Spam floods forms with no usable captcha
Spam bots flood contact forms, and owners find the captcha options either missing or too hard for visitors.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 7 May 2025 · last reported 28 January 2026
What's going wrong
Owners of the HTML Forms WordPress plugin report a steady flow of spam submissions, with one describing a bot attack that sent continuous emails until they disabled the plugin.
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.