stoelwinder

It may be important to note that when I view the registration page, I do not see the “captcha” logo, so it could just be that it is not displaying. I tried in both Chrome and Safari but neither allows me to complete registration.

Unfortunately in my case all people automatically get 0.0, including myself..

Glad I was able to help! Stay safe!

Yes sir, that does seem to do the trick!

Error: ERROR: Your email has been banned from registration.

Realise you may need a list of all my plugins as well:

Parent Theme Name: Flatsome

Ban Hammer
Code Snippets
WooCommerce Coupon Generator
Disable Comments
Disable Plugin Autoupdate Emails
Facebook for WooCommerce
Flexible Shipping
Site Kit by Google
Header and Footer Script
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
Manage XML-RPC
Media Cleaner (Pro)
Nextend Social Login
Post SMTP
Recently Registered
Relevanssi
Webcraftic Robin image optimizer
Tawk.to Live Chat
Bitcoin Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery
WooCommerce Conditional Payment Methods
Woocommerce delete product images
WooCommerce Free Shipping Per Product
WooCommerce Extended Coupon Features FREE
Call for Price for WooCommerce
WooCommerce Conversion Tracking
Print Invoice & Delivery Notes for WooCommerce
WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
WooCommerce Pre-Orders
WooCommerce Google Product Feed
WooCommerce Product Search
WooCommerce
Wordfence Security
Yoast SEO Premium
WP Crontrol
WP-Lister Lite for eBay
WPForms Custom Captcha
WPForms
WPS Hide Login
NicolasKulka
wpformation
Yoast SEO: WooCommerce
YITH WooCommerce Affiliates Premium
Yoast SEO: Search index purge

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by stoelwinder.

I just tested:

When I enter .knaive.com it doesnt ban a user with the above email address
When I enter blade.knaive.com it doesnt ban a user with the above email address
When I enter @blade.knaive.com it doesnt ban a user with the above email address
When I enter [email protected] it doesnt ban a user with the above email address

I have a feeling Ban Hammer doesnt seem to ban any registrations. Perhaps I have something configured wrongly in my settings? When I check the Plugins page it shows that Ban Hammer is activated and the domain is in the settings page.

The login/registration page (my-account) shows combined login and registration. Not sure if there’s something that my theme is doing?

Appreciate your assistance.

Alas that didnt work ?? I entered in Ban Hammer settings:

.knaive.com

Last night a user with this email address managed to register: [email protected]

Has this issue been resolved yet?

Sweet! Thanks a bunch!

YITH? Any advice?

@priyankajagtap Please ignore, seems it was a different extension.

Is there a way to debug the cron process more to figure out the source of the cron issues? I’ve had a combination of issues on this host in the past, which resulted in me having to install the Post SMTP plugin to allow mails to be sent by SMTP instead of PHP Mail.

As for the cron issue, they’ve been around for a while longer, but went away with the ALTERNATE_WP_CRON change. Now I’m just wondering if it is ALTERNATE that is causing the issue, Post SMTP, cron in general or the Abandoned Cart plugin made some weird update.

You’d have to check whether the IP address that is submitting all these abandoned carts is the same as mine first, otherwise it really doesnt do much good. But I was able to find out by checking the IP address in the abandoned cart plugins overview page and hovering over the “From” flag. This gave me a couple of IP addresses and I noticed a similarity between them.

Next, I went to the following website:
https://www.ultratools.com/tools/asnInfoResult?domainName=

There you should see the ASN for the IP (its the 2 letters and 6 numbers combination at the top).

Next, I went to the following website to find all the IP addresses associated with that ASN:

https://www.enjen.net/asn-blocklist/

Make sure you select “HTAccess Blocklist” from the drop-down. This gave me the code to add to my .htaccess file.

At the same time, if you use a firewall on your host (or on Cloudflare for example), you can at times just add the ASN to the Firewall rules to block that entire range.

Hope this helps.

I was able to avoid it by blocking the ASN for Huawei from which all these attacks seem to be coming. I also added all their IP ranges to my .htaccess and now no longer have the spam abandoned carts.

Basically, they’re trying to add (usually 2 of the same) items to your cart, preferably with special characters in the name, in the hope that they can exploit a bug from an older version of the abandoned cart plugin.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by stoelwinder.

@nickirongate

All my plugins and themes are always updated to the very latest version, so the issue is not with that. Also the issue with cron (and also with email) has been going on for a very long time, but with WP_CRON_ALTERNATE, now the Pre-Orders plugin’s cron jobs are running fine.

When I go to Settings > Cron Schedules, I can see all the cron jobs there and when I click on Run Now for the wacv (the abandoned cart plugin) I get no error messages in my mailbox.

When I say that in the past I’ve had problems with email is because I would occasionally not get my order notification emails. I since installed POST SMTP which seems to fix the issue (moving away from PHPMail). I had reached out to my host regarding this before, but they claimed they didnt see anything odd in the logs.

Sorry to keep bothering you on this, but what can I double to troubleshoot the issue further? Disabling the plugin will make this specific error message go away, but also kills the functionality of the plugin. I’ve searched their support forums, but there dont appear to be similar cases either.

If I go to Cron Schedules and select Run Now, does it make sense that I dont get an error message all the time? Is the issue with the mail sending or with ALTERNATE_WP_CRON?