Captcha for WordPress

Journal

2.0.65

• New: Added Hooks for disabling single protections using filter: « f12-cf7-captcha-skip-validation-{protection-method} ».
• New: Added additional Captcha Template (requested by bonaldi).
• Improvement: Adjusted template preview images.
• Improvement: Adjusted the UI for the Settings and added additional documentation.

2.0.64

• Fix: Fixed a bug caused while using the cf7 tag captcha

2.0.63

• Improvement: CSS Adjusted for Avada Forms

2.0.62

• New: Added Template Controller for Captchas.
• New: Added a new template for Math & Image.
• Improvement: Adjusted the Contact Form 7 reload for captchas and timers after submitting the form.
• Improvement: Adjusted the Reload Captcha to only reload the assigned captcha instead of all captcha fields.
• Update: Adjusted the Support Link
• Update: Added more details about the reason the rule-protection was triggered

2.0.6

• Compatibility: Added validator compatibility to other plugins loading the same base controller.
• Fix: Fixed a bug causing comments for blog posts sometimes not verified correct.

2.0.5

• New: Added the option to enable / disable captcha protection for WordPress Registration and Login
• New: Added the option to enable / disable captcha protection for WooCommerce Registration and Login

2.0.4

• Fix: Updated language files. Added missing text strings.
• New: Added option to toggle between a black and white reload icon.
• New: Added a filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-reload-icon’ allowing developers to define a custom reload icon.
• New: Added the option to change the label for the captcha
• New: Added the option to change the placeholder for the captcha
• New: Added the option to delete timer entries manually within the settings.
• New: Wrapped the captcha label, code and reload icon into separate div container with custom classes.
• Fix: Fixed an error causing the settings not to save correct if the blacklist was to big.

2.0.3

• Fix: Updated Styles for Honeypot field to remove whitespace.
• Fix: Added Unique IDs for Captcha and Hash Fields (Math/Image Generator)
• Fix: Updated Javascript file to reload the captcha correct

2.0.0

• New: Added filter ‘f12_cf7_captcha_is_installed_{id}’ which will allow developers to enable / disable specific forms, supported ids: avada, cf7, wordpress_comments, elmeentor, gravityforms, ultimatemember, woocommerce, wordpress, wpforms.
• New: Added filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-skip-validation’ which will allow developers to skip specific protection methods for forms.
• New: Added filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-log-data’ which will allow developers to add custom data to log entries.
• New: Added filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-get-form-field-{type}’ which will allow developers to customize the captcha field, supported types: math, honeypot, image.
• New: Added filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-ruleregex-exclusion-counter’ which allows developers to exclude certain regex values from the rules.
• Update: Overhaul of all compatibility controllers.
• Update: Overhaul of almost all core functions.
• Update: Changed namespace to f12_cf7_captcha.
• Update: Overhaul of all ui pages. Merged Settings into Dashboard UI Page.
• Update: Equalisation of all security measures for all supported forms
• Update: Changed the settings structure saved within the options.
• Update: Changed log message stored for post entries.
• Update: Equalisation of all error messages caused by the security measures.
• New: Added uninstall.php to remove all data on deinstallation.

1.12.2

• New: Added JS Validation for WooCommerce Login & Registration
• New: Added Filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-skip-validation’ to handle individual forms (excluding them from validation process).
• Fix: Fixed a problem for Captcha Validation in WooCommerce Registration Forms.

1.12.1

• Hotfix: Fixed a bug causing the system to throw a 500 Server Error if a large amount of entries already exist.

1.12.0

• New: Added WP Cron for Log Entries
• New: Added Option to delete all Log Entries at once within the UI/Database Settings

1.11.92

• Hotfix: Fixed bug causing the wp-cron stop running the cleaning task.

1.11.7

• Hotfix: Fixed a bug causing an error in PHP 8.2 while checking for referrers.
• Hotfix: Fixed the honeypot field (hidden => text)

1.11.5

• Hotfix: Fixed a bug causing the honeypot to fail validation even if correct. (e.g. WooCommerce Registration)

1.11.4

• Hotfix: Security hotfix

1.11.2

• Fix: Updated Code to work with Ultimate Member 2.6.7
• Rename: CF7Captcha.php to f12-cf7-captcha.php
• Fix: Updated Domain to captcha-for-contact-form-7
• New: Added JavaScript Validation to Ultimate Member

1.11.0

• Update: Changed code to be compatible with PHP 7.0.
• Fix: Issue fixed causing the math captcha to not reload correctly.
• Fix: Javascript and Browser Validation are activated after the captcha protection for the specific module (e.g. CF7) has been activated.

1.10.0

• New: Added Captcha, JavaScript, Rule & Browser Validation support for Gravity Forms.
• Fix: Updated Spelling in WPForms JavaScript Validation.
• Update: Updated the default settings to support Gravity Forms settings.

1.9.1

• Fix: The settings are now saved correctly on WordPress multisites.

1.9

• New: WPForms Support added

1.8.1

• Fix: Fixed a bug causing elementor to throw an error. (Uncaught TypeError: array_merge())

1.8

• Fix: Fixed a JavaScript bug in Avada Forms.
• New: Added Browser Validation for Avada Forms
• New: Added Javascript Validation for Elementor, Avada, CF7, Comments, WordPress Login, WordPress Backend

1.7.2.1

• Fix: Hotfix for image reload – Reload icon has been removed on reload for image captchas

1.7.2

• Fix: Hot fix for Timers.

