Guest can reply to topic without permission

[McAtze]

Hi,

today i had a spammer as a guest who reply to more then 40 topics. After checking the guest permission i see that guests doesn't have any permissions to post or reply in all forums.

How could he reply to so many topics? I am a little bit confused.

[Miss_B]

They should not be able to posts if they do not have permissions to do so. What plugins do you have installed btw? 

[Adriano Faria]

22 minutes ago, McAtze said:

Hi,

today i had a spammer as a guest who reply to more then 40 topics. After checking the guest permission i see that guests doesn't have any permissions to post or reply in all forums.

How could he reply to so many topics? I am a little bit confused.

You probablly has POST BEFORE REGISTERING enabled then guests has MEMBERS permission and will be prompted to create an account.

BUT if the posts is authored by GUESTS yet, then that's not the case as the posts would be visible only after the account is created.

[McAtze]

3 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

You probablly has POST BEFORE REGISTERING enabled then guests has MEMBERS permission and will be prompted to create an account.

Yes, this was the problem. So the replies was hidden for all and waiting for approving?

[Adriano Faria]

1 minute ago, McAtze said:

So the replies was hidden for all and waiting for approving?

Not exacly. You don't see, even as admin/moderator, the content posted by guests via POST BEFORE REGISTERING. They only get visible after the account is created.

I mean, you can view with the following plugin: https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9296-post-before-registering-content-viewer/

 

[McAtze]

But i saw every reply as admin and deleted it. The poster was a guest and has no member account.

[Adriano Faria]

Then it wasn't the POST BEFORE REGISTERING feature. Make sure you don't allow guests in any forums and check your 3rd-party resources. I would submit a ticket to IPS after that.

[McAtze]

I will keep an eye on it. This was the first time ever. I have checked every permission i found. Guest have just read permissions. But i also had the "POST BEFORE REGISTERING" feature enabled. I will take a look if the Phenomenon came back.

Thanks for your help. 🤓

[Morrigan]

You could open a private window and see if you can post as a guest. Normally it’s permissions but it could have also been that one of your mods flagged them as a spammer or deleted their account without deleting their content.