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Blank captcha field lets forms submit

Forms submit with the captcha field left blank, and a reported security hole in the captcha has gone without a visible update.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 27 August 2018 · last reported 8 March 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners report that leaving the captcha field empty still lets login, registration and comment forms go through.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.