Referrers not being set?

  • I installed the GoodReviews plugin on two of my sites recently and my ISP immediately shut the sites down (like, within the first hour post-installation of GoodReviews) for security reasons because of excessive hits on one of the security rules: a referrer was not being set when attempting to login, which makes it look like a spambot is attacking the sites. Because I host 4 sites on this shared server it wound up taking down all 4 sites.

    The ISP has temporarily disabled the rule, but I don’t want to do this long term in case of a real attack. Is this a problem with GoodReviews, or with the GoodReads API itself?

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author jhanbackjr

    (@jhanbackjr)

    Hello, karcher.

    Thanks for trying GoodReviews. There should not be anything about the plugin or the Goodreads API that would cause the issue you experienced. GoodReviews does not hook into WordPress logins at all. The only thing it does is retrieve and display information from the Goodreads API.

    Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

    James

    Thread Starter karcher

    (@karcher)

    Ok. Let me see if I can get more data from my ISP on what the offending traffic was, or run some tests with/without the plug-in enabled and see if I can get you more information. This may take me a few days.

    Kat

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