by FolioVision 3.7 (3 reviews)

FV Antispam

Name: FV Antispam
Rating: 3.7 (3 reviews)
Author: FolioVision

FV Antispam is a powerful and simple antispam plugin. It moves any spambot comments directly to trash and allows Akismet to just deal with human spam.

FV Antispam ranks #7,282 among WordPress.org plugins with 800+ active installations, is #477 of 5,058 in the Security category, a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated Nov 11, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1.4)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 11 months ago Last Update on 11 Nov, 2025

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#477 of 5,058 in Security Top 10% by installs Downloads -8.8% this week

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Active Installs

800+

-15.9%

KW Avg Position

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Downloads

61.2K

+13 today

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74%

Review 3.7 out of 5

3.7 (3 reviews)

Next Milestone 900

Total Progress 92%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Nov 18, 2025

FV Antispam [fv-antispam] < 2.8

CVE-2025-66102 · Fixed in v2.8

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Nov 11, 2025
Requires WP: 3.5+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: FolioVision

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.7
Reviews: 3
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who use Akismet and want to manage comment spam. It moves machine-generated spambot comments directly to trash so Akismet only has to handle human-submitted spam, keeping the spam folder small enough to check for false positives.

Trashes spambot comments automatically
Low CPU server load
No configuration needed
Works alongside Akismet
Integrates with Filled In form processor
Custom questions for extra protection
Trashes spam pings and trackbacks
Reduces false positives in spam folder

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about FV Antispam

This way your spam folder is not overwhelmed with all the obvious spam messages. So you can look at this folder to check the spam messages detected by Akismet for example. And with new Wordpress versions, you can also check the trash folder, to make sure that our plugin works correctly and only deletes what's really a spam.

Same reason as above question, if a comments is already blacklisted, you don't want to think about it in spam folder. I have a problem with my Filled in forms and I suspect it's caused by your plugin

Live Comment Preview works, but you have to change the textarea ID in the live-comment-preview.php file on line 124. You can find out that the ID is by looking into the source code of the page with comment form on it. It will be an unique string of seemingly random numbers and letters like "a7391152e", so use that. jQuery Comment Preview is not so lightweight as the Live Comment Preview, but you can set the ID in options, so you don't have to edit files. I'm seeing two comment textareas with this plugin! Please check your template HTML and CSS for that element. Ideally it should use standard WP comment_form function and the same kind of CSS as the default template (TwentyTen). It needs to have id="comment". All the comments go into trash! Same as above - make sure you use standard WP functions for display of comment forms. When you check out HTML source of your article page with comments bellow it, you should see two textareas - one with ID comment and the other with ID consisting of random numbers and letters. The first one should be set to invisible by this plugin.