Title: Rate limit submissions
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# Rate limit submissions

 *  Resolved [Lukasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfed/)
 * (@wpfed)
 * [2 weeks, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limit-submissions/)
 * Hi,
   Let’s say you are using Cloudflare which supports rate limiting. CF7 uses
   feedback API for validation and when submission is successful i.e., wp-json/contact-
   form-7/v1/contact-forms/1234/feedbackIf setting up rate limiting for the feedback
   API, how can you target just the successful submission and not the validation
   errors? Since each feedback response counts towards the rate limit?

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [2 weeks, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limit-submissions/#post-18999023)
 * The API response body has the `{"status": "mail_sent"}` property on a [successful submission](https://github.com/rocklobster-in/contact-form-7/blob/v6.1.7/includes/submission.php#L124).
 * I’m not familiar with Cloudflare’s rate limiting, so this reply may be irrelevant.
 *  Thread Starter [Lukasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfed/)
 * (@wpfed)
 * [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limit-submissions/#post-18999817)
 * Thank you, I will check how advanced the rate limiting option is and see if I
   can add any response body key.

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 * Last reply from: [Lukasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfed/)
 * Last activity: [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limit-submissions/#post-18999817)
 * Status: resolved