Spam Defender – Review Captcha for WooCommerce

Spam Defender – Review Captcha for WooCommerce helps you reduce spam product reviews by adding a captcha verification before review submission.

With this plugin, customers must solve a captcha before submitting a review, which ensures that only genuine users can leave feedback on your WooCommerce products.

Features: * Support for both Google reCAPTCHA v2 and Cloudflare Turnstile. * Adds captcha to WooCommerce product review forms. * Blocks spam bots from auto-submitting fake reviews. * Lightweight and easy to use. * No coding knowledge required. * Compatible with latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce.

This plugin provides a simple but effective solution to keep your product reviews section clean and trustworthy.

External services

This plugin uses external services to protect the WooCommerce product review submission form from spam and automated bots. Depending on your configuration, it connects to one of the following:

Google reCAPTCHA

1. Frontend Integration: It loads the reCAPTCHA JavaScript API from https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js on the product page to display the captcha challenge.
2. Server-Side Verification: When a user submits a review, the plugin sends the reCAPTCHA response token to Google’s verification endpoint (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify) along with the Secret Key and the user’s IP address to confirm the validity of the captcha challenge.

• Service: Google reCAPTCHA
• Purpose: Spam and bot protection for WooCommerce product reviews.
• Data Sent: Reviewer’s IP address and reCAPTCHA response token.
• Terms of Service and Privacy Policy:
  • Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
  • Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Cloudflare Turnstile

1. Frontend Integration: It loads the Turnstile JavaScript API from https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js on the product page to render the Turnstile widget.
2. Server-Side Verification: When a user submits a review, the plugin sends the Turnstile response token to Cloudflare’s verification endpoint (https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify) along with the Secret Key and the user’s IP address to confirm the validity of the Turnstile challenge.

• Service: Cloudflare Turnstile
• Purpose: Privacy-friendly, non-intrusive spam and bot protection.
• Data Sent: Reviewer’s IP address and Turnstile response token.
• Terms of Service and Privacy Policy:
  • Cloudflare Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
  • Cloudflare Website Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/