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  • angelsm
    Participant

    Hi! We have had a lot of spam messages and have deleted them from the database with phpMyAdmin, but the new message icons do not disappear. How can we solve the problem?

    marbaque
    Participant

    Thanks, I haven’t found an easier solution. This is a very annoying missing function in Buddypress. To delete all messages by a user should be available due to increasing spam bots these days.

    I am also using plugins like reCaptcha, WPBruiser, and Aksimet, which stops spammers, but we still get one every now and then.

    #310043
    freykarts
    Participant

    Thank goodness, you already solved the problem. Just beware of spams, block them immediately or unsubscribe

    #310037
    Renato Alves
    Moderator

    The activation key is necessary to avoid spam users in your community. It is an intergral part of BuddyPress and I wouldn’t recommend removing it.

    Arunderan
    Participant

    Hi,

    I’m having a few dozen database error entries in the apache log every day. First i thought the WP Cerber plugin could be the trouble maker. Since this entries are all connected with failed login attempts with wrong user names. Most probably Spambots. But the WP Cerber developer told me that this is a Buddypress issue. See this issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-you-have-an-error-in-your-sql-syntax-5/#post-12366843

    So i kindly ask for support here.

    Such a log looks usually like this. A few attempts from always the same non existing user name before it gets locked by WP Cerber:

    WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘WHERE active = 0 AND user_login = ‘AveryZem’ ORDER BY signup_id DESC LIMIT 0, 1′ at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM WHERE active = 0 AND user_login = ‘AveryZem’ ORDER BY signup_id DESC LIMIT 0, 1 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘init’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, {closure}, cerber_wp_login_page, require(‘wp-login.php’), wp_signon, wp_authenticate, apply_filters(‘authenticate’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_core_signup_disable_inactive, BP_Signup::get, referer: https://bforartists.de/bfa-login/

    The page is unfortunately already productive. So i cannot turn off addons wildly anymore.

    Could you please help me to get rid of this errors please? ????

    Kind regards

    Arunderan

    #309956

    In reply to: Spam via messages.

    jobcareercritic
    Participant

    i have a spam problem in my forums section and Wordfence, which i have installed, suggested my problem maybe this. their words:
    “You will need to ask the BuddyPress plugin authors for current best recommendations if they are recommending very outdated information on their support page to prevent spam registrations.”
    is this true and if so what is the solution? how do i stop this spam?

    #309914

    In reply to: Spam via messages.

    wasanajones
    Participant

    for a time wp-spamshield was very good – but it conflicts with other plugins making headaches — no longer available

    philippowell
    Participant

    I am getting new forum sign ups that I am wondering if they are bots or something as they have what looks like a legitimate email address but their name is just random letters. I have emailed a few of these email addresses to see if I get a response but no one seems to be home any ideas how to stop this as I have decided they are potential spammers and delete them as they sign up.

    reelscene
    Participant

    Hi guys

    I have the Aardvark theme which comes bundled with Paid Memberships Pro and BuddyPress/bbPress.
    WP version 5.3.2, BP version 5.1.2
    I’ve set the site so any non logged-in user goes to a set page, the site is essentially private.

    For some reason, the activity feed on the homepage wall only shows activities when logged in as admin. Any other user gets the message “Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.” If they post a status, it’s visible when posted and goes into the database, but refreshing the homepage leads to an empty wall again.

    I’ve only made one recommended tweak to the child theme – redirecting non-logged in users to a “public page”. I can provide the admin login if that helps.

    function my_template_redirect_require_membership_access() {
    if(!is_admin()){
    if ( function_exists( 'pmpro_has_membership_access' ) && ! pmpro_has_membership_access() ) {
    wp_redirect( pmpro_url( 'levels' ) );
    exit;
    }
    }
    }
    
    add_action( 'template_redirect', 'my_template_redirect_require_membership_access' );

    ​​As I don’t know where the problem lies I’m not sure what settings to show you. I’ve tried disabling all of the additional plugins I’ve installed to no avail. Here are the plugins I have installed:

    Aardvark Plugin

    bbP private groups
    This plugin adds private groups to the forums, allocating users to groups, and combinations of forums to those groups, creating multiple closed forums.

    bbPress
    bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.

    bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
    Sends email notifications upon topic/reply creation, as long as it’s not flagged as spam. If you like this plugin, help share the trust and rate it!

    BP Profile Search

    BuddyPress

    BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types

    Classic Editor

    Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd

    Contact Form 7

    Elementor

    Envato Market

    Events Manager

    GD bbPress Attachments

    LayerSlider WP

    Paid Memberships Pro

    Paid Memberships Pro – bbPress Add On

    Paid Memberships Pro – BuddyPress Add On

    Paid Memberships Pro – Mailchimp Add On

    Passster
    Plugin to password-protect portions of a Page or Post.

