Registration without required fields possible?

14 years 6 months ago #112251 by mibert
Hi there,

I am using CB 1.2.1 on a Joomla 1.5.14 website and I am facing the problem, that some spam bots (mail.ru) register at my website without filling all the required fields.

Is there any idea, how they can do this and how I can prevent them from doing this.

This seems to be somehow related to an update from J1.0 to J1.5, which I have done last week. Before this did not happen.

Thanks in advance for your advise.

Best regards and have a nice weekend

Michael

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14 years 6 months ago #112326 by mibert
In the meantime I have installed and activated Catchpa but still Spambots can register.

Actually they use the com_user registration mask to register and not the comprofiler mask.

Any idea, how to stop this would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance and best regards

Michael

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14 years 6 months ago #112329 by mibert
Fixed it.
I have added some redirect to the htaccess file to prevent registration through the Joomla core:

Redirect /index.php?option=com_user&task=register MYDOMAIN.com/index.php
Redirect /component/user/register MYDOMAIN.com/index.php

I think that should fix it.

Best regards

Michael

Post edited by: mibert, at: 2009/09/26 10:58

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14 years 6 months ago #112379 by mibert
Hi there,

seems that this is not fixing the issue.
Somehow the /index.php?option=com_user&task=register is still working even I created a redirect:

Redirect /index.php?option=com_user&task=register MYDOMAIN.com/index.php

I am really wondering, why nobody seems to be intressted in this topic.

Is it a very stupid question and nodody else facing this issue??

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Best regards

Michael

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14 years 6 months ago #112405 by nant
Follow installation instructions and turn off Joomla registration.

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14 years 6 months ago #112492 by mibert
Hi there,

sorry for the stupid question.
I have actually tried to disable the Joomla Registration before, but at that time also the CB Registration did not work.

I simply forgot to set it to "yes, independently of global site setting"

Anyway, now my problem is solved and thanks for the hint.

Best regards

Michael

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