WP Captcha plugin causes critical error “an active php session was detected”..

Hi, firstly a big thanks for your great plugin and hard work.
I am getting critical error warnings in my “Site Health” page on many websites, and I have tracked the issue down to your plugin, WP Captcha. When I disable it the errors go away, and if I re-enable it they return. The 2 errors that appear are:

An active PHP session was detected

A PHP session was created by a session_start() function call. This interferes with REST API and loopback requests. The session should be closed by session_write_close() before making any HTTP requests.

The REST API encountered an error

The REST API is one way WordPress, and other applications, communicate with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on this to display, and save, your posts and pages.

The REST API request failed due to an error.
Error: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10022 milliseconds with 0 bytes received (http_request_failed)`

(By the way, another issue I have noticed is that if the plugin is disabled even temporarily, it loses all the settings…)

I really hope you will be able to update the plugin soon and haven’t abandoned it, as it hasn’t been updated in a while. It is the best Captcha plugin I’ve used ?? (and to help support the development work you do, perhaps you should add a small banner & link promoting the pro version in the plugin settings page? As I’m sure many of your 10,000 users would support you and purchase it if it were a reasonable price).

Thanks again for all your work,
Regards Karen