Various Profile fields are not passed through spam checker

[Xon]

Affected version

2.2.11

The following profile fields are text fields which are not passed through the spam checker:

• website
• location

Custom fields which accept freeform text are also not passed through to the spam checker.

 

[Xon]

This has come up again with a client which has had significant amounts of profile spam, and the existing XF anti-spam tools do not work at all.

Worse, since they aren't sent into the approval queue the staff can't even be notified that this is an issue!

 

[leebo]

This has come up again with a client which has had significant amounts of profile spam, and the existing XF anti-spam tools do not work at all.

Worse, since they aren't sent into the approval queue the staff can't even be notified that this is an issue!

Put us in this category as well, we see almost zero Spam on the forum but a large amount via profiles. Today already we’ve had 10 Spammers out of 35 registrations that entered Spam data into either the website field or the “About Us” fields……and Xenforo’s default spam checker is worthless here as none of the data here is checked. I’ve resorted to searching new registrations daily to find these users which are clearly spam……and it’s a pain!

 

[Xon]

X

Signup abuse detection and blocking

Nov 20, 2018

Provides a toolkit to reduce signup spam

• Xon
• Add-ons [2.x]

I've implemented a workaround so spamchecking is done on various text fields on the account details page