Posting as a Guest : spam attack

[Saurabh Jain]

Guests cannot post - as per permission

however  some one  is posting link -  I have deleted three times...  they all were with different names

[Adriano Faria]

It was probably the Post Before Registering feature. The account was confirmed/created using the name KatringaTwisa and then deleted and kept the content.

Check the moderator logs to see if any moderator has deleted it.

[Saurabh Jain]

I am the only one person ...as admin

2. I deleted post and then there was new post ..... again and this happened thrice with new names

[opentype]

As mentioned, the name “Guest [something]” suggests, that these posts were NOT made by guests, but by (now deleted) members. The “guest” in the name doesn’t mean that this is a guest post, but that the account has been deleted. 

[Marc]

It does look like, as mentioned above, its people who have since been deleted. Do you by any chance have something on your site whereby users can delete themselves?

[Marc]

Did you manage to find the answer to this?

[JEFF MACK]

I am running into this issue now more frequently.  I have a 3 post moderator rule that people's posts will not show unless approved by a moderator.  These people never posted to be approved so I do not know how these posts are being published.

[Jim M]

1 minute ago, JEFF MACK said:

I am running into this issue now more frequently.  I have a 3 post moderator rule that people's posts will not show unless approved by a moderator.  These people never posted to be approved so I do not know how these posts are being published.

Was this posted by a previous user who was deleted?

[JEFF MACK]

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

Was this posted by a previous user who was deleted?

No, this person never existed.  In the last 3 weeks, I had 4 of these types of posts all from different "Guest" named bots.

[Jim M]

5 minutes ago, JEFF MACK said:

No, this person never existed.  In the last 3 weeks, I had 4 of these types of posts all from different "Guest" named bots.

Are you able to provide me to a link of an existing post?

[JEFF MACK]

Ok I think I found the issue.  I went into Groups, then Guests, and scrolled down the list of forums.  There was a checkmark in the "post" column.  Not sure how this one forum that has existed for years had this, but I have removed that.  Let me see if this continues.  Not sure why I did not look there earlier.

Edited February 7, 2022 by JEFF MACK

[Jim M]

Excellent. Please let us know if that does or does not resolve the issue.