Multiple events submitted by same person within seconds of each other

  • Resolved weekendbroward

    (@weekendbroward)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    On Monday, August 19th, someone submitted a new event and it resulted in a total of approximately 30 submissions of the same event within a 1 minute time interval between 5:55pm and 5:56pm (EST). At first, I thought the person was impatient but it would be impossible for anyone to submit so many of the same event in less than 60 seconds.

    According to my server technical support, “This sounds like a self-referring script or some sort of a loop in the script that creates the new event.”

    Any ideas on how to avoid this happening again?

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  • Are you using any custom coding in the submit form?
    What errors are reported in your debug.log file?

    Were there any special characters used in the Event name, such as {}, for example?

    When I was creating the “EM Ongoing Events” add-on, there was a little coding error in one line, which resulted in 200 new events in 10 seconds on a localhost.

    Thread Starter weekendbroward

    (@weekendbroward)

    Thanks for your help Patrick. I have not added any custom coding to the Events Manager plugin. The event name did not contain any special characters.

    I checked my WP CONFIG file and found debugging turned off:
    define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false)

    I always keep WP_DEBUG on, otherwise it’s just near impossible to see what went wrong where.

    Because this happened only once with one user, there is no way to really dig into the source of it. It basically could have. been one of many options…

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