Registration Spammed / Flooded

  • mudanoman

    (@mudanoman)


    19 years ago

    My site was recently bombarded by over 6000+ registrations from a [email protected] email address. I am curious how I would go about deleting all these registrations (deleting via database?) and is there any means to preventing this. Thanks, Ivan

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  • To remove …
    I would first backup the _users table
    Then copy every single part of the FIRST user – which is you.
    Make sure you have it all, then empty that table and ONLY that table. Not the whole DB, JUST that one table.
    Then put your details back into the first entry just as it was..

    That sound doable or just confusing ?
    Do ask more if you need !

    (and delete wp-register.php)

    Thread Starter mudanoman

    (@mudanoman)

    podz,

    Thanks. I deleted the 6000 rows via phpmyadmin. Now to figure out a way to prevent these evil bots from registering. I notice there are captchas for comments but is there one for the registration process.

    Best,

    Ivan

    Thread Starter mudanoman

    (@mudanoman)

    Just for reference…

    I ran this query in phpmyadmin:

    DELETE FROM wp_users WHERE ID > XXX

    XXX is the number of the last valid user id before the attack.

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