by carticy 5 (5 reviews)

Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing

Name: Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing
Rating: 5.0 (5 reviews)
Author: carticy

Blocks scripted checkout attempts that never loaded your checkout page, including card testing bots that skip CAPTCHA. Classic and block checkout.

Checkout Shield for WooCommerce ranks #9,909 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #1,556 of 14,124 in the E-commerce category, a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Aug 30, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.4.0 Current Version v1.4.0

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 30 Aug, 2026

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#1,556 of 14,124 in E-commerce Top 25% by installs Downloads -25.8% this week

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.4.0
Last Updated: Aug 30, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 8.0 or higher
Author: carticy

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WooCommerce store owners dealing with card testing attacks and automated checkout bots. It solves the problem of bots bypassing CAPTCHA by sending requests directly to the Store API, blocking them via stateless browser session verification.

4 Protection Modes
Activity Log with timestamps and IPs
IP Whitelist with CIDR support
API Key Authentication
Proxy Support
Block Checkout support
HPOS Compatible
WooCommerce Logging integration

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing

No. Validation happens locally in microseconds. No external API calls, no waiting on third-party services.

It is built so it cannot. Before blocking anything it waits until it has seen a checkout on your store carry its proof successfully. After that it watches its own proof: if a theme update or a page builder ever rebuilds your checkout so the proof stops rendering on it, the plugin notices that on its own, keeps letting real shoppers through on the cookie their browser holds, and shows you an admin notice saying exactly what to fix, all while your store keeps selling. If you still want to watch first, Learning mode logs what would be blocked without blocking anyone. The Pro protections are built the same careful way. Auto-banning is off until you turn it on, only ever kicks in past a failure limit you set, never touches a whitelisted address, and every ban expires by itself. Registration protection lets a real browser through on its proof and only stops sign-ups that never loaded the form, so a shared office or campus connection can't be locked out by a busy afternoon.

Almost certainly not. Protection stays inactive until one checkout on your store has been seen working, so a test request sent before that will pass. Open your own checkout page and submit it once, then try your test again. Your dashboard says which state the store is in.

Yes. Works with both classic checkout and the newer block-based checkout.

All major gateways work normally. Payment confirmations from gateways aren't affected by checkout validation.

Not if you configure it. Add your frontend's server IP to the whitelist, or use API key authentication. Both options let legitimate automated requests through.

Up to you. This plugin catches bots that CAPTCHA misses (the ones hitting your API directly). You can use both together, or drop CAPTCHA entirely to reduce checkout friction.

Two causes, and the dashboard tells you which one you have. Something is reusing one checkout visit. It loaded your checkout page for real and is reusing the proof it was given. That proof is valid, so this plugin passes it, exactly as it would for a shopper who retried a declined card. Look at "Repeated payment failures from one checkout visit" on the dashboard widget: several failures against a single visit inside a day is what card testing looks like. Open the Checkout Shield menu, then Settings, to set a limit that turns those submissions away, and in Pro have the source IP banned for a while once it

arriving at all. The orders were never placed through your checkout at all. If someone has gained access to your WordPress they can create orders directly, and no plugin that inspects checkout submissions can see that happen. Signs worth checking are administrator accounts you do not recognise, posts you did not publish, and recently modified plugin or theme files. Neither case means protection is off. Check the "blocked" count on the dashboard widget to see what it is stopping.

The Checkout Shield screen is the quick answer. Its Overview tells you whether protection is armed yet and how many attempts it has stopped, updating as they happen, and the same figures appear on the dashboard widget. It counts what happened three ways: blocked, passed, and not checked. "Not checked" means a submission was let through because the check was not yet trustworthy. That is kept separate from "passed" on purpose, so a bot-shaped request is never counted as a happy customer. In Pro, the Activity tab lists each blocked attempt as it lands, and the Protection Test button lets you fire a real one at your own store and watch it get stopped. For the raw detail behind any of it, go to WooCommerce, then Status, then Logs, and filter by "carticy-checkout-shield".