BotPlug is designed to help you cozy and shield your WordPress website from malicious bots & crawlers and brute-force attacks which rely upon making repeated requests.
Examples of this form of connect are the notorious ‘xmlrpc’ problem – even though the vulnerability in WordPress is now constant, the repetitive and competitive unsolicited mail traffic can nonetheless motive serious troubles.
Through slowing down, rate-restricting, redirecting and/or blockading requests from IP Addresses which have made an excessive amount of requests in a quick period of time (or via displaying them a CAPTCHA to ensure they're human), BotPlug reduces the weight to your server from these undesirable traffic – and helps protect you against automated attacks which rely