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Tagged: CAPTCHA, CONTACT FORM, spam
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May 18, 2018 at 10:57 pm #958847
Dear Devs,
I get spam via contact form. I have enabled the captcha – I get spam. I have set a checkbox and mark it to “required” – I get the messages with text in the content “checkbox: false”. And get contactform – messages again. All fields used, telefon, subject, mailaddress.How are the messages sent? I cant use my contact form without check the checkbox.
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SDUS.
May 20, 2018 at 6:09 am #959304Hey SDUS,
Could you post a link to the page in question so that we can take a closer look please?
Best regards,
RikardMay 22, 2018 at 12:40 pm #960294Exactly the same problem here. Spam started after last update.
Spam mail comes with required checkbox: falseMay 23, 2018 at 8:39 pm #961192Hi,
Can you please create a different ticket and add your details there please?
Best regards,
BasilisJune 7, 2018 at 6:37 pm #969731Hi everybody,
the same here – massive Spam-Mails! Captcha is enabled.
The suggested plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/ is no longer available. Anyone an alternative?Thanks in advance and best regards,
NenadJune 8, 2018 at 9:15 am #970018Hi Nenad,
Could you post a link to the page in question so that we can take a closer look please?
Best regards,
RikardJune 29, 2018 at 12:09 pm #979301The same thing. Check the contact form spam bot protection because it is not working properly.
July 1, 2018 at 8:35 am #979714Hi L,
Could you post a link to the page in question so that we can take a closer look please?
Best regards,
RikardJuly 1, 2018 at 8:56 am #979727I have the same problem here https://www.oberton.org/wolfgang-saus/kontakt/
July 2, 2018 at 9:30 pm #980298Hi,
Unfortunately that is not basically an issue of our form, but a problem that does come from your server or site, to be attacked from spam-my links.
Best regards,
BasilisNovember 17, 2018 at 10:31 am #1034701Our site has recently exhibited the same behaviour via the contact form page. So, are you saying that it is just coincidence that all these posters noticed the same thing around the same time?
If it is a result of an attack by spam-my links how is that to be averted or dealt with? Any suggestions?November 17, 2018 at 7:51 pm #1034779i always replace the enfold contact form with “contact form 7” and “antispam bee” and captcha – i have never problem with this solution.
November 18, 2018 at 3:43 pm #1034851same problem here too. enfold contact form is not blocking the robots with its captcha.
any Solutions?November 19, 2018 at 7:43 am #1035068I too have recently seen an increase in spam (from the form) on a number of my sites running Enfold. Never had this issue before & I’ve been with the same host (SiteGround) for some time now.
November 20, 2018 at 12:23 pm #1035552Same here. Loads of customers complaining about spam coming in via their contact forms and all of them have the captcha enabled.
November 20, 2018 at 12:29 pm #1035555I’m wondering whether it is because Captcha/ReCaptcha has been stopped by Google and now replaced by ReCaptcha v2 And v3?
Normally you need to set up a Secret Key and ID for your site domain, don’t you? I don’t see that anywhere within the Enfold settings.November 20, 2018 at 4:42 pm #1035668Hi all,
Here is a thread for you to consider
If you need further assistance please let us know.
Best regards,
VictoriaNovember 20, 2018 at 4:50 pm #1035676Hi Victoria, so your suggestion is to consider using Wordfence or some other plugin?
I am already using Defender Pro and Akismet and it is still happening. We have a Gravity Form in use and that is not getting any spammy mail it would appear to be only the Enfold generic Contact Form that it attracting spam like moths to flame.
It could, of course, be a complete coincidence but it only started to occur after the last update we did.
Can you confirm why the Enfold Contact Form does not require a key id and secret key for the use of Recaptcha?November 21, 2018 at 3:09 am #1035887Its definitely something wrong with enfold form captcha. robots can bypass it. it will be nice to have google recaptcha with enfold form. for now I have to change all forms to contact 7 and flamingo. hopefully next update they can fix or add google recaptcha.
November 21, 2018 at 10:49 am #1035962Sure, its a bypass. I have change the contact form with another contact form plugin = no Spam.
November 25, 2018 at 6:02 pm #1037378Hi,
Thank u very much for all the feedback.
Best regards,
BasilisNovember 30, 2018 at 1:53 pm #1039295I’ve changed one client who was being flooded with contact form spam to the Contact Form 7 plugin with Google reCAPTCHA and the spam stopped overnight.
The Enfold contact form Captcha is not blocking spam.
November 30, 2018 at 2:10 pm #1039301I have noticed a significant increase in spam also. I very rarely got any spam and now there are 100 x the amount I thought it was because i had moved to another Hosting provider, but actually, it is a better hosting provider than previous.
It seems a shame to dismiss this as an increase in the Russian population rather than an Enfold specific issue ;)December 1, 2018 at 1:02 am #1039467Unfortunately this is happening for all our clients since this topic appeared on May 2018. And it is not a server issue because the websites are hosted in different servers including WP Engine, Kinsta and other well known providers. We have to abandon using the Enfold contact forms and change them with CF7 with reCAPTCHA from Google. Using wordfence/sucuri or any 3rd party WordPress plugin is not a fix of the cause. Please escalate this to the dev team asap.
December 1, 2018 at 4:12 am #1039475I have now paid for the Anti-Spam by CleanTalk plugin and that has seemed to stop the spam. I was getting sick of the spam that has filled our inboxes since a recent update. Something broke, as I very rarely received spam before.
December 1, 2018 at 5:52 am #1039496“We have to abandon using the Enfold contact forms and change them with CF7 with reCAPTCHA from Google.”
We did the same thing and have noticed a huge improvement, almost no spam now.
December 3, 2018 at 8:22 am #1040164Hi!
We created an enfold recaptcha plugin here: https://github.com/KriesiMedia/enfold-library/tree/master/customizations/enfold-recaptcha
This is going to add a recaptcha widget to the theme’s contact form. Get a site and secret key from your recaptcha admin or console, make sure that it is set to V2, activate the plugin and then go to the Enfold > Google Services panel to register your keys. This should mitigate the spams meanwhile or, if we are lucky, prevent it completely.
Cheers!
IsmaelDecember 8, 2018 at 6:23 am #1042346Ismael,
Is that plugin compatible with previous versions of theme? Or only 4.4+ covered?December 10, 2018 at 5:46 am #1042902Hi,
I haven’t tested that on older versions but it should work as long as you’re using reCAPTCHA V2, not V3.
Best regards,
IsmaelDecember 12, 2018 at 4:32 pm #1044385Any chance, to get reCAPTCHA v3 to work with it?
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