Title: [Plugin: WP Wall] Possible exploit
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Wall] Possible exploit

 *  [Nicholas Garofalo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eidolonnight/)
 * (@eidolonnight)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/)
 * I’m currently using WP 2.7 (not available in the drop down) and the latest version
   of WP Wall. Today, my hosting account was disabled due to performance issues 
   caused by this plugin. I’m not sure what happened, possibly an exploit of some
   kind, but Blue Host (my web host) was quite positive that the activity was originating
   from this plugin. Hope someone knows what’s up. My members really love WP Wall.

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 *  [producer82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/producer82/)
 * (@producer82)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934167)
 * Weird, I use BlueHost and the same thing happened to me today. I haven’t change
   anything with my site lately, I’m using WordPress 2.5.1 with WP Wall 1.3
 * I came home and my site was suspended, so I talked to BlueHost and they said 
   that the plugin WP Wall was “causing performance issues on the server” and I 
   had to disable it. No idea what is causing this all of a sudden! A site without
   WP Wall doesn’t feel complete lol, I hope we can get some help.
 *  [buileminh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buileminh/)
 * (@buileminh)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934168)
 * Thanks God I have not installed it 🙂
    I am using BlueHost too! Welcome to my
   blog: [http://blog.buileminh.info](http://blog.buileminh.info)
 *  [THE11thROCK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the11throckgmailcom/)
 * (@the11throckgmailcom)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934182)
 * Is this exploit true? Or is it because your WP versions are not 2.7? Can anybody
   confirm this? Is there a fix for it? Thanks
 *  [Vladimir Prelovac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freediver/)
 * (@freediver)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934184)
 * There is no ‘exploit’ related to WP Wall. Performance issues may appear if interactive
   chat option is turned on and set to too low value.
 *  [THE11thROCK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the11throckgmailcom/)
 * (@the11throckgmailcom)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934185)
 * What’s the ideal value then? Can you give a safe value below 60? Thanks.
 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * (@wpsec)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934189)
 * You probably shouldn’t set it below 45. This really depends on how much traffic
   your site is getting. If you’ve got 100 people sitting there on your site and
   WP Wall is refreshing every 45 seconds then that’s 100 hits on the server ever
   45 seconds – quite a lot for a shared hosting account. Were it me, I’d disable
   the refresh feature and maybe add a note that people should refresh the page 
   to get updates. Or maybe I’d change hosting companies.

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 * 6 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-wall-possible-exploit/#post-934189)
 * Status: not resolved

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