There’s been a huge explosion in hacking attempts involving spam in recent months, including everything from exploiting XSS, brute force, XML-RPC, CSRF, and DDoS.
Unfortunately, spam is a fact of life when you have a WordPress website. Since the CMS is so popular, it naturally attracts an increased number of hacking attempts since there are more sites to infect than any other platforms.
If you haven’t set up some kind of spam fighting solution on your site, it’s only a matter of time before you get hacked. Fortunately, there are many quality plugins available, both free and premium, to help you stop spam in its tracks.
So take your pick from the collection below. You might want to use just one or combine them as part of a full-proof spam protection strategy.