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July 6th, 2009 #11

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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole
The fix will be included in v2.9.3 which should be out in August.
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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole

Originally Posted by dcowgill

The fix will be included in v2.9.3 which should be out in August.

So is the end of August a firm date for the v.2.9.3 release? You've mentioned in other threads that a blog post is coming soon on upcoming features and bug fixes. Having to wait for 2 months on a fix for this specific issue that's pretty major in regards to spam seems a little long IMHO.
July 10th, 2009 #13

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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole

Originally Posted by planetsean

Originally Posted by dcowgill

The fix will be included in v2.9.3 which should be out in August.

So is the end of August a firm date for the v.2.9.3 release? You've mentioned in other threads that a blog post is coming soon on upcoming features and bug fixes. Having to wait for 2 months on a fix for this specific issue that's pretty major in regards to spam seems a little long IMHO.

I second that Planetsean...
July 14th, 2009 #14
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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole
Alright guys, I realized the importance of this and came up with a fix which you can implement now if you don't want to wait until v2.9.3.

Edit your single.php file and remove the following line below. (Make sure you create a back up of this file before proceeding in case you come across any issues.)
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<input type="hidden" name="receiver_email" value="<?php email_spam(get_post_meta($post->ID, "email", true)); ?>" />
That was the jumbled ad owner email address that you can view on ad pages.

Now scroll up until you get to the following three lines and comment them out.
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$receiver_email = strip_tags($_POST['receiver_email']); $receiver_email = str_replace("gd6j83ksl", "@", $receiver_email); $receiver_email = str_replace("m3gd0374h", ".", $receiver_email);
Then paste this line of code below the commented out lines:
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$receiver_email = trim(get_post_meta($post->ID, "email", true));
Now test it and make sure everything works properly. You should no longer see the jumbled email address in the source code and ad owners will get the email inquiries.
July 17th, 2009 #15

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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole

Originally Posted by dcowgill

Alright guys, I realized the importance of this and came up with a fix which you can implement now if you don't want to wait until v2.9.3.

Now test it and make sure everything works properly. You should no longer see the jumbled email address in the source code and ad owners will get the email inquiries.

Seems to work nicely David. Thanks.
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July 20th, 2009 #17

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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole
Glad to hear it guys.
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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole
There is an antispambot() function built into WordPress that will partly encode email addresses.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Protection_F ... Your_Email

An interesting feature is it encodes only portions of an address, and does so randomly so the letters encoded are different each time the page loads, adding a little more firepower to the spam protection arsenal.
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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole

Originally Posted by dcowgill

Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:11 pm: The fix will be included in v2.9.3 which should be out in August.

There is only one more day left in August so does that mean the new version is coming in the next 24-48 hours? If not, can we get a realistic release date on the next version? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Potential Spam Loop Hole
Today is the 1 September no 2.93 has been sighted. I really hope it is come soon.

I love to help out you out but please read this first Have you tried to install in a root domain? Have you tried to Resave permalinks? Have you tried to disable all plug in? Have you tried the default theme of Wordpress?

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