Does not work (incompatible) with SMTP by BestWebSoft

  • WordPress @ 4.9.1
    Captcha @ 4.4.5
    SMTP by BestWebSoft @ 1.1.0

    Recently I updated Captcha to 4.4.5 and discovered that it is incompatible with plugin “SMTP by BestWebSoft”. When these two plugins are activated together, they crash the dashboard and accessing my.Domain/wp-admin/ returns HTTP 500 Error. This is consistent with my two separate servers and two websites.

    Please fix the problem or show me how to solve it. Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by helium6072.
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  • Bestwebsoft sold this plugin to a shady character (read the backdoor threads, they also contain a link to the wordfence post which in turn contains a link to the post from bestwebsoft stating the plugin was sold) 4.4.5 was an udpate released by WP staff to remove this code. As far as I can tell bestwebsoft do not support this plugin, it is unlikely there will be future updates either.

    You may need to find yourself an alternative captcha.

    Personally I recommend you use a recpatcha plugin – bestwebsoft also do one so assuming they don’t also sell it to the same company you should be good with that one

    Readme.txt file in the Cptcha updated folder suggests it is version 4.4.5 as of 12.12.2017
    As a result of that auto-update (assume done by WordPress plug-in team) – I were unable to get into the DashBoard menus
    Resolved by deleting captcha folder on site via FTP.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by hvanalyser.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by hvanalyser.
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