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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

As every post with picture/link or quote is now waiting for approval, this new moderation thing is just a nightmare.

So far, using GD Toolbox Report function to let users report posts in need of moderation (and a very secure anti-spam^^). And this was perfect for my needs.

Now, forum is almost unusable with dozens posts per hour to approve only because some member quoted another. Or added a picture. Discussions are a nightmare to follow with posts validated too late, with many other answers in between. And, of course, users posting many times in a row because their posts wasn’t added to discussion.

My community is too active to ask for moderators to validate posts. This is a non-sens for my usage : posts are legit until proven not.

So : is there any way to remove this moderation option ?
Or i’ll have to remove bbpress. After many years of service and so much time to improve my forums, time may have come to make that switch to Discourse… And, yes, it may be a conflict with Toolbox tools. But there’s no way I use bbpress without GD addon.

I have a social media site I’m working on using Buddypress.

Spam accounts are signing up without filling in any of the required fields, and I don’t understand how. WordPress registration/login is disabled, all done through a 3rd party plugin (Youzer). When I go through the registration form myself, there’s no way to skip entering information such as city, country etc. All they are signing up with is a username, email and password.

How can I stop this? They’re messing up the layout of the members area, and just sending spam messages to actual members.

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/

Hi,

I have a wordpress with Buddy Press and every day i receive a lot of spams.

What can i do to stop them ?

I have an old Buddy Press and WP theme.

Hi! I have a vague idea of what I’d like to do, but I’m not sure how to write the code. If anyone could help me out, I would really appreciate it!

I want to check the BP private message content before it’s sent to compare it to the previously sent message by that user. If it’s identical, I want to automatically notify the site admin, and possibly mark the user as spam. I know long term this might have false positives, but right now we’re having a serious problem with spam users sending out identical messages requesting to be contacted privately via email.

Thanks!