AntiSpam for Contact Form 7

0.6.3

• Quick fix for null is not an object (evaluating ‘document.getElementById(“cf7a_download_button”) (bug report, thanks to @WebCodePoet)

0.6.2

• Fix/honeyform init (bug report, thanks to @silas2209)
• Fix/mailbox_protection_multiple_send option not initializated (bug report, thanks to @oceandigitals)
• Import and export options metabox (feature request, @Wendihihihi)
• Fixes the plugin update function that was removing the “enabled” flag…
• Resend to custom email address (bug report, thanks to @oceandigitals and @Wendihihihi)
• Admin options page ui updates
• Dnsbl removes some default servers and adds additional notes
• B8 moved as plugin library
• startup optimization

0.6.0

• Fix: new config validator: unsafe email (Zodiac1978)
• Fix: Warning- Uninitialized string (bug report, thanks to @benjaminvandenberg)
• Fix: false positives due to language_incoherence (bug report, thanks to @benjaminvandenberg fixed by @gardenboi)
• Feature Request: exception list for honeyforms (@linuxlurak close by @gardenboi)
• Fix: mail resend didn’t work (bug report, thanks to @oceandigitals)
• Enhancement: Remove mail duplicates if users sent multiple
• Enhancement: General UI enahancements
• Enhancement: Rewrote the plugin core to keep it up to date with modern loading methods

0.5.0

• Fixed compatibility with php 8.2

0.4.6

• PHP 8.2 support (bug report, thanks @senjoralfonso)
• Fix “internal_server_error” when message is empty (pull request, thanks @MeliEve #42)
• Maintenance – updated dependencies CI and coding standards

0.4.5

• Enhanced language detection using the http headers accepted language (bug report, thanks @senjoralfonso #33)
• Multisite compatibility #34 (bug report, thanks @pluspol #34)
• Replaced domDocument with a regexp for more reliability (bug report, thanks @jensdiep and @georgr #35)
• Whitelist Feature request: whitelisting (feature requests, thanks @jensdiep #36)
• Settings page card style (enhancement, thanks @emilycestmoi)
• Fix for automatic unban initial settings, in some cases it might not have been “disabled”

0.4.4

• Adds the @mirekdlugosz fix for flamingo metadata regex
• Better Honeypot default input name field handling
• Fixed ‘ban forever’ that was replacing the list of banned IPs instead of adding the selected one
• Add a new check in oder to verify the http protocol since bots usually connects with HTTP/1.X

0.4.3

• Fixes an issue with honeypot placeholder (thanks to @ardsoms and @edodemo for the report)
• User enumeration protection
• Xmlrpc bruteforce protection
• Http headers obfuscation
• Add a new filter (cf7a_additional_max_honeypots) to limit the number of automatic honeypots (default: 5)

0.4.2

• Dashboard widget updated (adds a new filter ‘cf7a_dashboard_max_mail_count’ to limit the maximum value of displayed mail, default 25)
• UI enhancements – labels in the flamingo inbound page and the blacklist table
• Displays a random security tip at the top of cf7-antispam settings
• Standalone geoip check (previously it was mandatory to enable the language checks in order to enable geo-ip)
• Under certain conditions an automatic ban is carried out and the e-mail is not processed to avoid unnecessary consumption of resources
• German translation – thanks to @fhwebdesign and @senjoralfonso

0.4.1

• Honeyform updated and enhanced
• updated dnsbl servers (removed spfbl.net, bogons.cymru.com – added spamrats.com)
• improved iOS detection

0.4.0

• Adds geoip antispam filter
• Updated dashboard widget
• Updated settings and frontend scripts
• Improved honeypot (thanks to @theadam123 for feedbacks/testing)

0.3.0

• Dashboard widget to display the email received of the last week
• Resend email from Flamingo UI (works with mail received after this update)
• CF7-AntiSpam version check enhanced (but you will probably have to flush cache anyway when you update this plugin)
• Honeyform enhancements
• Enhanced activation script
• Adds an option to set the number of attempt before ban
• Cron unban fix
• Referrer verify (under bad ip checks)

0.2.7

• avoid to parse multiple times the stored flamingo messages
• added under “advanced options” a button to full reset cf7-antispam stored data
• language check (allowed/disallowed) based on browser language

0.2.6

• New option under “Enable advanced settings -> Severity of anti-spam control” with some prebuilt presets (weak, standard, secure)
• Fix install script that in some edge case can fail
• Backend script update
• Improved Javascript support for older browsers and ios (safari > 9 and internet explorer)
• jquery is no longer needed

0.2.5

• Bugfix the additional data in the email related to flamingo may not be parsed correctly
• New option to disable cf7 reload (/refill) when caching is enabled
• Enhanced fingerprint support for chrome on ios

0.2.4

• A new section “Advanced Section” that can be unlocked at the end of cf7-antispam options. I will put the more complex options there to make the interface easier.
• Improved spam management with flamingo
• New automatic options update handler
• Selectable encryption cypher
• Improved browser detection
• Fix installation failure (in very rare conditions) when Flamingo is installed and in mail message there are some non-utf8 characters.
• Documentation Update

0.2.3

• enhanced fingerprint scripts performance
• improving debugging output
• solved an issue with some plugins like conditional forms for cf7
• improved mobile fingerprinting

0.2.2

• fix safari (macos/ios) detection (with a new custom check)
• fix max time elepsed check
• countermeasures to avoid bayesian poisoning
• fix encoding with some languages for generated honeyform/honeypot
• reviewed scoring for fingerprinting and dnsbl

0.2.1

• enhanced honeyform and honeypot style
• fix dnsbl report message
• enhanced hidden fields “append on submit” option
• with the “extended debug option” on deactivate resets the B8 db

0.2.0

• adds HoneyForm to antispam checks
• a new option (under fingerprinting) to add the hidden fields with javascript only while submitting
• add a options section where the user can define the score of tests
• some admin UI cosmetical changes

0.1.1

• user customizable scoring options
• fix some installation issues on mysql < 5.6

0.1.0

• AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 published into WordPress Plugin Directory
• Compared to the very early version, I’ve added honeypot, fingerprint bots and automated ip bans (but I need to provide a way to unban even without flamingo).
• Documentation

0.0.1

• This is the first release