Plugin
MFX Sentinel
Anti-spam protection for WordPress that doesn't slow your site down.
Features
- Malicious form submission blocking
- Fake registration detection
- REST /sentinel/health endpoint for portal monitoring
- Honeypot + timing heuristics
- Text domain loaded for i18n support
- Zero-configuration — works on activation
MFX Sentinel is an anti-spam layer that sits in front of every form on a WordPress site — contact forms, registration, comments, WooCommerce checkout. It refuses malicious submissions before they touch the database.
How it works
Sentinel combines three signals:
- Honeypot fields — hidden inputs that real users never touch. A filled-in honeypot is an instant reject.
- Timing heuristics — submissions that arrive within a few hundred milliseconds of page load are almost always scripted.
- Request fingerprinting — patterns in headers, user-agent, and request shape that correlate with known spam tooling.
None of this requires a captcha. Real users never see Sentinel working.
Portal integration
Sentinel exposes a REST endpoint at /wp-json/sentinel/health that the MoonFactory portal polls every heartbeat cycle. The endpoint reports:
- Plugin version
- Last-blocked-submission timestamp
- Block count over the last 24 hours
- Database health for its blocklist cache
When the portal detects health degradation on any client site, it opens a support ticket automatically.
Installation
Sentinel is deployed and kept up-to-date automatically on every MoonFactory-managed site. There is nothing to install by hand — the portal handles distribution, activation, and version upgrades on behalf of the client.