Math Captcha Security - 1.0.1

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🚀 RELEASE NOTES (v1.0.1)

# 🎉 Math Captcha Pro Security Suite – v1.0.0

## 🚀 Initial Release

We are excited to introduce the first stable release of **Math Captcha Pro Security Suite**, a powerful WordPress security plugin designed to protect your website from bots, brute-force attacks, and malicious API usage.

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## ✨ New Features

### 🧮 Math CAPTCHA System
- Lightweight math-based CAPTCHA protection
- Secures:
  - Login
  - Registration
  - Password reset
  - WooCommerce forms
  - Contact Form 7
  - Elementor forms

- Secure implementation:
  - HMAC-based stateless validation
  - 120-second expiration
  - One-time token usage

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### 🌐 REST API Protection
- Protects sensitive WordPress REST endpoints
- Blocks unauthorized API access attempts
- CAPTCHA validation required for authentication requests

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### 📊 Security Analytics Dashboard
- View total CAPTCHA attempts
- Track success vs failure rate
- Identify top attacking IP addresses
- Detailed request logs with timestamps

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### 🚫 IP Blocking System
- Automatic IP blocking after repeated failed attempts
- Rate limiting using WordPress transients
- Manual IP block management via admin panel

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### ⚙️ Admin Configuration Panel
- Enable/disable features individually:
  - WordPress forms
  - WooCommerce
  - Contact Form 7
  - Elementor
  - REST API protection
- CAPTCHA difficulty levels:
  - Easy
  - Medium
  - Hard

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## 🔐 Security Improvements

- Hash-based CAPTCHA validation (HMAC)
- Replay attack prevention
- Timing attack protection using `hash_equals`
- Input sanitization and output escaping
- IP-based abuse detection system
- REST API hardening

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## 🧩 Compatibility

- WordPress Core
- WooCommerce
- Contact Form 7
- Elementor Pro
- WordPress REST API

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## 🐛 Known Limitations

- No login URL hiding (removed for stability)
- Requires correct configuration for REST API protection

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## 🙏 Thank You

Thank you for using Math Captcha Pro Security Suite.  
More advanced features (AI detection, real-time dashboards) coming soon!