AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 vs WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam}

Are you unsatisfied with your current antispam solution for Contact Form 7? It might be using an ineffective method to combat the specific type of bot attacks you’re facing. Fortunately, I have a solution for you! Antispam for Contact Form 7 is a simple yet highly effective plugin that protects your mailbox from bot flooding. Say goodbye to tedious configurations and captchas, which often lead to reduced conversions and inconvenience for genuine users. Our plugin utilizes a combination of on-page and off-page bot traps, along with an auto-learning mechanism powered by a statistical “Bayesian” spam filter called B8. CF7-AntiSpam seamlessly integrates with Flamingo and enhances its functionality. When both plugins are installed, Flamingo gains additional controls, and an extra dashboard widget is enabled. SETUP Basic – Install and go! No configuration, keys, or registrations are required to activate the antispam protection. In this case, some protections, such as fingerprinting, language checks, and honeypots, will be enabled. Advanced – For CF7A to properly analyze the email content using its dictionary, it needs to parse the input message field of your form. To notify the antispam to check this field, you’ll need to add a “marker” to each contact form on your website. Simply add ‘flamingo_message: “[your-message]”‘ in the additional settings panel of each contact form you want to secure. This process follows the same method used with Flamingo. While this step may seem tedious, it is required for advanced text statistical analysis. Without it, the B8 filter cannot be enabled. GeoIP – (Optional) If you need to restrict which countries or languages can email you, you can enable this functionality. To enable GeoIP, you’ll need to agree to the GeoLite2 End User License Agreement and sign up for GeoLite2 Downloadable Databases. This will provide you with the required key to download the database. For detailed instructions, please refer to the dedicated section in the cf7-antispam plugin settings. Antispam Available Tests ✅ Browser Fingerprinting ✅ Language checks (Geo-ip, http headers and browser) ✅ Honeypot ️✅ Honeyform* ✅ Domain Name System Blackhole List (DNSBL) ✅ Blocklists (with automatic ban after N failed attempts, user defined ip exclusion list) ✅ Hidden fields with encrypted unique hash ✅ Time elapsed (with min/max values) ✅ Prohibited words in message/email and user agent ✅ B8 statistical “Bayesian” spam filter ✅ High Entropy / Gibberish checks ✅ Identity protection ✅ Webmail protection Extends Flamingo and turns it into a spam manager! With this plugin, you can now review emails and train B8 to identify spam and legitimate messages. This feature proves useful, especially during the initial stages when some spam emails may slip through. Already using Flamingo? Even better! Just remember to add ‘flamingo_message: “[your-message]”‘ to the advanced settings (similar to other Flamingo labels) before activating the plugin. Alternatively, you can explore the advanced options and select “rebuild dictionary.” Upon activating CF7A, all previously collected emails will be parsed, and B8 will learn and develop its vocabulary. This pre-trained algorithm gives you a head start. How cool is that? Additional Notes: – A new column has been added to the right side of the Flamingo inbound page, displaying the level of spaminess for each email. – If you unban an email on the Flamingo “inbound” page, the corresponding IP will be removed from the blocklist. However, marking an email as spam will not blocklist the IP again. – Before activating this plugin, please make sure to mark all spam emails as spam in the Flamingo inbound section. This auto-training process will help the B8 algorithm. – If you receive a spam message, please avoid deleting it from the “ham” section. Instead, place it in the spam section to teach B8 how to differentiate between spam and legitimate messages. B8 statistical “Bayesian” Filter Originally created by Gary Robinson b8 is a statistical “Bayesian” spam filter implemented in PHP. The B8 filter is a foundational example of Machine Learning (ML) for text classification, representing an early, yet powerful, statistical approach in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This approach precedes feature-weighting methods like TF-IDF, which in turn paved the way for modern deep learning architectures, such as Transformers and GPT. The filter tells you whether a text is spam or not, using statistical text analysis. What it does is: you give b8 a text and it returns a value between 0 and 1, saying it’s ham when it’s near 0 and saying it’s spam when it’s near 1. See How does it work? for details about this. To be able to distinguish spam and ham (non-spam), b8 first has to learn some spam and some ham texts. If it makes mistakes when classifying unknown texts or the result is not distinct enough, b8 can be told what the text actually is, getting better with each learned text. This takes place on your own server without relying on third-party services. More info: nasauber.de Identity protection To fully protect the forms, it may be necessary to enable a couple of additional controls, because bots use the public data of the website to spam on it. – The first is user related and denies those who are not logged in the possibility of asking (sensitive) information about