Hi there,
My site was locked down for the past week by my host. Not good.
Reason was due to significant CPU overload, caused by what I initially thought must have been a brute force attack on the admin login page.
I have since found out the excessive CPU was caused by the WP Visual Adverts widget making requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
The POST’ed data was:
action=advertsRefresh&nonce=a0da1d4dc3&id=rpadv_widget-2&index=
I’ve had no other plugin or widget cause such issues. I would like to know why WP Visual Adverts might be doing this, and what, if anything, can be done to resolve this issue?
Why is it necessary for your plugin to hit the admin-ajax.php script when general users are viewing pages on the site?
Thanks…
Jonathan
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Can you please alter this in the next release?
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