CIDRAM vs Concise Antispam

CIDRAM (Classless Inter-Domain Routing Access Manager) is a PHP script designed to protect websites by blocking requests originating from IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic, including (but not limited to) traffic from non-human access endpoints, cloud services, spambots, scrapers, etc. It does this by calculating the possible CIDRs of the IP addresses supplied from inbound requests and then attempting to match these possible CIDRs against its signature files (these signature files contain lists of CIDRs of IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic); If matches are found, the requests are blocked. Requirements PHP >= 7.2.0 PCRE Updating Note: CIDRAM does not interact in any way with your database, and stores its own configuration settings, customisations, and related materials as flatfiles within its own directory. If you’ve not changed any of the default configuration settings and if you’re not using any customisations for this plugin, updating normally via the plugins dashboard, without need for any additional steps, should be sufficient and shouldn’t cause any problems. However, if you’ve modified the configuration settings for CIDRAM, or if you’ve made any customisations, I would recommend making backups of all of these prior to updating, due to that updating will overwrite all settings and customisations (after updating, you can then restore your customisations from your backups). Alternatively, if you update via the CIDRAM front-end updates page, all settings and customisations should be preserved.

Algorithm Plugin generates token on the backend side. Plugin adds hidden field for token in each form which will use method “POST” after rendering of the page. Plugin inserts token in the field after user’s interaction with site. For developers Antispam will automatically check submissions of the regular forms but ignores all AJAX requests. If you want to change this behaviour, you can use filter concise_antispam_need_to_validate_token. See example: Disable Antispam for some forms: add_filter("concise_antispam_need_to_validate_token", function($needToValidateToken) { if (!empty($_POST['do-not-check-antispam-token'])) { $needToValidateToken = false; } return $needToValidateToken; }); You can also always manually call \Concise\Antispam::validateTokenOrDie() in your custom handler. Formidable Forms integration For proper work disable the honeypot checking in the forms