Title: Spam Posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Spam Posts

 *  Resolved [Chris_Sayasane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris_sayasane/)
 * (@chris_sayasane)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/)
 * My website has been attacked by some kind of spam bot which posts random content
   repeatedly. The bot is able to use my admin user account to create these posts.
   Has anyone encountered this issue?
 * Things I’ve done to combat this issue:
    1) Hostgator full website restore. No
   dice and they couldnt find anything malicious. 2) Changed all of my associated
   passwords to strong, randomly created passwords. 3) Installed a bunch of security
   plug-ins including stealth log-in which should mask my wp-admin log in, Akismet,
   Sweetcaptcha, Word Fence, and has had the website scanned etc. no dice. 4) Scanned
   my computer with Symantec Endpoint. 5) Google says the website does not have 
   anything malicious on it.
 * So I’m thinking its something with the this specific plug-in or something that
   is hiding very well on my computer or phone…
 * My site is TYNIT.com, but I have a maintenance page up because the spam is out
   of hand. I can send you examples if wanted.
 * Please Help!!!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/#post-4678026)
 * I can’t think of anything with our plugin here that would allow such a thing,
   and this is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this happening.
 *  Thread Starter [Chris_Sayasane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris_sayasane/)
 * (@chris_sayasane)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/#post-4678035)
 * Thanks for the fast response.
 * I’ve done some searching, and I can only seem to find captcha type anti-spam 
   plug-ins for comment/email/contact spam, but I can’t seem to find anything that
   might help with “spam posts”. Do you have any experience with a plug-in that 
   would stop spam custom type posts?
 * …sorry if it’s a dumb question I paid a developer to help with the website and
   dont know too much about custom type posts.
 * Appreciate it.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/#post-4678041)
 * Honestly, if you have spam/spammers that are finding a way to create posts, you
   have a bigger problem than you may realize. CPTUI doesn’t add any ways to publish
   posts, it just registers the post types/taxonomies.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/#post-4678042)
 * Showed the thread to a friend and he suggested trying out [http://wordpress.org/plugins/audit-trail/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/audit-trail/)
   to help diagnose a bit.
 *  Thread Starter [Chris_Sayasane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris_sayasane/)
 * (@chris_sayasane)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/#post-4678045)
 * Thanks! All suggestions are welcome at this point.

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 * Last reply from: [Chris_Sayasane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris_sayasane/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-posts-3/#post-4678045)
 * Status: resolved