Empty fields even when required

Hi @nvmweb

I hope you are doing well today.

Unfortunately, it’s not possible to have submissions 100% protected from spam but using multiple protection methods does help reduce it by a good amount.

Forminator has its own simple anti-spam feature inside called “honeypot”. It’s just basic protection but together with reCaptcha enabled it should make the “shield” a bit stronger.

You can enable Honeypot for each form separately by editing the form and turning on the “Enable Honeypot protection” option in “Behaviour” settings.

Kind Regards,
Kris

Hello Kris,
Thank you for your prompt response. I may be a little naive but is it possible that the robots manage to pass the answers that are marked as required ? This is what questions me.
Have a good day
Cécile

Hi @nvmweb

Some bots are smart enough to bypass the challenges and manipulate the DOM to submit the spams, so we also need to look deeper on how protect our sites to stop or decrease as much as possible.

On Forminator side we suggest:

• hCpacha or ReCaptcha: https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#captcha-field you can run an A/B test and see which fight better on your site.
• Honeypot protection https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#enable-honeypot-protection
• Consider using an Anti Spam, we integrate to cleantalk https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#cleantalk-anti-spam and Akismet https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#enable-akismet-spam-protection
  

On your site Level:

• Keep WP, Plugins & Theme updated.
• Enable WPMU DEV Defender or any other security plugin
• Make sure to configure it, there are some modules that can help for example UA banning and GEO blocking.
• Consider using Cloudflare.
  

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Ok, thank you for these explainations

Have a good day