Security & Privacy plugins ranked by health

344

plugins in Security & Privacy

62%

rated Healthy

Healthiest spam & bot protection plugins

Top 20 by Canary Score with 10,000+ active installs.

#	Plugin	Score	Status	Active installs	Last release	Support resolved
1	Disabled Source, Disabled Right Click and Content Protection	93	Healthy	10,000+	24 Oct 2026	100%
2	CryptX	92	Healthy	10,000+	11 Sep 2026	100%
3	Friendly Captcha for WordPress	91	Healthy	10,000+	20 Oct 2026	0%
4	Antispam Bee	90	Healthy	700,000+	23 Aug 2026	0%
5	Spam Protection \| Maspik	86	Healthy	30,000+	28 Oct 2026	80%
6	Email Address Encoder	78	Watch	100,000+	12 Apr 2026	50%

Most at risk popular plugins

At risk or Avoid, with 10,000+ active installs.

No popular Spam & Bot Protection plugins are rated At risk or Avoid right now. Plugins with 10,000+ installs that drop to those bands will appear here.

Recent events in Spam & Bot Protection

Last 90 days, from the Radar.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
WP Mailto Links - Protect Email Addresses: Tested up to WordPress 6.2.15, 9 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
WP Copy Protect: Tested up to WordPress 5.1.28, 20 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
WP Protect Content: Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, 2 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA: Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11, 4 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics): Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23, 15 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
reCAPTCHA in WP comments form: Tested up to WordPress 5.1.28, 20 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
FV Antispam: Tested up to WordPress 6.8.12, 3 major versions behind 7.1.4.

3 Nov 2026, Maintenance
Block Comment Spam Bots: Tested up to WordPress 6.5.14, 6 major versions behind 7.1.4.