hi, we’re using Version 2.0.65 on WP 6.6.2 with PHP 8.0.
We can see in the log entries that the spammers were logged, but they were still able to register.

Is there a logging only mode? Do I have overlooked a switch to turn blocking on?

Example Log-Info:

user_login: www.ssgbnx.blogspot.bg - 44 171 EURO BTC wdc
user_email: [email protected]
redirect_to:
wp-submit: Register
Browser Data: browser_name:,browser_version:,platform_name:,device_type_name:,is_mobile:,
Header Data: Accept:/,
Timer Data: Form loaded: 17.10.2024 18:22:19 [1729189339.1655],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Time passed: -1729189339165 ms, -1729189339 sec,
Timer Data PHP: Form loaded: 17.10.2024 18:22:19 [1729189339.1655],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Time passed: -1729189339165 ms, -1729189339 sec,
Timer Data JS: Form loaded: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Time passed: 0 ms, 0 sec,
Log Message: multiple-submission-protection

or

user_login: www.ngdsgm.blogspot.de - 99 816 USD BTC uvw
user_email: [email protected]
redirect_to:
wp-submit: Register
Browser Data: browser_name:,browser_version:,platform_name:,device_type_name:,is_mobile:,
Header Data: Accept:/,
Timer Data: Form loaded: 17.10.2024 15:00:43 [1729177243.4911],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Time passed: -1729177243491 ms, -1729177243 sec,
Timer Data PHP: Form loaded: 17.10.2024 15:00:43 [1729177243.4911],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Time passed: -1729177243491 ms, -1729177243 sec,
Timer Data JS: Form loaded: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 00:00:00 [0],Time passed: 0 ms, 0 sec,
Log Message: multiple-submission-protection

Help would be appriciated.

Regards,
jonkel

• This topic was modified 4 days, 20 hours ago by jonkel.

How can I whitelist my developer email-address?

At the moment my mail is blocked on second try, so I can’t testing a new website function.

Best regards.

Thanks for this great and clutterfree plugin! However, I found something that I need to change, I think it is worth to share:

In the files template-0.php and template-1.php I see lot of esc_attr_e(…) function calls for terms that aren’t meant to be translated like $hash_id. Also, the optional Text domain attribute is missing.

This alone is not a bug or a problem, but it makes your plugin incompatible with the translation plugin TranslatePress. Translatepress stores all terms from translate()-request via the gettext hook in the Database. As a result I currently have more than 300000 entries of hashes and other cryptical, non-translatable terms in my translations database. Since there is no Text domain specified, it is not easy to filter them.

Please change the templates so that the translate()-function is only called for values that really need a translation ??

When a user inputs a false captcha, the backend generates a new captcha but does not display it in the frontend, thus the user still sees the first captcha that is now invalid and cannot go forward.

Hi there, how to include your captcha in wpforms. It is mentioned as possible, but can’t find how.

Kind regards
Wolfgang

• This topic was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by zzzooorrrx.

Hello,

using your arithmetic captcha with cf7 throws the response “captcha-protection”.
Seems the response text ist not changeable or translatable within the language files. Found that text only in core/protection/captcha/Captcha_Validator.class.php in line 43.

Do you have a snippet to change that text in child themes functions.php to keep it with updates?

Thanks in advance for any help on this topic.

Hi,

I am experiencing an issue where, when the CAPTCHA is enabled and the WP Rocket plugin is active, the Elementor Pro form occasionally displays an error and does not submit. This issue seems to be resolved when WP Rocket is disabled. I strongly suspect that the CAPTCHA may be causing the problem. Are there any specific settings in the WP Rocket plugin that would allow the CAPTCHA to function correctly while caching is enabled?

Hi Marc,

Get this error in error.log, what is the problem ?

[23-Jul-2024 18:50:49 UTC] array (
  'classes' => '',
  'wrapper_classes' => '',
  'attributes' => 
  array (
  ),
  'wrapper_attributes' => 
  array (
  ),
)

Generated by this code, may be :

error_log(var_export($atts,true));

(For info : files sent by WeTransfert will expire tomorrow, it seems you did’nt download it yet.)

