Switching to Questycaptcha solved my spambot problem completely... a question as simple as what this website about did the trick.
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Sol Invictus <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Sol Invictus <[email protected]> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Spam account creation, circumventing recaptcha > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 10:27 AM > Greetings, > > As of a few months ago, I've been getting spam pages > generated on my > wiki. I upgraded to the latest mediawiki release and I > added recaptcha > to login and anonymous edit, but spam accounts and pages > are still > being created. I added debug output to the recaptcha > extension to show > me when it accepts or denies input, but it seems it isn't > even getting > called when the spam accounts are being created. Is there a > known > security hole with recaptcha and the latest mediawiki > version? An log > example is below (with a couple modifications for > privacy). > > Thanks, > Sol > > POST > /wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=signup > HTTP HEADERS: > ACCEPT: > text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip > CONNECTION: keep-alive > COOKIE: > wikidb_algowiki__session=c6622d43e60d6161f4d071925be118db > COOKIE2: $Version="1" > HOST: algowiki.net > REFERER: > http://algowiki.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup > USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; > en-US; > rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 > [...] > DatabaseBase::query: Writes done: INSERTÂ INTO > `algowiki_user` > (user_id,user_name,user_password,user_newpassword,user_newpass_time,user_email,user_email_authenticated,user_real_name,user_options,user_token,user_registration,user_editcount) > VALUES > (NULL,'MaryannCarney','','','20110307115456','',NULL,'','','09f0f00ac09383bde1de0721eeaf2cd4','20110307115456','0') > Loading options for user 197 from database. > setcookie: "wikidb_algowiki_UserID", "197", "1302090896", > "/", "", "", "1" > setcookie: "wikidb_algowiki_UserName", "MaryannCarney", > "1302090896", > "/", "", "", "1" > setcookie: "wikidb_algowiki_Token", "", "1299412496", "/", > "", "", "1" > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
