{"id":19023486,"date":"2026-09-18T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/submission-error-condition-cryptic-reason-message\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:47:33","slug":"submission-error-condition-cryptic-reason-message","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/submission-error-condition-cryptic-reason-message\/","title":{"rendered":"submission error condition &#8211; cryptic reason message?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Situation<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using Fluent Forms, to subscribe to a MailPoet email list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Behavior<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new subscriber works fine. Someone who was already subscribed, filled out the Fluent Forms email subscription form, and received the error message: <br \/>&#8220;Suspicious activity detected. Form submission blocked x&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this because of an &#8220;already subscribed&#8221; error condition being passed back, or something else? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Testing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I disable WP Armour Honeypot, the duplicate submission goes through without an error or issue. So disabling WP Armour Honeypot removes the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the error message screenshot: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/share.zight.com\/01a0b4b5-3167-712a-976f-1cd9b68fa59b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(You can see the form: The subscription form is in the footer of all pages on the site)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(your own forums are overrun with spam, so I am asking here instead, thank you)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19023486","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19023486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19023486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19023486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}