Title: Error Message Displayed Below CAPTCHA
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error Message Displayed Below CAPTCHA

 *  Resolved [Derek Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dereksimeone/)
 * (@dereksimeone)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-displayed-below-captcha/)
 * Conditional nature of the plugin appears to work along with the whole “if completed
   accurately place here otherwise place there” behavior. However, underneath each
   CAPTCHA I see the following:
 * > **Forbidden**
   > You don’t have permission to access /wp-comments-post.php on this server.
 * I am currently using one of the more popular security plugins to protect my WordPress
   site and I imagine this might be the source of conflict but I am hoping there
   is an easy answer to this issue before I go digging.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Samir Shah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarissmoke/)
 * (@solarissmoke)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-displayed-below-captcha/#post-3805531)
 * Yes, this is because of your security plugin. I don’t know of a workaround unfortunately–
   the plugin requires access to that file which is a part of WordPress’ core installation.
 * If everything still works (and the only issue is the visibility of the forbidden
   message), you may be able to hide it using CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [Derek Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dereksimeone/)
 * (@dereksimeone)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-displayed-below-captcha/#post-3805566)
 * Mind telling me what feature is being blocked by not having access to this file?
   It seems things are fully functional so I wonder why the access is required in
   the first place.
 *  Plugin Author [Samir Shah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solarissmoke/)
 * (@solarissmoke)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-displayed-below-captcha/#post-3805569)
 * Feel free to inspect the code to see why access is required. I don’t know why
   things are working despite the warning being issued by your security plugin and
   cannot tell you this without inspecting its code (and you haven’t said which 
   plugin it is).
 * Point is that it is attempting to prevent access to a file that is part of the
   WordPress core, which will always have unintended consequences for other plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [Derek Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dereksimeone/)
 * (@dereksimeone)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-displayed-below-captcha/#post-3805581)
 * Thanks for the quick responses. I’m going to take a look into the conflict between
   the two plugins and see if I can resolve it myself.

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 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Derek Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dereksimeone/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-displayed-below-captcha/#post-3805581)
 * Status: resolved