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How to fix OJS judol hack ?

Case Study, Recent Last Updated : July 25, 2025

If your OJS site has been hacked and injected with gambling or “JUDOL” content, you face serious risks including permanent removal from Google Scholar, loss of academic credibility, and potential legal repercussions. To recover, immediately remove all malicious content, conduct a full security audit to eliminate backdoors, strengthen all authentication measures, and submit a formal reconsideration request to Google Scholar to restore your site’s standing. Swift action is crucial to protect your journal’s reputation and search visibility

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What is OJT Guardian AI

Recent Last Updated : October 17, 2025

Over the years, we’ve had the pleasure of serving more and more clients who trust us with their OJS Managed Hosting and Support needs. Through this journey, we’ve learned that optimizing, monitoring, and protecting our clients’ sites aren’t just tasks—they’re the core of our commitment to excellence. These standards are essential, and we never compromise

User-XML Fatal Vulnerabilities For OJS/OMP/OPS < 3.3.0.21 (CVE 2024-56525)

Case Study, Recent, Security Last Updated : May 22, 2025

Another OJS Critical vulnerability is found that allows the Journal Editor to escalate its role as Administrator roles. This vulnerability can be exploited even using 3.3.0.20 or 3.4.0.8. No official version has been released for fixing this issue.
Please read the complete article on how to fix it!

Urgent Critical Vulnerabilities in < 3.3.0.17. Upgrade your OJS now!

Case Study, Recent Last Updated : March 20, 2025

Our team has found the CRITICAL vulnerabilities in all PKP platforms affected below version 3.3.0.17. We recommend you to upgrade your OJS/OMP/OPS to at the minimum 3.3.0.18 version or the latest 3.4 version.

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Why Google Scholar Didn’t Index an OJS Site? And How to Fix it?

OJS tips, Recent Last Updated : January 9, 2025

Many publishers are having problems with Google Scholar indexing. Either OJS sites are not indexed or even deindexed. Here are some steps that can be taken to overcome this problem. Please read more …

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How to Protect Your OJS Site From Hacks?

Recent Last Updated : January 31, 2026

Trend of OJS hack The trend of OJS hack from judol (online gambling) or illegal backlink injection to Open Journal System (OJS) is alarming. As OJS is used by publishers to manage their articles and workflow of submission. This activity may decrease the reputation that has been built through the hard work by the the

Tags : gambling, hack, judol, ojs

How Important is BISAC for OMP?

OMP Learning Series, Recent Last Updated : May 12, 2024

BISAC as Requirement for Book to be Indexed in Scopus A scientific work, whether in the form of an article, book or other form of research work, will be disseminated publicly through a series of publication processes. This needs to be done so that scientific work can be spread widely and can be utilized by

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Officially! We Are Registered as Official Service Provider

General Post, OJS tips, Recent Last Updated : May 19, 2024

Since 2018, we have handled and assisted various publishers in increasing the visibility of their journals, especially in using the Open Journal System (OJS) platform. We have made various efforts to help them, starting from creating themes, plugins and various other innovative products and solutions. We do this as a form of our dedication and

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How to activate and deposit Crossmark in article OJS

General Post, OJS tips, Recent Last Updated : October 2, 2025

What is Crossmark? Crossmark is a system developed by CrossRef, a non-profit organization that manages Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration services for scientific publications. Crossmark’s main goal is to facilitate updating, binding, and tracking content changes or updates to a scientific article. This feature ensures that readers can get the latest information about the articles

Unbelievable 2500% OJS Speed Improvement with OJT Blazing Cache

Recent Last Updated : February 17, 2026

At openjournaltheme.com we also provide OJS Hosting services. With this OJS Hosting, all OJS functions, including plugins or themes that we have developed, can function optimally without exception. In the OJS Hosting Services that we provide, we have implemented various configurations that are able to meet the needs of OJS users optimally. Back to the