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reCAPTCHA breaks form submission and spam flags

reCAPTCHA integration fails, forces invisible v3, fixes threshold, and flags legitimate submissions as spam.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

12 public reports · first reported 25 February 2021 · last reported 23 June 2024

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

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What's going wrong

Owners who use Contact Form 7 with Google reCAPTCHA report that submissions fail, spam gets through, or valid messages get flagged as spam.

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 12 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.