the user via wp-api and the protection for the xmlrpc exploit wordpress. – The second one is the WordPress protection that will obfuscate sensitive WordPress and server data, adding some headers in order to enhance security against xss and so on. Will be hidden the WordPress and WooCommerce version (wp_generator, woo_version), pingback (X-Pingback), server (nginx|apache|…) and php version (X-Powered-By), enabled xss protection headers (X-XSS-Protection), removes rest api link from header (but it will only continue to work if the link is not made public). Mailbox Protection (Multiple Send) Enhance email security by enabling the “Multiple Send” feature, which prevents consecutive email submissions to the user’s mailbox. This measure is effective in thwarting automated spam attempts and ensures a secure communication environment. Security & Privacy: A Local-First Approach AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 is built with your security and privacy as the top priority. Unlike many modern anti-spam solutions that rely on external cloud services or third-party subscriptions, our plugin is designed to run entirely on your own WordPress installation. 100% Local Processing: All anti-spam logic, checks, and data processing are performed directly on your server. No data is ever sent to, or stored by, any external third-party service (including ours). Not a Software as a Service (SaaS): This plugin is a standalone, self-contained software solution, not an interface to a paid or subscription-based external service. Once installed, it works autonomously. Enhanced Security: Since there is no central server or external API endpoint to communicate with, your website is immune to potential risks associated with centralized services, such as Single Point of Failure or data breach risks. You retain complete control and ownership over the security of your Contact Form 7 submissions. Privacy Notices AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 only processes the IP but doesn’t store any personal data directly from the user input. However, it creates a dictionary of spam and ham (non-spam) words in the WordPress database. This dictionary is built from words found in the submitted messages, meaning it may contain words that were part of the user’s e-mail message or personal data. This data is “degenerated,” which means the words might be normalized or altered before being stored. The sole purpose of this word collecting is to build a dictionary used for local, decentralized spam detection. Support Community support: via the support forums on wordpress.org Bug reporting (preferred): file an issue on GitHub Contribute We love your input! We want to make contributing to this project as easy and transparent as possible, whether it’s: Reporting a bug Testing the plugin with different user agent and report fingerprinting failures Discussing the current state, features, improvements Submitting a fix or a new feature We use GitHub to host code, to track issues and feature requests, as well as accept pull requests. By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its GPLv2 License. My goal is to create an antispam that protects cf7 definitively without relying on external services. And free for everyone. if you want to help me, GitHub is the right place 😉 copyright AntiSpam for Contact Form 7, Copyright 2021 Codekraft Studio AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the LICENSE file for more details. Resources Contact Form 7 and Flamingo © 2021 Takayuki Miyoshi,LGPLv3 or later B8 https://nasauber.de/opensource/b8/, © 2021 Tobias Leupold, LGPLv3 or later GeoLite2 license GeoIP2 PHP API GeoIP2-php chart.js https://www.chartjs.org/, © 2021 Chart.js contributors, MIT Sudden Shower in the Summer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sudden_Shower_in_the_Summer_(5759500422).jpg Contibutions Mirek Długosz – #30 fixes a crash that occurred when analysing flamingo metadata MeliEve – #42 Fix “internal_server_error” when message is empty MeliEve – #61 Handle deferrer script loading Zodiac1978 – #67 Remove warning for unsafe email configuration w/o protection JohnHooks – #66 Readme + plugin env sdellenb – #66 Fix $reason parameter for calling cf7a_ban_by_ip Special thanks This project is tested with BrowserStack. Browserstack MaxMind GeoIP2 This plugin on demand can enable GeoLite2 created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com While enabled you may have to mention it in the privacy policy of your site, depending on the law regulating privacy in your state! * GeoIP2 databases GeoLite2 Country DNSBL servers privacy policies dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net www.uceprotect.net license dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net www.uceprotect.net license dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net www.uceprotect.net license dnsbl.sorbs.net sorbs.net license zen.spamhaus.org spamhaus.org license bl.spamcop.net spamcop.net license b.barracudacentral.org barracudacentral.org privacy-policy dnsbl.dronebl.org dronebl.org all.spamrats.com spamrats.com tos bl.ipv6.spameatingmonkey.net spameatingmonkey.net Inspirations, links Nikolai Tschacher incolumitas.com Antoine Vastel fp-scanner/fp-collect Niespodd niespodd Thomas Breuss tbreuss Domain Name System-based blackhole list wiki dnsbl list wiki

