Protect internal forms not working

Hello,

I’ve been using this plugin for awhile on my sites and it works great. However I installed it on a client site that has a registration form where while the user is typing it checks often if the user and email exists via AJAX requests using the jQuery validate plugin ( https://jqueryvalidation.org/validate/ ). For the email the field name is user_email and after a few checks while typing they were seemingly blocked due to spam and rate limited as well. You can see this in your database with id 8549686abecead0f648681cb40a0f3d1

I have the option for Protect internal forms off but it doesn’t seem to matter. I updated to 6.x and it still gives me errors in the console but maybe doesn’t actually add me to a spam blocklist. I’m not sure if it was something fixed in 6.x or I’m just doing something different or what. Maybe since I’m logged into an admin account in another browser and into cleantalk.org it doesn’t block my IP.

I also can’t add /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to the URL exclusions so it must think that’s part of that internal form thing and just not allow it.

However adding the user_email field to the field exclusions seems to work, but I’m not really sure if that’s ideal.

Thank you!