Hello there!

I have been using your plugin for many sites for a long time. Everything was fine and it worked for me. But lately I started getting a lot of spam through the feedback forms. I don’t know what has changed and if it can be stopped somehow, but I can get up to 20 spam messages a day from 1 site where your plugin is installed.

Here are some examples of sites where I get spam (there are many others):

https://granit-sochi.ru/
https://stroitelnye-spory.ru/
https://xn—-7sbbumahgdz3bbcac7p.xn--p1ai/

Can you help me fix the situation and continue to use your spam protection correctly?

Hello Takayuki Miyoshi,

Firstly, I am very grateful to you for creating such a useful plugin for me. Next, I have been using your plugin for quite a long time.
However, in Google Search Console, it occasionally reports a 404 error, stating that some png image files cannot be found.

I have also double-checked in the /wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha/ folder, but those files are indeed missing.

Could you please let me know how to fix this issue if possible?

Thank you so much!

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• This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Yui. Reason: email removed

Hi,

Since 2 days wordpress updated to the new version, the captcha image is not showing anymore, unless I am logged to the admin of the website. Instead is the small icon of a picture frame when there is an error in the page and the image is not found.

Any idea when this will be resolved? I had to remove it from my contact form for now.

Many thanks,

Elisa

Hi, I want refresh button and need to change the captcha on click button without refresh the whole page. Please provide best solution as soon as possible?

• This topic was modified 7 months ago by araza.

I have added this plugin to add captcha in my multistep form. I have added captcha in first step. This works fine in when user clicks on next button, but after that when user clicks on submit button captcha shows error that incorrect captcha enter. I guess it’s value get reset after clicking on next button and after that when user clicks on submit button it shows incorrect captcha error. So I want to know if this plugin works with multistep form or not

Hi,

first thanks for your super plugins! As in Europe data protection gets tougher, time is running out for using solutions like Googles reCAPTCHA or other data eating solutions.

As I understood, this plugin only stores all data internally and no data is shared or gets out of the site? Can u confirm this? This would be a super solution to be GDPR compliant.

Thanks for your answer! ??

Hello there!

I’ve updated my site to PHP 8.2, and Really Simple CAPTCHA just stopped working. I get a very long error message on the frontend screen.

This may be a critical issue, since HostGator has been asking website owners to update to PHP 8.2.

Contact Form 7, however, seems to work fine, despite the PHP update.

Tmp folder files not deleted correctly when generated like this:

$captcha_instance = new ReallySimpleCaptcha();
$captcha_word = $captcha_instance->generate_random_word();
$captcha_prefix = bin2hex(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(8));
$captcha_img = $captcha_instance->generate_image($captcha_prefix, $captcha_word);

Fix for version 2.2, line 265:

- if ( ! preg_match( '/^[0-9]+\.(php|txt|png|gif|jpeg)$/', $filename ) ) {

+ if ( ! preg_match( '/^[0-9A-Za-z]+\.(php|txt|png|gif|jpeg)$/', $filename ) ) {

• This topic was modified 10 months ago by bpmusic.

Hey, I want to make the captcha compulsory. please guide me how to

Had a few major site issues this past week, mainly so I’m told to do with php usage etc… however, when our engineers went through the logs to see what was causing the issue, it appears that there is still some references to ReallySimpleCaptcha.php appearing in the logs – we deleted this plugin years ago when we moved to iThemes Security Pro which has a Google ReCaptcha v3 element.

An excerpt from the engineers ticket:

“The error message does refer to open_basedir restriction, however the filename ReallySimpleCaptcha.php it is trying to find is not present at all on the entire server, so loosening directory access restrictions would not make a difference.

The log message is of the form:

[Thu Jan 18 20:24:35 2024] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid xxxxxxx :tid xxxxxxxxxxxx] [client xxxxxxxxxxx] AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Warning: ?file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(ReallySimpleCaptcha.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/websitedomain/:/tmp/) in /var/www/vhosts/websitedomain/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/minimal-coming-soon-maintenance-mode/framework/public/include/misc/geoip/autoload.php on line 39’

This does seem to have been warning (not showing critical failure) for some time regarding ReallySimpleCaptcha.php, well before the issue was reported.”

(coding numbers, IPs and actual domain removed from excerpt for security)

Any ideas as to (a) why it is still somewhere in the system, and (b) how do we remove it safely to prevent it being logged all the time and / or causing the issues.

Thanks in advance.
TONY

ahref is showing all the images as having a 404. How do I fix the problem?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/form-not-working-after-contact-form-7-update/

My client has a website that shows a logo when the page is loading. The page has a contact form (Contact Form 7) with Really Simple CAPTCHA enabled – and the page load is super slow (>3 seconds).

