More spam after installing

any comment from the plugin author on this? thank you

I have been using this Captcha plugin for more than a year and it was performing on the very top level, but in the last couple weeks I can see bots who are able to easily bypass it.

Could this plugin be improved by using images instead of plain text?
That would be a great update. ??

I have the same problem as LChief. Been getting a lot of spam comments last month or two. Maybe the encryption for result could be made more complex or changed somehow to prevent these ?

Hi,

We have received your query and it is now being processed. We will get back to you on this forum as soon as we can.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team

Hi all,

Unfortunately, none of the captcha plugins guarantee 100% spam security.
1) Spam may come from the forms without captcha – please check your site and all the forms on it.
2) Please check if captcha works and blocks submission if entered incorrectly.
3) We can recommend you to increase captcha complexity on the settings page and update to the recent version if you haven’t done it yet.
4) Maybe our plugin Limit Attempts (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/limit-attempts/) will help – With this plugin, you can limit user’s attempts to log in to your website and, consequently, block the user for a certain period of time.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team

Thanks for your reply. The commenting layout should always include captcha while I’m using custom created theme. I tried with false captcha answer on the blog and it got blocked successfully. I have both numbers and words checked in the captcha complexity settings. Now I also unchecked the box “Hide CAPTCHA in Comments form for registered users” but don’t think that should matter in this case. I’ll try the Limit Attempts plugin but I already have Wordfence for brute-force login attempts so I’ll hope they work together.

Thanks for getting back about the problem, but the issue for me was that the spam INCREASED after installing this. I only have one simple form. When I had no captcha I was receving less spam. Furthermore as mentioned in my previous post all spam looks pretty much the same and this should hopefully help narrowing down the problem. My complexity level is at max – all numbers & words checked in settings. Thank you.

Hi micsu,

We sincerely hope this helps. Please let us know if everything is OK, or if you have any further questions.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team

Hi thepresident,

As we have mentioned above, unfortunately, none of the captcha plugins guarantee 100% spam security. The case is, there is a number of paid service for recognizing captcha out there. Possibly, this is just the case.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team

I am using plugin but my form is submitted without filling captcha

<?php if( function_exists( ‘cptch_display_captcha_custom’ ) ) { echo “<input type=’hidden’ name=’cntctfrm_contact_action’ value=’true’ />”; echo cptch_display_captcha_custom(); } ?>

i have used above line in my form. How to make it required.
Form should not submitted if it is wrong.

Hi anshul upadhyay,

Please provide a link to your site.

Sincerely,
BestWebSoft Support Team