. ★★★★★ Kakemphaton

   2.1y ago

   This plugin is super useful, and even works on multisite (aka. WordPress Network) installations. It never failed me, and I keep installing it on more websites. Thank you! 🙂

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2. ★★★★★ fuvavi

   2.9y ago

   This plugin use wp_die() detroy my site. This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by fuvavi.

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3. ★★★★★ Ashutosh

   3.5y ago

   This plugin needs loads of love. It makes keeping my sites up-to-date with splorp’s blacklist completely hassle-free, and also allows adding custom blacklist phrases. Easily catches 99.9% spam in comments and CF7 when combined with Cloudflare bot detection and simple honeypot fields. I don’t miss Akismet!

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4. ★★★★★ hmclean

   5.1y ago

   Using this plugin to manage Grant Hutchinson’s Comment Blacklist for WordPress and in conjunction with the Gravity Forms and Gravity Wiz GP Blocklist, spam that was inundating my contact forms is virtually gone.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.4 Comment Blacklist Updater <= 1.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via update_blacklist_manual ↗
   2023-09-23 CVE-2023-44147 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 1.2.0 Patched in 1.2.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.1

Translated into 3 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-06-21 2K+ → 1K+ down after 527 days in tier
2. 2023-01-11 1K+ → 2K+ up after 59 days in tier
3. 2022-11-13 2K+ → 1K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Block List Updater 4K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Image CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 and WPForms by HookAndHook (DSGVO/GDPR) 80K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• C Cookies for Comments 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• T Throws SPAM Away 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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Comment Blacklist Updater: 1K+ active installs, 4.8★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/comment-blacklist-updater