Hey!
I think it would be great for this plugin to start a voluntarily integration with “conditionally load CF7” plugin ( https://es.www.ads-software.com/plugins/cf7-conditional-load/ ) to avoid load css and js files where contact forms are not loaded.

greetings.

• This topic was modified 3 months ago by heredatedwp.

Since we’ve recently had a few issues with the IP-Protection within our organisation on a few websites we manage, we’ve had the issue that, in case one person messes up their login, our whole team is rendered incapable of logging in, due to us all being connected through the same network and subsequently the same IP-address.

So now, to circumvent future inconveniences, we had the idea of an ip whitelist feature, where we could put in our offices’ IP and we’d be able to freely leave our ip-protection on a very restrictive mode.

I am aware that reducing the restrictiveness and the whole ip-protection as a whole is configurable to be more lenient, but we would really prefer not to for security reasons.

Thank you kindly for a response,
Sincerely
Chris

Hello, with new update math captcha is not working. it doesn’t validate the answer.

https://postimg.cc/xktnKhcS

first click to the chekbox put the focus behing the “”, but it doesn’t matter where you put the answer… I tried to remove “” before answer the question , put the number between “”… but it doesn’t work.
same with new style and with old style.

Also, with old style, the main field is duplicated.

https://postimg.cc/tsdXgYbJ

I’m using latest CF7.

• This topic was modified 3 months ago by heredatedwp.
• This topic was modified 3 months ago by heredatedwp.
• This topic was modified 3 months ago by heredatedwp.

Hello Marc Wagner,

I’m happy to use Your plugin. Unfortunately, the plugin has some problems with the latest version of WordPress.

1. Every comment ends up as spam (I use the WordPress comment system). In previous topics here, people reported server error 500 (Error: Spam) -> https://horbaczewski.info/wp-comments-post.php. I’ve the same problem. Additionally, I tried each of the methods: -Honeypot – Arithmetic -Image In your plugin, I only have “Captcha Protection” enabled and all other protection options disabled. I also tried toggling “Available Protection Services”, unfortunately it did not solve the problem. I even noticed another error in the Apache logs:

2024-07-09 01:59:19.918436 [NOTICE] [3239290] [T0] [127.0.0.1:47350#APVH_www.horbaczewski.info:443] [STDERR] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "protection_cf7_enable" in ../horbaczewski.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php on line 409\n
2024-07-09 01:59:19.918506 [NOTICE] [3239290] [T0] [127.0.0.1:47350#APVH_www.horbaczewski.info:443] [STDERR] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "protection_wordpress_comments_enable" in ../horbaczewski.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php on line 409\n
2024-07-09 01:59:19.918588 [NOTICE] [3239290] [T0] [127.0.0.1:47350#APVH_www.horbaczewski.info:443] [STDERR] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "protection_wordpress_enable" in ..s/horbaczewski.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php on line 409\n
2024-07-09 01:59:19.918646 [NOTICE] [3239290] [T0] [127.0.0.1:47350#APVH_www.horbaczewski.info:443] [STDERR] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "protection_wordpress_login_enable" in ../horbaczewski.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php on line 409\n
2024-07-09 01:59:19.918691 [NOTICE] [3239290] [T0] [127.0.0.1:47350#APVH_www.horbaczewski.info:443] [STDERR] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "protection_wordpress_registration_enable" in ../horbaczewski.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php on line 409\n

I’ ha’ve the latest version of your plugin Version 2.0.5 and WordPress 6.5.5.
I’ll be grateful for Your time and quick help.

2. Could You add a new feature?
Good practice dictates using the least amount of plugins. I use Your plugin and “Duplicate Killer” (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/duplicate-killer/). Unfortunately, the author “Duplicate Killer” didn’t try to contact me. I created a request there: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cloudflare-turnstile-and-greater-protection-enhancement/ Thanks to this, I found Your plugin and now I use both plugins. Your plugin is based on IP addresses, so I thought it would be easier for you to add a check for a designated field has unique data entered into it.
To sum up, could You add a new protection feature such as Limit one submission per Email address, Phone or TextField (stop duplicate entries for Contact Form 7). Your plugin has the advantage that it doesn’t use cookies. This would allow me to disable the “Duplicate Killer” plugin, because from now on Your plugin would show “Customise error message for duplicate entries”. I hope I got the right person with my message. Please write me what you think about it ??

