Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#30442 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)
Commenting requires registration; unregistered spam bots still manage to comment
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.0.1 |
| Component: | Comments | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
I run a Chinese blog and the only plugin I have installed is one that enabled the use of a Chinese captcha upon registration. This is extremely good at keeping all bots from registering. I have banned unregistered people from commenting and for over a year this had been working flawlessly. No unwanted successful registrations and comments only from my small group of known users. Then around a month ago I started getting spam comments again, not too many but still, they shouldn't be allowed to comment!
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Upon testing both the HTML form handler and the XML-RPC endpoint, I'm unable to find any way to create a comment when
comment_registrationis enabled.One possibility that the spam comments you're seeing are due to a bug in the plugin, or alternatively, could be pingback or trackbacks which look/act like comments in WordPress, and don't respect the
comment_registrationflag.If you're still seeing the problem, you should try the Support Forums to diagnose the issue, if a core bug is found, you can re-open this ticket.