Can’t disable Captcha on wp-login

  • My login page has an old version of Captcha that is utterly broken and I can’t log in.

    The top of the page reads “As an added security messure, your host has introduced a captcha image to prevent brute-force attacks on your login page. You will be directed to your login page once you successfully complete the the Captcha below.”

    But it tries to get me to use V1 of ReCaptcha that has been shut down.

    I already disabled all plugins and the Captcha is still there. I tried disabling the theme and that just resulted in blank pages, and I still can’t log in. I’ve been dredging through all the code trying to find where it’s adding the Captcha and I just can’t find it. I’ve been struggling with this for a couple of days now. How do I deal with this?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hello,

    I checked the Admin Login and if we enter the wrong captcha it is giving us below error.

    Warning: error_log(/home/WP-LC/logs): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/heisa3/WP-LC/wp-lc.php on line 23
    The reCAPTCHA wasn’t entered correctly. Go back and try it again.(reCAPTCHA said: incorrect-captcha-sol)

    Try disabling all your plugins first through FTP, also try to remove your host from Google through which you might have generated the API key to activate the Captcha.

    Let me know if this info helps.

    Thanks.

    Hi there,

    Potentially the captcha is originating from your functions.php file. Search for it and comment it out.

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter heisanevilgenius

    (@heisanevilgenius)

    Hi.

    I already have disabled all the plugins through FTP. I’m not sure exactly how to deal with the API solution you suggested.

    I’ve also tried scouring functions.php and I’m having a hard time finding the captcha code. Is there something specific that would help me find it?

    Thread Starter heisanevilgenius

    (@heisanevilgenius)

    I am at such a complete loss.

    Thread Starter heisanevilgenius

    (@heisanevilgenius)

    Finally figured it out. *sigh*
    The recaptcha code wasn’t in the wordpress directory, it was the directory kartiks16 helpfully pointed out from the logs. I managed to disable it and now I can log in.

    Thanks for the help.

    I am having the same issue. My recaptcha is the v1 and I can’t login. Which directory did you find?

    @ heisanevilgenius

    Can you please clarify
    <quote>The recaptcha code wasn’t in the wordpress directory, it was the directory </quote>

    Where exactly did you find it.

    you have to “disable” the directory

    /wp-content/plugins/wp-recaptcha-integration/

    by just renaming it. Maybe with an underscore at first:

    …/_wp-recaptcha-integration/

    then login in, change manually in the adress bar to …/wp-admin/

    then enable in FTP the directory again by re-renaming it, go to Preferences/reCaptcha and change the settings.

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