Kind Regards,
Luke

• This topic was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by ZicPL.

Hi Marc,

I’ve translated the plugin completely into French.

A few points to note:

Some translation strings do not appear to be translatable (backend)

• WordPress Login & Registration
  (compatibility/wordpress/ControllerWordpress.class.php, line 18)
• WooCommerce Login & Registration
  (compatibility/woocommerce/ControllerWoocommerce.class.php, line 19)
• Hooks: (textdomain?)
  (ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php, line 1100)
• Dashboard (submenu)
  (ui/controller/UI_Dashboard.php, line 27)
• Log Entries (submenu)
  (core/log/Log_WordPress.class.php, line 70)

UI (frontend)

• The black reload icon is not visible on dark themes and could be spaced out.
• The label before the image and math CAPTCHAs calculation is awkward or should be customizable: for example on CF7 it could be defined above by a custom text field, but it seems impossible to remove easily the hard-coded label.
  (core/protection/captcha/CaptchaImageGenerator.class.php, line 222)
  (core/protection/captcha/CaptchaMathGenerator.class.php, line 289)

Miscellaneous

• Documentation not up to date, difficult to find customization syntax, as for example for CF7: “placeholder” for placeholders (documentation in English would be welcome).

Regards.

Hello,
we saw that there has been an update some hours ago. Since than sending forms on all of our 10 websites isn’t possible and there is a note before the “send”-button which says something with “captcha”. We rolled back all our websites and the whole websites haven’t been working anymore, so we deactivated your plugin. Now everything works fine but of course we start getting spam by now. Will there be another update soon, so we can use your plugin again. I am sorry that I am not able to send you a URL with the problem as all of our websites have to be online and the forms have to work for our business.

Thank you in advande and best regards
Benny

Hello,

When I try to follow logs to tinker bot detection settings about time based protection, all info is empty:
Timer Data PHP: Form loaded: 01.01.1970 01:00:00 [0],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 01:00:00 [0],Time passed: 0 ms, 0 sec,
Timer Data JS: Form loaded: 01.01.1970 01:00:00 [0],Form submitted: 01.01.1970 01:00:00 [0],Time passed: 0 ms, 0 sec,

What are my options?

• This topic was modified 5 months ago by heredatedwp.

I’ve inserted two Captchas into a CF7 from like this:

[f12_captcha f12_captcha-569 captcha:honey]
[f12_captcha f12_captcha-61 captcha:image]

The code created for an input field looks like this:

<input class=”f12c wpcf7-validates-as-required” data-method=honey id=f12_captcha-569 captchamethod=honey class=”wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-f12_captcha wpcf7-validates-as-captcha” aria-invalid=false placeholder=Captcha value type=text name=f12_captcha-569 style=”width:0; height:0; max-width:0; max-height:0; opacity:0;“>

As you can see, the HTML “class” attribute is used twice, which is an internal parse error and the second one will be ignored.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Thanks for the (otherwise) good plugin! Tim

Hi, when I create a new CF7 forms, I have automatically CAPTCHA field.
Can you please tell me how to activate/desactivate CAPTCHA protection for only specific forms ?
Best Regards,
Marc.

Hi,

Deprecated code and debug notice :

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\TimerValidator::$createtime is deprecated in /mypath/mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/TimerValidator.class.php on line 53

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getCreatetime()
    {
        if (empty($this->createtime)) {
            $dt = new \DateTime();
            $this->createtime = $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        }
        return $this->createtime;
    }

Regards.

Can I exchange the term of Captcha, as example “Spam defense” or may in German “Spamabwehr”? Loco Translate doesn’t work

Hello and thank you for this great plugin.
On my website i am using your plugin and in some forms i am using Honeypot, in some others Arithmetic.

Along with that i am also using Lightspeed cache plugin.
In the forms that have Arithmetic field , i have noticed that the captcha do not work properly. On my first captcha validation i am getting always an error. After the error there is a refresh and i get new values/numbers for the captcha which is this time working correct.

