Spamming Valid Comments, Captcha Issue

  • Resolved btreece84

    (@btreece84)


    2 years, 8 months ago

    Have commenters with a hundred or more approved comments being shown a captcha. They’re each using the same name, email, and IP as all other approved comments. Using the WP Ajaxify Comments plugin to un-crapify the WP comment system a bit, and the captcha doesn’t play nice with that. Doesn’t show the captcha (GD installed and working fine), but the error message does. Not as big of a deal if it’s not spamming valid commenters, but it’s doing that as well.

    Any way to disable the captcha system? I don’t mind going in the code, just don’t want to start poking around too much as I’m learning your structure. I’m assuming line 206 in class-spam-destroyer.php is the issue calling it, but reading that line I don’t see why. No reverse proxy or cloudflare or anything else getting in the way. Could be one of the eight or nine other checks after it.

    Would be a big help if I could force the plugin to see me as spam to test it. General help is appreciated. Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Ryan Hellyer

    (@ryanhellyer)

    You will need to modify the plugin code to disable the CAPTCHA. Be aware that if you do that, it may either let spam through or prevent legitimate people from commenting.

    You can fake being a spammer, by just opening up the element inspector on the page and finding the hidden input field with an ID of #killer_value and change it something else (doesn’t matter what). That should trick it into thinking you are a spammer.

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