{"id":2417,"date":"2015-04-02T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:23:18","slug":"can-fake-reviews-for-a-wordpress-plugin-get-more-obvious-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/can-fake-reviews-for-a-wordpress-plugin-get-more-obvious-than-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Fake Reviews For a WordPress Plugin Get More Obvious Than This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While taking a look into a reported vulnerability in a WordPress plugin recently we noticed\u00a0a rather glaring example of the use of fake reviews. First and foremost there were almost as many reviews as active installations\u00a0of the plugin:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2418 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/plugin-review-count.png\" alt=\"Active Installs: 10+, 7 five Star Reviews\" width=\"169\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unless the very few people using it really liked the plugin, the number of reviews is way out of line with other plugins (where there usually is one review per one hundred or more active installs).<\/p>\n<p>The other big tip-off was that all the reviews occurred on one day (two days after the plugin was released):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2419 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fake-reviews.png\" alt=\"fake-reviews\" width=\"366\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fake-reviews.png 366w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fake-reviews-113x300.png 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 85vw, 366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of those reviews was from someone who was supposed to have used it while running WordPress 1, which seems quite unlikely, to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking a look into a reported vulnerability in a WordPress plugin recently we noticed\u00a0a rather glaring example of the use of fake reviews. First and foremost there were almost as many reviews as active installations\u00a0of the plugin: Unless the very few people using it really liked the plugin, the number of reviews is way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/can-fake-reviews-for-a-wordpress-plugin-get-more-obvious-than-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can Fake Reviews For a WordPress Plugin Get More Obvious Than This?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}