WPBruiser (formerly GoodBye Captcha) is an anti-spam and security plugin based on algorithms that identify spam bots without any annoying and hard to read captcha images. WPBruiser completely eliminates spam-bot signups, spam comments, even brute force attacks, the second you install it on your WordPress website. It is completely invisible to the end-user – no need to ever fill out a Captcha or other “human-detection” field ever again – and it just works! Unlike other anti-spam plugins, which detect spam comments and signups after the fact and move them to your spam folder, which you then have to delete – using up not only your website’s resources, but your time as well, WPBruiser prevents the bots from leaving spam in the first place. The result is that your site is not only spam free, it’s faster and more secure. In addition, WPBruiser is completely self-contained and does not need to connect to any outside service. Your logins remain yours, 100%. WPBruiser fights Brute Force attacks and eliminates spam-bots on comments, signup pages as well as login and password reset pages. At the click of a button, you can decide which forms to protect. Summary of WPBruiser features Standard WordPress Login form integration Standard WordPress Register form integration Standard WordPress Forgot Password form integration Standard WordPress Comments form integration Ability to set the maximum number of characters for each comment field Logging with the ability to enable/disable it Automatically Block IP Addresses Automatically purge logs older than a certain number of days Manually white-list trusted IP Address (IPV4 and IPV6) Manually block/unblock IP Addresses (IPV4 and IPV6) Properly detects client IP Address when using CloudFlare, Incapsula, Cloudfront, RackSpace, Sucuri CloudProxy, AWS ELB Provides statistics, reports, maps and charts with all blocked spam attempts No requests to external APIs Can be switched to “Test Mode” – for testing Compatible with WordPress Multisite – network admin interface ready Compatible with cache plugins (WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, ZenCache, WP Fastest Cache and others) Invisible for end users (works in the background) Does not affect page loading times Brute Force Protection Automatically detects Brute Force attacks Ability to automatically block IP Addresses Prevents User Enumeration Ability to block most dangerous IP addresses involved in brute force attacks Ability to block most dangerous Anonymous Proxy IP addresses including TOR Networks, TOR Nodes and TOR Exit Points Ability to Completely Disable XML-RPC service – it seamlessly works with Jetpack plugin activated Ability to Disable XML-RPC Pingbacks Email notifications when a Brute Force Attack is detected WPBruiser Available Extensions WPBruiser is integrated with the most popular plugins Contact Forms Extensions WPBruiser – Contact Form 7 WPBruiser – Gravity Forms WPBruiser – Ninja Forms WPBruiser – Formidable Forms WPBruiser – Fast Secure Contact Form WPBruiser – Jetpack Contact Form (FREE – merged into the core) Membership Extensions WPBruiser – BuddyPress WPBruiser – MemberPress WPBruiser – UserPro WPBruiser – User Profiles Made Easy WPBruiser – Ultimate Member (FREE – merged into the core) eCommerce Extensions WPBruiser – WooCommerce WPBruiser – Easy Digital Downloads WPBruiser – AffiliateWP Email Subscriptions Extensions WPBruiser – MailPoet WPBruiser – Easy Forms for MailChimp View all WPBruiser Extensions WPBruiser is also integrated with the following plugins: Postmatic (https://wordpress.org/plugins/postmatic) WPBruiser offers protection for the entire email commenting system Epoch (https://wordpress.org/plugins/epoch) WPBruiser offers protection for the entire chat and commenting system wpDiscuz (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/) WPBruiser offers protection for the entire commenting system MailChimp for WordPress (https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp) WPBruiser offers protection for all forms the user will create with MailChimp Ultimate Member (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member) WPBruiser offers protection for Login, Registration and Reset Password forms Jetpack by WordPress (https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack) WPBruiser offers protection for JetPack Contact Form ZM Ajax Login & Register (https://wordpress.org/plugins/zm-ajax-login-register) WPBruiser offers protection for Login and Registration forms Login With Ajax (https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-with-ajax) WPBruiser offers protection for Login, Registration and Lost Password forms WP User Control (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-control) WPBruiser offers protection for Login, Registration and Lost Password forms PlanSo Forms (https://wordpress.org/plugins/planso-forms/) WPBruiser offers protection for all forms Theme My Login (https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login) WPBruiser offers protection for Login, Registration and Lost Password forms Seamless Donations (https://wordpress.org/plugins/seamless-donations) WPBruiser offers protection for the donation form Technical support If you notice any problems by using this plugin, please notify us and we will investigate and fix the issues. Ideally your request should contain: URL of the website (if your site is public), Php version, WordPress version and all the steps in order to replicate the issue (if you are able to reproduce it somehow) Donate If you find this plugin useful, please consider making a small donation. Thank you