False positive (ReCAPTCHA marking message as spam) | WordPress.org

Resolved Paul Schreiber
(@paulschreiber)

4 years, 6 months ago

I enabled Flamingo to debug the false positives I am seeing.

I got this for a recent entry:
Submission result: spam
Spam log: reCAPTCHA score (0.00) is lower than the threshold (0.50).

If this score is 0, how is this spam?

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Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi
(@takayukister)

4 years, 6 months ago

FAQ > In what cases does reCAPTCHA determine that a form submission is spam?

Thread Starter Paul Schreiber
(@paulschreiber)

4 years, 6 months ago

Ah, I had the logic inverted. I thought this was like SpamAssassin, where a low score is good.

In my case, not submitting a token at all resulted in a “spam” score. It would be good to differentiate between the case where no token is submitted and a token is submitted but the score is still 0.

The WPCF7 + recaptcha is very particular about load order, and this fails if you set the ReCAPTCHA JS to async defer, like in Google’s docs.

Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi
(@takayukister)

4 years, 5 months ago

It would be good to differentiate between the case where no token is submitted and a token is submitted but the score is still 0.

Recent versions do so.

FAQ > “Spam log: reCAPTCHA response token is empty.” What does this mean?

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