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[Hallsons]

Wow, I just woke up to over 3,000 spam contact forms entered, and this is on my contact form and several ask a question forms. Any suggestions as to how to stop this?

[PhilJ]

lol, they've got it in for you today. Clearly you missed an install step, or you're on a spam list.

Post an example email that you got via the contact form.

[Hallsons]

I'll go back through the install again. There were 7 spam reviews from the same, 3 bogus users created, and like I mentioned, over 3,000 emails sent from the contact us form and multiple "ask a question about this product" forms from all throughout the catalog.

I've since permanently deleted them all so will have to wait for another to post LOL

[Hallsons]

So all of these were from netsparker@example.com and searching for this on the web it is apparently a somewhat legit security scanner. Heck, someone might have actually initiated it intentionally to scan our website.

Again, I'll double check the installation...

[PhilJ]

Did you solve it?

[floracal]

Originally Posted by Hallsons

So all of these were from netsparker@example.com and searching for this on the web it is apparently a somewhat legit security scanner. Heck, someone might have actually initiated it intentionally to scan our website.

Again, I'll double check the installation...

I just got hit today 8-28-2018 from netsparker@example.com

I have found that using FireFox (61.0.2 64-bit) recaptcha does not work.

[elmirage001]

Originally Posted by floracal

I just got hit today 8-28-2018 from netsparker@example.com

I have found that using FireFox (61.0.2 64-bit) recaptcha does not work.

I use FF and recaptcha is working in my version 61.0.2 (64-bit)

[A_R]

Same here XC 4.7.9 Gold Plus - leads to a blank page - It's because this pages has already a number captcha from x-cart inserted. This may be causes the reCaptcha code not being inserted into the right place and propably would need replacing the existing coding.

[A_R]

There is an error in the installation instruction:
IF YOU USE THE *ADVANCED* CUSTOMER REVIEWS MODULE...

17) In skin/common_files/modules/Advanced_Customer_Reviews/customer_add_review.tpl

BEFORE...

{include file="customer/buttons/submit.tpl" type="input" assign="submit_button"}

INSERT...

{* reCAPTCHA - www.xcartmods.co.uk *}
{if $active_modules.reCAPTCHA && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_enabled eq "Y" && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_site_key && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_secret_key && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_enabled_review eq "Y"
<tr>
<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>{include file="modules/reCAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA.tpl" align="left"}</td>
</tr>
{/if}
{* /reCAPTCHA *}


There is a } missing behind the eq "Yes" and the <tr> Tag!



If you run the Template sytntax this produce an error in the customer_add_review_t.tpl template
pointing at line 85 "<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>" - Unexpected "<"



Here is the corrected version:


{* reCAPTCHA - www.xcartmods.co.uk *}
{if $active_modules.reCAPTCHA && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_enabled eq "Y" && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_site_key && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_secret_key && $config.reCAPTCHA.reCAPTCHA_enabled_review eq "Y"}
<tr>
<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>{include file="modules/reCAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA.tpl" align="left"}</td>
</tr>
{/if}
{* /reCAPTCHA *}


This will produce the right customer_add_review_t.tpl file version.


Attached zip file with 2 screenshots

[PhilJ]

Zip file install.txt corrected with missing } (line 329).