Honeypot field lets contact form spam through
The honeypot field does not stop bots, so spam still reaches site owners' contact forms, and some legitimate messages are blocked.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 13 February 2023 · last reported 30 May 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners using this honeypot add-on to Contact Form 7 report that bots still get past it and spam keeps arriving, sometimes worse than before. Some also say it flags ordinary messages as spam. Owners followed the setup guides and tried different timers and field names without success, so they feel the anti-spam step does nothing. Many are now looking for other tools. The gap is a reliable, easy-to-verify spam check for contact forms that works alongside the honeypot and shows owners what it caught and what it let through.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
CF7 Apps – Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, and Addons for Contact Form 7.
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Who has this problem
2 businesses found.
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