    Responsive for WPBakery Page Builder

    rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress

    Sensei Certificates

    Sensei LMS

    Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
    Display beautifully clean, customizable, and responsive Instagram feeds.

    Smush
    Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.

    Theia Sticky Sidebar

    Transcoder

    Ultimate Reviewer

    UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
    Backup and restore: take backups locally, or backup to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace, (S)FTP, WebDAV & email, on automatic schedules.

    WooCommerce

    Wordfence Security

    Wordfence Security – Anti-virus, Firewall and Malware Scan

    WordPress Popular Posts

    WP Google Review Slider
    Allows you to easily display your Google Places business reviews in your Posts, Pages, and Widget areas!

    WP-Live Chat by 3CX
    The easiest to use website live chat plugin. Let your visitors chat with you and increase sales conversion rates with WP-Live Chat by 3CX.

    WPBakery Page Builder

    Youzer

    I can send a link to a zip file of the settings of the various membership and theme plugins if that helps.

    I understand the issue could be complex but I’m a PHP developer, so if you know of some places I can look in the code or starting points for investigation that would be really helpful 🙂

    Cheers

    #309721
    Buddy Quaid
    Participant

    I answered my own question, so I’ll post my solution here.

    Page: /plugins/buddypress/bp-blogs/classes/class-bp-blogs-blog.php

    It’s a hack so I hope there is a way I can do this WITHOUT a hack. Someone please let me know!!!

    LINE: 236

    wb.archived = '0' AND wb.spam = 0 AND wb.mature = 0 AND (wb.deleted = 0 OR wb.deleted = 1) {$hidden_sql}

    LINE: 250

    wb.archived = '0' AND wb.spam = 0 AND wb.mature = 0 AND (wb.deleted = 0 OR wb.deleted = 1) {$hidden_sql}

    #309717

    In reply to: SQL Database Error

    Strothi
    Participant

    I stand corrected. The issue was / is with the Stop Spammers plugin. Couldn’t find a way to delete my post here though…

    #309550
    mizschmitty
    Participant

    A couple of recent posts have disappeared from the activity stream. I checked and they aren’t marked as spam. I switched to WP Twenty Twenty theme and the posts are still missing. What could be causing this?

    WP 5.3.2
    BP 5.1.1

    https://40dayfocus.com/activity (must be logged in as user to view)

    phiggins25
    Participant

    Hello Team,

    I’d greatly appreciate support fixing this issue that has plagued my site for the last year and has caused me to abandon the hopes of finally finishing my work. In essence, my admin account is flagged as a spammer by BuddyPress across my entire multi-site network! I am not sure where it started, although I have a hunch it was caused by the plugin “Join My Multisite”. Either way, I have deactivated all plugins and created new sites on my network from scratch but as soon as I install BuddyPress the admin account will be marked as a spammer! This is a huge problem because my site uses BuddyBoss theme, which is powered by BuddyPress! I am in extreme need of assistance here! Please and thank you.

    Here is another thread with a user experiencing a similar issue:
    https://buddypress.org/support/topic/my-account-marked-as-spammer-and-i-an-admin/

    #309205
    shanebp
    Moderator

    This works as expected:

    function test_bp_activity_add( $r, $activity_id ) {
    
    	write_log( $activity_id  );
    	write_log( $r );
    
    }
    add_action( 'bp_activity_add', 'test_bp_activity_add', 99, 2 );
    //do_action( 'bp_activity_add', $r, $activity->id );

    From the log:

    [28-Nov-2019 12:56:39 UTC] 419
    [28-Nov-2019 12:56:39 UTC] Array
    (
        [id] => 
        [action] => 
        [content] => Test action hook on Group activity update
        [component] => groups
        [type] => activity_update
        [primary_link] => 
        [user_id] => 1
        [item_id] => 1
        [secondary_item_id] => 
        [recorded_time] => 2019-11-28 12:56:39
        [hide_sitewide] => 
        [is_spam] => 
        [error_type] => bool
    )

    So just set a conditional to check if $r['component'] == groups and do whatever you want.

    #309097
    pixieblitz
    Participant

    I went into the database directly with phpMyAdmin and replaced the message text string with something like [this message was spam and has been deleted]. I originally tried deleting the database entries for the messages directly, but that still left the new message notifications and message counts unchanged so I got some user inquiries wondering where the “missing” messages went. I eventually figured out what to change in the database to correctly update the message counts, but it wasn’t very intuitive and it’s not practical for many messages, so… I’m frustrated and I wish there was a better solution, but for now that modification of the message is going to be my simple fix.

