Remote IP incorrect – shows as our site's host IP

I think I have a solution. Go to the plugin editor and navigate to the following file:

contact-form-7/includes/submission.php

At around Line 134, you will find the following code

‘remote_ip’ => isset( $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR‘] )
? preg_replace( ‘/[^0-9a-f.:, ]/’, ”, $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR‘] ): ”,

Replace “REMOTE_ADDR” (in bold above) with the following:

HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR

When you save it, it should start showing the right IP. Worked for me.

Hi, mine didn’t work, i have:
`
$this->meta = array(
‘remote_ip’ => $this->get_remote_ip_addr(),
‘user_agent’ => isset( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’] )
? substr( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’], 0, 254 ) : ”,
‘url’ => preg_replace( ‘%(?<!:|/)/.*$%’, ”,
untrailingslashit( home_url() ) ) . wpcf7_get_request_uri(),
‘timestamp’ => current_time( ‘timestamp’ ),
‘unit_tag’ =>
isset( $_POST[‘_wpcf7_unit_tag’] ) ? $_POST[‘_wpcf7_unit_tag’] : ”,
);

Is there something wrong on this?

thank you.

Hi,

I think the code for this form has been updated since I first found the solution a year ago, so the fix is a little different now. First you will probably need to restore the section that you edited:

$this->meta = array(
‘remote_ip’ => $this->get_remote_ip_addr(),
‘user_agent’ => isset( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] )
? substr( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], 0, 254 ) : ”,
‘url’ => preg_replace( ‘%(?<!:|/)/.*$%’, ”,
untrailingslashit( home_url() ) ) . wpcf7_get_request_uri(),
‘timestamp’ => current_time( ‘timestamp’ ),
‘unit_tag’ =>
isset( $_POST[‘_wpcf7_unit_tag’] ) ? $_POST[‘_wpcf7_unit_tag’] : ”,
);

Next, go to this section below, and make sure it looks like this (changes are in bold):

private function get_remote_ip_addr() {
if ( isset( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR‘] )
&& WP_Http::is_ip_address( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR‘] ) ) {
return $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR‘];
}

That should work. Let me know if you want more help.

Great, this works perfectly now. Thank you @mykm47.