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Protect your Laravel + Livewire application from spam bots and security vulnerabilities.

What does this package do?

This package protects your Laravel application in three ways:

1. 🛡️ Blocks Spam Bots

Automatically blocks automated spam bots (like Python scripts, curl, wget) from accessing your website. No more spam form submissions!

2. 🔍 Finds Security Holes in Livewire

Scans your Livewire components and tells you which properties attackers could manipulate. For example, if you have public $isAdmin = false, an attacker could change it to true in their browser!

3. 🔇 Silences Sentry Errors from Bot Attacks

When bots manipulate Livewire payloads, they can trigger CannotUpdateLockedPropertyException or Livewire property-assignment TypeError exceptions. This package silently handles those bot-driven exceptions and prevents them from being reported to Sentry or other error tracking services, keeping your error logs clean.

Installation

composer require darvis/livewire-injection-stopper

That's it! The spam bot blocking is now active.

Check Your Security

Run this command to scan your Livewire components:

php artisan livewire-injection-stopper:audit

It will show you which properties need protection.

Example: Fixing a Security Issue

Before (Vulnerable):

class CheckoutComponent extends Component
{
    public $price = 100.00;  // ⚠️ Attacker can change this to $0.01!
}

After (Secure):

use Livewire\Attributes\Locked;

class CheckoutComponent extends Component
{
    #[Locked]  // ✅ Now protected!
    public $price = 100.00;
}

What Gets Blocked?

By default, these bots are blocked:

• Python scripts (python-requests)
• Command-line tools (curl, wget)
• Web scrapers (scrapy)
• Generic bots and crawlers

Real browsers and users are never blocked.

Configuration (Optional)

Want to customize? Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=livewire-injection-stopper-config

Now you can:

• Add or remove blocked bots
• Block specific IP addresses
• Whitelist certain routes (like webhooks)
• Enable/disable Sentry error silencing

Sentry Error Silencing

By default, this package silences bot-driven Livewire update exceptions, including:

• CannotUpdateLockedPropertyException
• Livewire property assignment TypeError exceptions (for example: Cannot assign array to property ...)

This keeps your Sentry error logs clean.

How it works:

• Middleware blocks suspicious Livewire update payloads before component assignment when possible
• If Livewire still throws a protected-property or array-assignment exception, this package catches it and returns a 403 response
• The exception is logged locally (if logging is enabled) but NOT sent to Sentry

Important: Custom Exception Handlers

If your app overrides report() in app/Exceptions/Handler.php and directly calls Sentry (captureException), make sure you skip reporting when SilentExceptionHandler::shouldSilence($exception) returns true. Otherwise, your custom handler can bypass package silencing.

To disable this feature:

// config/livewire-injection-stopper.php
'silence_locked_property_exceptions' => false,

Documentation

For detailed documentation, see the /docs folder:

• Installation Guide - Detailed setup instructions
• Security Audit - How to use the audit command
• Middleware Configuration - Customize bot blocking
• Livewire Security - Understanding the threats
• Testing - Running tests

Quick Links

• 📖 Full Documentation
• 🐛 Report Issues
• 💬 Get Support

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Laravel 11.0 or 12.0
• Livewire 3.0

License

MIT License - feel free to use in any project!

Credits

Created by Arvid de Jong

Need help? Check the documentation or email info@arvid.nl