Blocking URLs in form submission

  • Dear CF7 support,

    After spending a few hours researching the topic, and getting nowhere, I thought I’d raise this here as a future Feature Request.

    In short, could you please include the ability to simply disable the embedding of URLs within the form submissions by either removing the hyperlink tags or any other method capable of producing the same result.

    It should be a rudimentary function of the plugin and helps improve the overall state of safety and security.

    If there is in fact a way to achieve this now then I would be greatly appreciative of any assistance.

    Many thanks.

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  • Do you have an example page to illustrate what you mean?

    Thread Starter dciphered

    (@dciphered)

    Hi Jules, thanks for your reply.

    So, essentially, when you present the user with an on-screen CF7 form, the user has an ability to enter content that’s wrapped in html tags which ultimately means they can insert a URL that’s hyperlinked.

    For example:#<b><a href="SOME-URL"></b>

    Inserting the above into a a form will include an embedded hyperlink within the email that gets sent to the form owner or intended recipient. This poses a risk and a common method used by manual spammers to insert spam/malicious links.

    I’ve noticed that a few other WP form solutions have an integrated ability to disabled hyperlinking of URLs by disabling html tags in entry fields, keeping them plain text.

    I hope that makes more sense?

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by dciphered.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by dciphered.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Yui. Reason: please use CODE button for proper formatting

    same problem for me also, content with URL going to spam.

    How can we restrict submitting URL’s ?

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