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Stop Comment Spam

by pedjas · Security

Also makes 1 other plugin · 310+ installs across the portfolio →

Stop Comment Spam treats any comment by predefined rules to stop spam. It is supposed to be used as additional measure for any other antispam tool esp …

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
60 Health · C
Maintenance 35/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

60 health vs 64 average across 997 Security plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

69 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 43/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 614 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+37% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

112

now · peak 241

11230d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Stop Comment Spam · #10324 you En Spam · #9056 Anti-spam Reloaded · #5172 Batch Comment Spam D · #6889

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

373per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

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

0

releases in the last 12 months

10.1y ago

latest release · vassets

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

assets · 10.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.5 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈350

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

Install history · since 2016-12-24 · 1,390 observations

300Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
0.5.4
Last updated
1.7y ago
Added
2016-07-28 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
2.6.1
Tested up to
6.7.7
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Natalya
    5.7y ago

    A great addition to Aksimet. I enter a list of stop words and there are no more comments and links that Aksimet does not consider spam. I hope that the developer will continue to support the plugin.

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  2. Roberto Conde
    6.3y ago

    Un plugin sencillo que hace lo que dice y solo lo que dice, cosa que se agradece en estos tiempos. Estaba sufriendo un ataque de spam a los comentarios con la misma frase “Muchas gracias. ?Como puedo iniciar sesion?”. Lo instalé, añadí la línea “Como puedo iniciar sesión”, y listo. Muchas gracias, Predrag.

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  3. rinustp
    8.4y ago

    I chose this plugin instead of Akismet. I have not received any more spam since installation. It works great! Thank you for this spamcatcher I use thema ‘Mantra’.

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  4. Anonymous User 5731870
    9.6y ago

    Finally I have found a spam fighting plugin which is easy to handle, and which works like promised. I had tried different solutions, which did not seem to do anything or were disappointing by their weak functionalities. But this plugin here (Stop Comment Spam) is very easy to configure, because all you have to do is to type in your bad keywords. And it is very effective: It rejects comments which contain one or more of the defined words from the filter – the comments do not pass through to your blog, which means, they are not put into the moderation, so you don’t have to delete all that annoying stuff. Fantastic, and exactly what I was searching for! Thanks for your good work! This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Anonymous User 5731870. This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Anonymous User 5731870.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

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

  1. 2025-01-16 CVE-2025-23826 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 0.5.3 Patched in 0.5.4

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-29 400+ → 300+ down after 627 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-10 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  3. 2024-08-08 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-07 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-05 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-08-04 500+ → 400+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-31 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-30 500+ → 400+ down after 5 days in tier

Competes with

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