Description
This plugin has been closed as of August 21, 2025 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
Reviews
June 4, 2018
This plugin is great! However, there’s currently a pretty major flaw with how it is implemented. The wpcf7_validate() function, which essentially checks to make sure the CAPTCHA check passed, only actually validates the CAPTCHA response if the “contact_form_7_recaptcha” POST parameter is present.
So, all a malicious user would need to do would be to simply omit “contact_form_7_recaptcha” from the POST data…
An alternative approach that isn’t vulnerable to this weakness would be to load the form itself from the DB and check to see if the recaptcha shortcode is present. If it is, then the validation would proceed. If it isn’t, then validation is unnecessary.
Also, in its current form, the plugin doesn’t show any sort of feedback if the user fails to check the box. I modified script.js so that an error message (“Please check the box.”) is shown in this case.
April 20, 2017
Worked just fine, only tried/used regular Google Captcha, thank you!
March 22, 2017
1 reply
This plugin causes Contact Form 7 (v4.7) to show the ‘Sender’s message failed to send’, the fields don’t get cleared, and Flamingo puts the form data into spam.
Please advise.
March 5, 2017
1 reply
No problems so far, works.
December 2, 2016
Took a little time understanding the Google keys thingy but then was quite easy to integrate in Contact Forms 7.
Contributors & Developers
“Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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