Title: plugin hacked?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# plugin hacked?

 *  Resolved [danperis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danperis/)
 * (@danperis)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hacked-8/)
 * Hi Josh,
    thanks for your work. Everyday spammers try to register in my forum.
   If I try to register (with a new user name), your plugin works: I am not allowed
   to login, and the new user name is kept in the “pending status” till the admin
   approves the registration. However, since about a week, some spammers hacked 
   this process, and they get approval without my permission. I am also using the“
   The Stop Spammer Registrations” Plugin which helps me monitoring how the spammers
   work: they firstly register with IP address “A”, then they try to login from “
   A”, then they even process the “activate/…” link (which is automatically sent
   by email) from an IP address “B”. After that, they access the login page from
   an other IP address “C”. What puzzles me is that I find the (spammer) user account
   among the approved ones, and not in the “pending” ones. Any clues? Many thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/)

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 *  [Josh Harrison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picklewagon/)
 * (@picklewagon)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hacked-8/#post-5790843)
 * I will need to research this. I’ll let you know what I find out.

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 * Last reply from: [Josh Harrison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picklewagon/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hacked-8/#post-5790843)
 * Status: resolved