Basically i should be able to see always new numbers every time i refresh the page which it doesn’t.

If i exclude the page with the form from caching the problems stops.
I have tried to exclude from Lightspeed optimization the /wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/assets/f12-cf7-captcha-cf7.js but still didn’t fix the issue.

Any ideas how could i solve the problem and keep my pages cached would be appreciated.

Hello and, first things first: thank you for your great plugin!

Are you planning on updating in the near future?

Because, quite recently I found that it does not work with the standard WP comment form anymore. When trying to post a comment, it won’t send but redirect to a 500 error page.

Only thing I can think of which might cause the problem is that the plugin is only compatible with WP versions 5.2 up to 6.3.2

Very recently, WP has been updated to 6.4.1.

Thanks again and have a great day!

Hi, the plugin causes WordPress to produce an error. Can you help me? Here are the details (in German):

Wenn du Hilfe bei diesem Problem suchst, wirst du m?glicherweise nach einigen der folgenden Informationen gefragt:
WordPress-Version 6.3.2
Aktives Theme: Avada (Version 7.11.2)
Aktuelles Plugin: Captcha for Contact Form 7 (Version 1.11.6)
PHP-Version 8.2.11 Fehler-Details

Ein Fehler vom Typ E_ERROR wurde in der Zeile 37 der Datei /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/Browser.php verursacht. Fehlermeldung: Uncaught TypeError: forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser::get_user_agent(): Return value must be of type string, null returned in /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/Browser.php:37
Stack trace: 0 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/Browser.php(103): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser::get_user_agent() 1 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/Browser.php(169): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser->get_browser() 2 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/compatibility/login/Login_Browser_Validator.php(37): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser->is_crawler() 3 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Login_Browser_Validator->is_spam() 4 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/plugin.php(205): WP_Hook->apply_filters() 5 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/user.php(180): apply_filters() 6 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): wp_authenticate_username_password() 7 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/plugin.php(205): WP_Hook->apply_filters() 8 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/pluggable.php(618): apply_filters() 9 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/user.php(106): wp_authenticate() 10 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-login.php(1241): wp_signon() 11 {main} thrown

If I enable the Security for Contact Form 7, even in minimal settings, the time to send the messages expands from 2-3 seconds to 20-30 seconds.
If i set to OFF anything is fine. No matter if honeypot, arithmetic or image.

This file takes the time in console:
https://www.steffi-fotografie.de/wp-json/contact-form-7/v1/contact-forms/1291/feedback

Best regards
Torsten

i need help implementing a simple recaptcha on my contact form pop-up in elementor pro. how do i add a simple recaptcha to a elementor form pop-up?

Is there a way that I could use this plugin inside a Fluent Forms form either via a hidden field or shortcode, or other?

Thanks

• This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by 247web.

Hello,

As i said in the topic title, the plugin doesn’t work anymore with WP 6.3.

Hope it will debug as soon as possible

Regards

Hi,

The plugin works fine, except when I enable woocommerce spam protection. It throws an Error. Then I have to disable it, delete it and install it to make it work. This is the error:

Versión de WordPress 6.3
Tema activo: Engitech Child (versión 1.1)
Plugin actual: Captcha for Contact Form 7 (version 1.11.0)
Versión de PHP: 8.1.21

Detalles Del Error
==================
Se produjo un error de tipo E_ERROR en la línea 75 del archivo /…/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/compatibility/woocommerce/login/Validator.class.php. Mensaje de error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\woocommerce\login\Validator::validateSpamProtection(), 1 passed in /…/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 310 and exactly 3 expected in /…/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/compatibility/woocommerce/login/Validator.class.php:75

After activating the plugin and setting it in Elementor, it is placed in an inappropriate place, which spoils the appearance of the form

Hi Marc.

I’ve translated your plugin entirely into French.
I was able to see that some fields are not translatable, such as side menu and top of page entries.
Could you please make them translatable.

Regards.

Heho

It would be great if you can support the forms of the MC4WP plugin.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/

It often gets spammed ??