1.7.1

• New: Added verified Message to submitted Avada Forms
• New: Added additional logging information (Timer, Header)
• New: Added Log data for verified Elementor submissions
• Fix: Fixed a bug with Comment Validation causing the comment to break
• Fix: Fixed a bug with Login Validation
• Fix: Adjusted Elementor Honeypot field

1.7

• New: Reload for Image & Math Captcha

1.6.6

• Fix: Fixed the domain mapping for the language.
• Fix: Fixed a bug causing the blacklist not to save after editing.

1.6.5

• New: Changed the default value for the greedy filter to 0 in the general settings.

1.6.4

• New: Simplified the UI for Setting up the Captchas – You can now set up everything with just 3 clicks for your complete website.
• New: Added german translation for the Plugin and Pot Files. The Plugin can now be translated within wordpress (LocoTranslate, WPML …)

1.6.3

• Beta: Added position option for avada forms (before or after submit button).

1.6.2

• Fix: WooCommerce Registration Page Settings fixed
• New: Filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-get-form-field-honeypot’ added to customize the honeypot captcha field.
• New: Filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-get-form-field-image’ added to customize the image captcha field.
• New: Filter ‘f12-cf7-captcha-get-form-field-math’ added to customize the arithmetic captcha field

1.6

• New: Added support for the Ultimate Member Plugin Registration & Login Form
• Fix: Fixed a issue with contact form 7 not adding the global captcha field correct if the submit button has been customized.
• New: Added hook to WordPress Login Authentication, allowing to change the validation status before the error messages is generated. (f12_cf7_captcha_login_login_validator)

1.5.1

• New: Added captcha protection option for WordPress registration (Arithmetic, Honeypot & Image)
• New: Added captcha protection option for WooCommerce registration (Arithmetic, Honeypot & Image)
• New: Added captcha protection option for WooCommerce login (Arithmetic, Honeypot & Image)
• New: Added Arithmetic & Image Captcha for CF7 (global)
• New: Added Arithmetic & Image Captcha for Avada Forms (global)
• New: Added Arithmetic & Image Captcha for WordPress Comments (global)
• New: Added Arithmetic & Image Captcha for WordPress Login (global)
• Fix: Fixed some minor bugs on validation mechanics.
• Update: Added code optimizations and improvements.
• Fix: Spelling mistakes fixed in the logs and ui.
• Update: Renamed WordPress Login to WordPress within the UI Menu.

1.5

• Fix: The CF7 time based protection will now take the correct name from the settings (before it took the name of the avada form time based protection)
• Fix: Spelling mistakes fixed in the logs.
• New: Added the option to enable the multiple submission protection for contact form 7.
• New: Added the option to rename the honeypot field for contact form 7.
• New: Added the option to enable the multiple submission protection for avada forms.
• New: Added the option to enable the multiple submission protection for elementor forms.
• Update: Updated the plugin settings ui.

1.4.94

• New: Added Honeypot & Filter Protection for Avada Contact Templates.

1.4.93

• Fix: Updated the « ungreedy » function of the blacklist filter.
• New: Added a description to the greedy/ungreedy checkbox in the blacklist options.

1.4.92

• Fix: Contact Form 7 error message added for empty captcha fields.

1.4.91

• Fix: Updated syntax for honeypot on Elementor causing an unexpected line break on columns.

1.4.9

• New: Added Arithmethic & Image Captcha for Elementor Forms

1.4.8

• New: Added Elementor Support – if Elementor is installed the Captcha/Honeypot can be activated for all Elementor forms.

1.4.7

• New: Added the option to enable greedy search for blacklisted words. For example, is the word « train » is blacklisted and the greedy function is enabled, this will not block « trainstation ». If you disable the greedy function « trainsation » will also be blocked.

1.4.6

• New: Added Log System tracking all messages (verified and spam). This will help to find false positive submissions.
• Fix: Removed comment reply validation for users with the capabilities « edit_comment » and « moderate_comments »
• Update: Moved Filters from Dashboard to a new Filter section in the Settings for the Captcha

1.4.5

• Update: WordPress 6.0 compatibility
• New: Multiselect compatibility.

1.4.4

• Update: Added CSS for Toggle
• Update: Added Toggle.js

1.4.2

• Update: Adjusted Readme, added FAQ.

1.4.1

• New: Added customizable error message for rules – only CF7 and Comments for the moment.
• New: Added Rules to Avada – default error message will be displayed at the moment.

1.4

• New: WordPress Login Captcha integration
• Fix: Fixed a bug with the Timer when the Timer Field did not reload after Spam submitting a form which stopped the form to be submitted again.

1.3

• New: Add the Option to add a Honeypot Field global for Contact Form 7
• New: Captchas are now reloading after mails sent
• Update: Changed the IP Timer / Ban Logic.
• New: Added custom rules to check fields (Links, BBCode, Blacklist).
• New: Added Blacklist, which will use the default WordPress Discussion List. Keywords can be loaded async.
• Remove: Removed CF7 missing notice.

1.2.1

• Update: Minor Captcha Style Updates

1.2

• Update: Code Optimizations
• New: Added IP Based Spam Protection – IP Addresses are stored as SHA512 encrypted string with including a custom salt in the database.
• New: Added Salt System for IP Addresses. This will generate a new Salt every month to increase the IP Address Protection
• New: Added timer to define the minimum time that needs to be elapsed between 2 form submits.
• New: Added IP Bans for recognized and repeated Spam submits from the same IP Address. Times and Retries are customizable within the settings.
• New: Added additional Database options to clean or empty tables manually.
• New: Added the option to rename the fieldnames given for the captcha and timer fields to increase the difficult for bots.
• Update: Added additional Avada, Comments and CF7 compatibility.

1.1

• New: Additional spam protection for Comments and CF7 by setting a custom time value which will be used to submit the form.
• New: Added Comments / Discussion spam protection
• New: Added Database options to manually clean database entries

1.0

• Initial commit