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  • May 25, 2016 at 7:14 pm #638225
    mailworm

    Dear team,

    recently a customer, whose website is based on Enfold contacted me asking, if I could do something against massive spamming, which would occur via the Enfold “standard” contact form. We do have the anti-spam question included in the form. He talked about some 200 messages, being sent over the form.

    I asked him to forward some to me. The content did not contain much, except for 2 letters.

    Are You aware of any attacks, vulnerabilities, etc?

    Thank You.

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by mailworm.
    May 25, 2016 at 7:34 pm #638230
    Vinay

    Hey mailworm!

    I’m not aware of the spam mails you described but usually spam bot’s target specific sites or a group of sites on a server.

    I noticed you are using captcha but may be this one needs a more complex one… try using contact form 7 and a plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-captcha/

    Also notify the hosting company and see if they can stop the spam attacks..

    Regards,
    Vinay

    May 25, 2016 at 8:21 pm #638242
    mailworm

    Thank You very much. Basically its like I am hosting it and its not the only Enfold website, but its the only one, where I got that spam issue reported.

    May 25, 2016 at 9:01 pm #638271
    Yigit

    Hey!

    You can also try using a plugin such as this one – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/

    Regards,
    Yigit

    May 25, 2016 at 9:38 pm #638294
    mailworm

    I changed the forms to Contact Form 7 with Google Recaptcha. Not sure, how much is needed, to implement Google Recaptcha into the integrated form in future versions of Enfold?

    May 26, 2016 at 1:56 am #638366
    Vinay

    Hey!

    Please try the plugin Yigit mentioned should be good enough to keep the spam at bay. To integrate google captcha there are few 3rd party plugins available like https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-captcha/ but not sure how well it integrates.

    Please feel free to request such feature here – https://kriesi.at/support/enfold-feature-requests/
    And if there are features that you wish Enfold had, you can request them and vote the requested ones here – https://kriesi.at/support/enfold-feature-requests/

    Cheers!
    Vinay

    January 26, 2017 at 11:31 pm #739155
    disillusion3d

    hi, having the same issues with TONS of spam getting through the captcha

    I tried the wp-spamshield plugin recommended above with no effect.
    did anyone figure out a fix for this issue yet?

    Thanks for the support!

    January 30, 2017 at 7:29 pm #740378
    Yigit

    Hi,

    We have informed our devs regarding the issue.

    If plugin did not work either that means issue is probably not theme related

    Best regards,
    Yigit

    February 16, 2017 at 10:57 pm #748163
    disillusion3d

    any fixes for the capcha used in this theme yet?

    thanks for the support!

    February 17, 2017 at 2:19 pm #748439
    Yigit

    Hi,

    Our devs are looking into it :)

    Best regards,
    Yigit

    March 4, 2017 at 6:19 am #755481
    Jason

    +1 – same issue here. Obviously the spam bots have worked out this captcha and are abusing all sites using it. Looking forward to a fix!

    March 4, 2017 at 10:01 am #755566
    mailworm

    +1 still happening here to new domain/ websites

    Please try to integrate Google reCAPTCHA into your forms.

    Used CF7 to get rid of the spam, but your forms design options are just to great!

    March 6, 2017 at 1:09 pm #756352
    Yigit

    Hi,

    Are you guys using the latest version of Enfold which is currently 4.0.2? If not, please update the theme – kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/updating-your-theme-files/

    Best regards,
    Yigit

    March 6, 2017 at 11:45 pm #756649
    Jason

    Were there any changes to spam protection in this version or was this a general comment?

    I am on 4.0.2.

    March 7, 2017 at 4:23 am #756714
    Vinay

    Hi,

    To avoid spam you can simply abfuscate the email address please refer to this link https://kriesi.at/support/topic/share-code-snippet-obfuscate-email-address-shortcode/#post-753421

    Hope this helps ;)

    Best regards,
    Vinay

    March 7, 2017 at 12:53 pm #756948
    Jason

    How about the theme implement the feature its paying customers are asking for?

    March 8, 2017 at 12:44 pm #757744
    Vinay

    Hey!

    Thank you for your suggestions. We are constantly working to make our theme better and we do keep adding new features with every new update.

    At the moment you can try the above fix while we work on adding new and exciting features for you :)

    Thank you for your constant support and understanding.

    Best regards,
    Vinay

    March 8, 2017 at 1:27 pm #757759
    mailworm

    Hi Vinay,

    thanks for the updates. I think lots of clients would love to have Google reCaptcha integration seen being implemented/ made available as an option in the integrated form functionality.

    Where can I make another suggestion re build-in form functionality?

    Regards,
    Thomas

    March 8, 2017 at 11:21 pm #758082
    Vinay

    Hi,

    Please feel free to request such feature at our feature request system: https://kriesi.at/support/enfold-feature-requests/

    This system allows us to keep track of user suggestions and lets you vote on the feature you would like to see the most. I am afraid though there is no guarantee that a feature will get implemented. If that’s something you really need you can always try to hire a developer for the task :)

    Best regards,
    Vinay

    December 18, 2017 at 10:34 pm #890270
    Hokuspokus

    Dear Kriesi,

    i have added your contact form via shortcode in a special side slider. But now, i get spam. In your standard contact form it’s a hidden secret implemented which should prevent spam. Is it in the shortcode variation also implemented or i need an extra shortcode field?

    Best
    S.

    • This reply was modified 7 years ago by Hokuspokus.
    December 19, 2017 at 12:23 pm #890436
    Victoria

    Hi Hokuspokus,

    Can you give us temporary admin access to your website in the private content box below, so that we can have a closer look?

    Best regards,
    Victoria

    December 20, 2017 at 10:52 am #890723
    Hokuspokus

    Dear Kriesi,

    please take a look.

    December 20, 2017 at 5:08 pm #890850
    Victoria

    Hi Hokuspokus,

    Here is a thread for you to consider

    Google reCAPTCHA and Enfold Contact Form

    Best regards,
    Victoria

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