oopspam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA)

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231 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 182 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

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Crossed into this band 11 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ ericbonetti2017

   4mo ago

   Excellent plugin and great dev team. We’re a small nonprofit that helps people who have been abused. Needless to say, we get some really nasty spam — OOOPSpam completely eliminated this, since most of it was coming in via addresses associated with VPNs. Highly recommend

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2. ★★★★★ LAdreamer

   6mo ago

   The plugin did exactly what it said it would, stopped the carding attack I was receiving on the site.

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3. ★★★★★ Chris McElroy SEO

   6mo ago

   Sorry. I’m all for developers getting paid for hard work and updates and all of that, but $40/mo like for the smallest plan, just not stacking another paid plugin for that amount. If I had known, such as it being part of the description here, I wouldn’t have even installed it and registered an account and all of that.

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4. ★★★★★ Woodcock02

   12mo ago

   I noticed a missing country in this amazing indispensable plugin, but wasn’t expecting an almost instant reply – and a fix !! The next day an update was issued and the problem sorted. Incredible support Thank You

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5. ★★★★★ customerservice2018

   1.1y ago

   So far, I’m very happy with the results I’m seeing. I had been receiving credit card testing attempts about every 15 minutes, but I haven’t seen one in the past couple of hours. I’ll update my review in the near future with (hopefully) even more positive news.

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6. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   1.1y ago

   Reduced our order spam to zero after a spate of attacks. Excellent product and very easy to set up and use.

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7. ★★★★★ Kim Bydlon

   1.2y ago

   Although the very limited 40 API calls for the Free plan is pretty low given all the spam-my crazies in the world, the ridiculous email notifications our WP admin(s) used to receive as a result of spam submissions seems to be improved. That limit does get reached particularly quickly and then the constant notification box at the top of every WP-Admin page (that can’t be turned off without deactivating the plugin entirely) is a bit of nuisance, but the function does seem to be excellent for what little use we have gotten out of it thus far! Currently considering an upgraded plan, and we would encourage you to do the same by giving the Free plan a try first and seeing the difference it makes!

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8. ★★★★★ americanshowerglass

   1.3y ago

   Solve our problem with spam!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.75 IMPROVEMENT: Improved meta-logs collection in the WooCommerce integration. IMPROVEMENT: Admin notice dismissals are now remembered. 1.2.75
2. — Version 1.2.74 NEW: Form ID in the Form and Valid Entries tables now displays the form title/name on hover. IMPROVEMENT: Rate limiting now checks ongoing requests to help prevent race conditions. FIX: The timezone setting now uses UTC 1.2.74
3. — Version 1.2.73 NEW: Added a new date range filter to the Form and Spam Entries tables FIX: Fixed a double time zone conversion for the time zone setting. 1.2.73
4. — Version 1.2.72 NEW: Added “Undo” action to reverse spam and non-spam reported submissions IMPROVEMENT: Pagination is preserved when reporting entries in Valid and Spam Entries tables FIX: Added additional privilege validation checks fo 1.2.72
5. — Version 1.2.71 NEW: Added “Entries table timezone” setting to customize timezone display for logs, and spam reports. IMPROVEMENT: Small UI improvements 1.2.71
6. — Version 1.2.70 NEW: Added support for Elementor Atomic Forms 1.2.70

All 4 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (1.2.88). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched High · 7.2 OOPSpam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA) <= 1.2.62 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-03-23 CVE-2026-32544 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.2.62 Patched in 1.2.63
2. Patched Medium · 5.3 OOPSpam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA) <= 1.2.53 - Unauthenticated IP Header Spoofing ↗
   2025-10-30 CVE-2025-12094 Protection Mechanism Failure Affects <= 1.2.53 Patched in 1.2.54
3. Patched Medium · 5.4 OOPSpam Anti-Spam <= 1.1.44 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via empty_ham_entries and empty_spam_entries ↗
   2023-06-21 CVE-2023-35913 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects < 1.1.45 Patched in 1.1.45
4. Patched Medium · 5.5 OOPSpam Anti-Spam <= 1.1.35 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-01-17 CVE-2023-22716 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.1.35 Patched in 1.1.36

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-12-09 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-12-08 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-12-07 5K+ → 6K+ up after 104 days in tier
4. 2025-08-25 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2025-08-22 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-08-21 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2025-08-18 5K+ → 4K+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2025-08-16 4K+ → 5K+ up after 139 days in tier

Competes with

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oopspam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA): 6K+ active installs, 4.9★ (51 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/oopspam-anti-spam