Removing reCaptcha on fresh install

  • Hi all,

    I am on a fresh new install in WordPress 5.4.1 that was updated to 5.4.2.
    Upon login at https://mywebsite.com/wp-admin, reCaptcha boxes appear. I wish to remove reCaptcha from this install.

    I removed the default plugins, including Akismet (no more plugins).
    ReCaptcha still appear on login.

    I cannot find a solution after a few hours of looking: where can it be removed ?

    Thank you for help !

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • By default there’s no recaptcha in WordPress, check it may be from your hosting.

    Thread Starter carottebleue

    (@carottebleue)

    Thank you for help. I will check on this.

    Thread Starter carottebleue

    (@carottebleue)

    @frahadvn, your were correct.
    My hoster answered

    We’ve recently enabled WordPress brute force protection in LiteSpeed on our Premium Web Hosting platform after seeing rising amounts of distributed brute force login attacks targeting customers.

    Although there seemed to have a way to only disable reCaptcha, we have disabled all LiteSpeed by adding 

    <IfModule Litespeed>
WordPressProtect off
</IfModule>

    in .htaccess file.
    Successful.

    I’ll now need to go through what is necessary to harden my installation.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by carottebleue.
    Thread Starter carottebleue

    (@carottebleue)

    … and for only disabling reCaptcha, this code will do:

    <IfModule Litespeed>
WordPressProtect captcha, 0
</IfModule>
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