    BTW – I also use a recaptcha on signup, wordfence, a buddypress messaging rate limiter plugin, and CleanTalk – which altogether has significantly reduced the problem, but not completely eliminated it.

    #309096
    marbaque
    Participant

    @pixieblitz I am having the same problem. I marked a user as spam and deleted it, but messages sent byt the user are still visible on users activity. Very annoying.

    Did you find a workaround?

    evo252
    Participant

    Hi!
    Thanks for your reply!
    It doesn’t work. I think that it’s not spam but scam: it’s real human that register and send messages.
    Is there a way to create a rule to automatically block/remove a user who send an e-mail in the 1st message that he sends?
    Thanks.

    Raval
    Participant

    I think you can try to limit sending messages only to friends and remove sending messages to everyone. Perhaps this will reduce spam

    evo252
    Participant

    Hi!

    I tried everything. I have all these plugins enabled on my BP Install:
    Akismet Anti-Spam
    Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
    BuddyPress Auto Activate Autologin Redirect To Profile On Signup : I need to allow my user to use my network like every social network without waiting for any moderation and approbation.
    No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
    Stop Spammers

    Everyday, I have a lot of spam registration who send a lot of messages to all my members, so my network is not working now, my members cannot use it because they are all receiving a lot of e-mail notifications because of spam.

    all messages are all the same:
    “Hi dear,
    how are you my dear I’m from UK, and
    i have something important to disclose with you
    if you don’t mind please contact me, through my private aminatadennis0@gmail.com
    so that i can explain myself to you
    Sincerely.”

    It’s very very annoying.

    Is there a solution without approving each member? Because we cannot approve hundred and hundred members each day, it’s impossible…

    Thanks in advance for your help !

    #308710
    pixieblitz
    Participant

    I thought Askimet was just for comments – can you also configure it for private messages? I do have it set up and running right now, along with Wordfence, a reCaptcha V2 on registration form (and for bbPress), and a BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter.

    Right now I’m using these plugins:
    – Askimet
    – Wordfence
    – Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha (On registration form)
    – Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
    – BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter

    It helps, but apparently not enough – just had a user sign up last night, receive a spam message, and request to have their account deleted this morning. It’s obviously frustrating, so if Askimet could be doing something extra that I just haven’t configured it for, that would be great…

    But I’m not sure how it could even successfully flag the messages based on content? Some are very bland “Hi Dear, I like you profile and would love to talk, please contact me privately via e-mail at xxxxxxxx ” Which don’t seem that different from legitimate messages, except that they’re being sent out en masse from users with profiles that say they’re in US, but with IP’s in Africa, etc.

    Does anyone know if these same bots would also send out mass friend requests? I remember seeing a mention of restricting private messaging to friends, which might be my next step… But I don’t want to implement an additional hurdle for users if the bots would also just abuse that. 🙁

    Sorry for the long post, but thanks for any help!

    #308699
    David Cavins
    Keymaster

    That’s an interesting idea. What about using the Akismet anti-spam service to check the content of the message?

    I’ve also had bots send spam messages via private messaging, and it’s a pain once it gets started.

    #308693
    David Cavins
    Keymaster

    Hi @rezocom-

    That’s a pretty complicated request. I’ve used a plugin that adds a “spam” action link to activity posts, but doesn’t have an approval workflow:
    https://github.com/francescolaffi/BP-Moderation

    pixieblitz
    Participant

    Hi! I’ve had some spam users send out private messages. I’ve marked those users as spam and deleted them, BUT the private message content they’ve sent is still partly visible as the subject line and preview snippet in our member’s inbox. It’s pretty bad since for example some read: “Am Jane Robles From United State, I Lost My Parent At Car […]”, and if the user clicks on the message it just says [deleted]. Is there any was to pix this so that excerpt is no longer visible in the inbox? Thanks!

    #308654
    angrywarrior
    Participant

    @imath reporting in this person or bot(?)


    @lucydevid
    = Spammer

    See the post above..

    #308548
    pixieblitz
    Participant

    Our site had some spammer send out massive amounts of private messages. I bulk deleted them directly out of the database table bp_messages_messages, marked the users as spam and deleted them… Then also deleted the bp notifications for messages. (We have a fairly low number of actual messages on the site so it didn’t seem like a big deal.) Unfortunately now on the front-end profile tabs it indicates the presence of messages with whatever # were deleted. I can’t figure out how to reset that – even resetting to 0 across the board would be fine, if there isn’t a recount/repair function somewhere…

    Any suggestions for how I could fix this? And would deleting the users first have avoided this altogether by automatically cleaning up the messages and repairing the message counts?

    Thank you!

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