Title: fatal errors with Hcaptcha
Last modified: January 17, 2025

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# fatal errors with Hcaptcha

 *  Resolved [DensitySK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/densitysk/)
 * (@densitysk)
 * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-with-hcaptcha/)
 * Hi,
 * I am getting emails from my website that hte site is experiencing technical issues
   and I should access it via recovery mode.
 * Following errors were visible and related to hcaptcha
 * Plugin is updated to the most recent version Version 4.9.0 
 *     ```wp-block-code
       WordPress version 6.7.1Active theme: Shopkeeper - The Child Theme (version 2.0) Current plugin: hCaptcha for WP (version 4.9.0) PHP version 8.4.2Error Details=============An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 400 of the file /data/xxxxx/web/wp-content/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/src/php/WPForms/Form.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function HCaptcha\WPForms\wpforms_get_captcha_settings() in /data/xxxxx/web/wp-content/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/src/php/WPForms/Form.php:400Stack trace:#0 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-content/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/src/php/WPForms/Form.php(61): HCaptcha\WPForms\Form->is_wpforms_provider_hcaptcha()#1 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-content/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/src/php/WPForms/Form.php(49): HCaptcha\WPForms\Form->init_hooks()#2 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-content/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/src/php/Main.php(1445): HCaptcha\WPForms\Form->__construct()#3 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(324): HCaptcha\Main->load_modules('')#4 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(348): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)#5 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)#6 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-settings.php(559): do_action('plugins_loaded')#7 /data/xxxxxk/web/wp-config.php(85): require_once('/data/f/c/fc2fe...')#8 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-load.php(50): require_once('/data/f/c/fc2fe...')#9 /data/xxxxx/web/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php(22): require_once('/data/f/c/fc2fe...')#10 {main}  thrown
       ```
   
 * Can you please check?

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 *  Thread Starter [DensitySK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/densitysk/)
 * (@densitysk)
 * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-with-hcaptcha/#post-18250307)
 * In the meantime I had to deactivate hcaptcha because the fatal errors were getting
   very frequent
 *  Plugin Contributor [kaggdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaggdesign/)
 * (@kaggdesign)
 * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-with-hcaptcha/#post-18250423)
 * Hi, [@densitysk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/densitysk/),
 * This is already fixed in v4.10.0 and will be released in February. So far, you
   can download an RC version form [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/193BnzeF-Hk4no26qi596rNCQk5kiG-v-/view?usp=sharing).
 *  Thread Starter [DensitySK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/densitysk/)
 * (@densitysk)
 * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-with-hcaptcha/#post-18251376)
 * thank you. I have installed the RC version and so far it does not show errors.

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 * Last reply from: [DensitySK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/densitysk/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-with-hcaptcha/#post-18251376)
 * Status: resolved