Looking at the dev console, I always see a failed call to wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha/1568966865.png that takes ~3 seconds, causing the page to show the loading logo for too long. There is always a subsequent successful CAPTCHA call and captcha works correctly when submitting the form.

Because there is always that 1568966865.png call (and interestingly, the file name is always the same in this first call), the page looks really unresponsive.

What is the reason for this first call to captcha and can this be removed? I actually see the same issue in your documentation (https://contactform7.com/captcha/ – you can always see three failed calls, for three captchas loading).

I’d be happy to contribute a fix to this if possible.

i want content to appear on page after captcha submit. how to achive this

Hi all,

On an Italian-English bilingual site with Polylang I’m trying to translate into English the error message that appears if you enter the wrong code.
It is displayed correctly in Italian but on the contact page in English it is not translated.
Obviously in the “messages” section it is not there and therefore it is not possible to change that string.
I’ve already read other threads on the subject but I can’t find the solution. Can you give me some advice on how to solve this problem?

Many thanks in advance.

Francus

Hi,

Thank you for this wonderful plugin.

I have installe dit and it worked beautifully.

However, recently I ran the smush plugin.

After that sometimes the captcha image is visible and sometimes it snot visible.

Kinldy help.

with best regards,

Aniket

Hello, while working on updating a theme for ADA compliance, I found that there’s a missing attribute on the textarea element of the recaptcha plugin.

Is there a plan to make this update? Can I contribute to this and make the update? If so, where do I submit the change?

Thanks!

Hello!

As a visitor how can I activate capcha?

I don’t have wordpress.

How do I install really simple capch?

Hello

i want to integrate this reCAPTCHA plugin with our ultimate membership plugin how to integrate please give some suggestion

Hey Guys,

Anyone know why the Captcha code word is no longer displayed? No big changes to the website happened so I’m unsure. Here’s what I have in my contact form 7 settings for this plugin:

[captchac captcha-118 size:l fg:#00ff00 bg:#ffffff]

[captchar captcha-118 4/4]

On another page, I have this code: (also not working)

Input This Code: [captchac captcha-170]

[captchar captcha-170 4/4]

Thanks!

Good morning
I have a wordpress custom form. I would like to add your recaptcha. I added a shortcode like: <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[captchac cap53][captchar cap53]’);?> or by directly adding the following code before my “submit” html tag:

<?php  $captcha_instance = new ReallySimpleCaptcha( );
$word = $captcha_instance->generate_random_word();
$prefix = mt_rand();
$captcha_instance->generate_image( $prefix, $word );
$correct = $captcha_instance->check( $prefix, $the_answer_from_respondent );
$captcha_instance->remove($prefix); ?>

But nothing is displayed. The PHP modules on the server are well installed. Did I make a mistake, an oversight? How to integrate in a custom form?
THANKS
Nicholas

I deactivated and deleted the plugin but it is still showing, I need help. I am not tech savvy. How do I remove it from the homepage?

Thanks for your plugin! If you have something like stopp words for your captcha text, it would be a good idea to add also some German words. Today we saw the captcha text: “HURE” (means bitch in German) under our form. This is not optimal to be trustworthy when someone wants to send the form with such words ?? Thanks again for your community efforts! Best, Steffen

Hi, is it possible to add a refresh button in order to refresh the captcha?

Thanks
Luca

Captcha not loading – Latest Safari version
Kindly Help!!

HI,

we currently using the plugin on one of our customers sites.

Unfortunately, it’s not working properly with the cache plugin W3 Totel Cache.

Because we use the form on the front page, we don’t want to exclude the entire page from the cache.

Ist there any other solution for this issue?

Best regards
Sebastian

Hi

How can i use Really Simple CAPTCHA for the WP Admin login?

Thanks for helping
Alex

Hi
I have the plugin activated but i cant see any captcha in the html code of my WordPress page with CF7 form. How can i check that Really Simple CAPTCHA is really working?

Best regards
Alex

• This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by avwscad.

現在、4文字のアルファベットが表示されますが、こちらを「ひらがな」4文字でランダムに表示させることは出来ないでしょうか。

また、https://contactform7.com/ja/captcha/　には、オプションとして提供されていないようでしたがので、もし、ひらがなでの対応がない場合、ひらがな　のランダム表示というのは、ご予定にはないでしょうか。

突然の質問ですみません。

Hi there,
Where can I find a description of how to use Really Simple CAPTCHA with blog comments (single post)?
Thanks a million,
Nedota

Hi in my website I used Gravity form and showing captcha by this plugin but the captcha image is not showing. And my gravity form folder has 777 permission.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by rakhashree.