Title: WordPress says: Technical Problem with the plugin
Last modified: October 17, 2023

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# WordPress says: Technical Problem with the plugin

 *  Resolved [meetinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetinx/)
 * (@meetinx)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-says-technical-problem-with-the-plugin/)
 * Hi, the plugin causes WordPress to produce an error. Can you help me? Here are
   the details (in German):
 * Wenn du Hilfe bei diesem Problem suchst, wirst du möglicherweise nach einigen
   der folgenden Informationen gefragt:
   WordPress-Version 6.3.2Aktives Theme: Avada(
   Version 7.11.2)Aktuelles Plugin: Captcha for Contact Form 7 (Version 1.11.6)PHP-
   Version 8.2.11 Fehler-Details
 * Ein Fehler vom Typ E_ERROR wurde in der Zeile 37 der Datei /kunden/276703_28219/
   redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/Browser.php verursacht.
   Fehlermeldung: Uncaught TypeError: forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser::get_user_agent():
   Return value must be of type string, null returned in /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/
   wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/core/Browser.php:37
   Stack trace:
   0 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/
   core/Browser.php(103): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser::get_user_agent()
   1 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/
   core/Browser.php(169): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Browser->get_browser()
   2 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-content/plugins/captcha-for-contact-form-7/
   compatibility/login/Login_Browser_Validator.php(37): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\
   Browser->is_crawler() 3 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.
   php(310): forge12\contactform7\CF7Captcha\Login_Browser_Validator->is_spam() 
   4 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/plugin.php(205): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
   5 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/user.php(180): apply_filters() 6 /
   kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): wp_authenticate_username_password()
   7 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/plugin.php(205): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
   8 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/pluggable.php(618): apply_filters()
   9 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-includes/user.php(106): wp_authenticate() 
   10 /kunden/276703_28219/redesign/wp-login.php(1241): wp_signon() 11 {main} thrown

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 *  Plugin Author [Forge12 Interactive GmbH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forge12/)
 * (@forge12)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-says-technical-problem-with-the-plugin/#post-17245170)
 * Hello [@meetinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetinx/),
 * Thanks for your patience. I’m really sorry about the delayed response, unfortunately
   we didn’t get any notification about your issue. If you have any trouble with
   our plugins, you are always free to contact us via mail or our website.
 * I’ve checked into the issue and created a hotfix to solve it. Can you please 
   take a look if version 1.11.8 resolved the problem? If not, can you give us additional
   details about the error message you got?
 * Have a wonderful weekend.
 * Best Regards,
   Marc
 *  Thread Starter [meetinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetinx/)
 * (@meetinx)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-says-technical-problem-with-the-plugin/#post-17321221)
 * Hi. It’s working. Thank you very much 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Forge12 Interactive GmbH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forge12/)
 * (@forge12)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-says-technical-problem-with-the-plugin/#post-17507875)
 * [@meetinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetinx/), great :).

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-says-technical-problem-with-the-plugin/#post-17507875)
 * Status: resolved