Spam on Dashboard, Missing Everywhere Else

  • Resolved novakpeter

    (@novakpeter)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    On my dashboard, is see number of spam coming: https://imgur.com/a/WNWHtrF

    But there is nothing in Comments>Spam, so I cannot check contents od these spam e-mails to check if there are any false positives or not: https://imgur.com/a/EBe55JZ

    In my Antispam Bee Settings, I have set it up to retain spam (do not delete) and send me an email, when there is a spam. But I am not getting any e-mails and the spam is apparently deleted immediately. Here are my settings: https://imgur.com/a/hWUfFtV

    For sending e-mails, I use WP Mail SMTP plugin, works without problems.

    I have also these plugins installed: WP Security. I switched off all of settings related to comments, did not help. IP2Location Country Blocker: here I have blocked various countries like China etc. But this should not have any impact on ASB because this blocks access to the site completely. I would be thankful for any help…

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hi @novakpeter

    I see some markup from “All In One WP Security & Firewall” in the comment form. Maybe this is the culprit here.

    Have you tried to comment yourself? Does it work?

    It looks like our counter is increased and for the further actions (mark as spam, send mail, save spam reason) it is broken. So I think there is someone else fiddling with the same filters/actions. The filter pre_comment_approved (mark as spam) and the action comment_post (send mail and save reason) seems to be exited before our code runs and therefor our actions are not executed.

    Please try to disable all other plugins (or at least “All In One WP Security & Firewall”) and try to comment. Does it work now?

    Edit: You can test the spam detection if you post a BBCode link. This should mark the comment as spam. But attention: You need to un-spam it afterwards, so that the local spam db feature does not mark your comments as spam in the future.

    The country blocker seems to be unrelated and if other mails are working, there is no general problem with mailing and we use the core mail function, so this shouldn’t be a general issue.

    Additionally you can look at the discussion settings. Are there settings for the blocklist which could block comments?

    Hope this helps to sort this out!

    Please report back with your findings. Maybe we can fix this together with the other plugin if there is a conflict.

    Thanks in advance!

    All the best
    Torsten

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Torsten Landsiedel. Reason: Added spam testing text
    Thread Starter novakpeter

    (@novakpeter)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Dear Torsten, thank you for the perfect analysis! I was afraid to disable the WP Security plugin completely because it tweaks so many things (like login address) and I have high number of attacks incoming (as everyone these days). However I disabled several features in the security plugin that seemed to have something to do with comments. And Voilà spam is now being stored with a reason from ASB and e-mails are coming. Now I will slowly begin to enable the fields back to isolate the exact field that was the problem. When I find it, I will post it here but it will probably take many days 🙂

    gilles24

    (@gilles24)

    1 year, 6 months ago

    Hi novakpeter,
    Having exactly the same problem, I am interested in the solution…if you found it?
    Best regards,
    Gilles24

    Thread Starter novakpeter

    (@novakpeter)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    Hi, I am not exactly sure, but it is probable that “Add Captcha to comments form” is to blame. (That is settings in All In One WP Security & Firewall plugin)

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The topic ‘Spam on Dashboard, Missing Everywhere Else’ is closed to new replies.