Contact Form 7 with recaptcha enabled not working after update

I’m experiencing the same issue. Tried to renew the recaptcha keys but didn’t solve the issue. Removing recaptcha solved the issue.

Error message when sending: Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.

please assist.

Yes, same here with GRV v3 ??

The GRC statistics show an increasing amount of suspicious request (more than usually), today the most with a scoro of 0.9

YES I also have this problem V3 is not working since the update. Perhaps the developers can look into this.

You have reCAPTCHA errors in the browser console. See reCAPTCHA (v3) and make sure your configuration is all correct.

@takayukister there are no errors in the console. I’ve created new V3 keys but issue remains. Also no errors in debug log. Only way to use forms is to disable recaptcha.

@takayukister I have some more info. Forms with recaptcha fail when plugin Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA is active. After disabling autoblocking option in this plugin the forms with recaptcha will work.

@wordpresseyemg, @pixelverbieger, @gewoonalex can you confirm you also have this plugin running and can solve it by disabling the option? I only started using this plugin last week so don’t know if both worked before last updates

We do not use “Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA”.

We are using “Borlabs Cookie – Cookie Opt-in” (v 2.2.63).
If deactivated, the form submission works once. The second attempt fails.
The failure message is #4, “Submission was referred to as spam”.

Downgrading CF7 to v 5.7.4 did not help either.

Theme is Astra v 4.1.3 – plus 18 plugins active (Astra Pro, Elementor, Elementor pro, Ultimate Addons, Maintainance Mode, etc.). So switching everything off but CF7 doesn’t work.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Christian Sabo.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Christian Sabo.

I had a similar issue; turned out to be a conflict with an outdated version of the Search and Filter Pro plugin. Took me a while to find though – checking the browser console for error message helped.

Weird that this randomly started happening in the last few days, seemingly unconnected with any other changes, though.

I have the same error message. I’ve been getting it since setting up reCaptcha, it just hasn’t been a priority to fix. If I disable reCaptcha (by removing the keys), CF7 starts working again. Adding the keys back in stops it again. In case any developers find this useful, my browser console (Chrome & firefox) get the following JS errors:

index.js?ver=5.7.6:1 TypeError: Cannot set properties of null (setting ‘innerText’)
at d (index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:7423)
at index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:7171
at index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:894
at index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:8223
at index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:894
at n (index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:1708)
at l (index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:6278)
at index.js?ver=5.7.6:1:429
(anonymous) @ index.js?ver=5.7.6:1
Promise.then (async)
catch @ recaptcha__en_gb.js:181
o @ index.js?ver=5.7.6:1
wpcf7.submit @ index.js?ver=5.7.6:1
(anonymous) @ index.js?ver=5.7.6:1

I had the same problem and I just add this script as a workaround :

This adds a span tag (because the p tag is removed and screen-reader-response seems to be mandatory)

<script> 

jQuery(document).ready(function($) { 

$('.screen-reader-response').prepend('<span role="status" aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true"></span>'); 

}); 

</script> 

Nevertheless, it works now..

Thanks @ruminez. But what AP file do I add that in? The WP code is huge and has thousands of PHP files so I have no clue where that would go (?).

Dan

@danwilliamsbooks Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I am having the same problem.

@acwaterston . No. Still got the problem and I have the latest everything including CF7. Going to just have to ditch it and use an alternative when I get around to it, I think.