Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt Monday at 02:04 PM
AALBC Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 Every day I have to delete about 20 spam "guest" posts. This is a new problem and started a couple of months ago. Apparently there is a new vulnerability in the system that makes it easy to automate spam guest posts on Invision forums. These spam post only serve to irritate board administrators, because these guest posts are deleted and never see the light of day. So the motivation for spammer to do this is not clear to me... Black listing IP address have no impact, as the IP addresses used changes daily. Has anyone else seen this problem? What have you done to stop it? Block the IP address of the entire russian federation would help, but that is a brute force solution and would not completely eliminate the problem. I've even see these types of posts on Invision's own community forums Spam account registration currently outnumber normal registrations.
Nathan Explosion Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, AALBC said: What have you done to stop it? Most likely turned off the 'Post before registration' feature. Edited December 10, 2021 by Nathan Explosion AALBC 1
Solution Stuart Silvester Posted December 10, 2021 Solution Posted December 10, 2021 That wouldn't be post before registering (topics aren't visible before registration is completed and would have a valid member after registration) , it looks like the OP may have permissions set so that guests can post topics. Go to AdminCP > Members > Member Groups > Click the padlock icon next to 'guests'. Make sure that they don't have any permissions for posting replies or topics. AALBC 1
AALBC Posted December 10, 2021 Author Posted December 10, 2021 Guest posts often help keep the forum going, but I guess I have to kill that feature... Thanks guys. Marc 1
Stuart Silvester Posted December 10, 2021 Posted December 10, 2021 12 hours ago, AALBC said: Guest posts often help keep the forum going, but I guess I have to kill that feature... Thanks guys. We designed the Post Before Register feature to streamline the ability for guests to post whilst also requiring them to register. You might want to give it a try... - more information: https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/44-increase-visitor-registrations-with-post-before-registering-r1106/ Marc and SeNioR- 2
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