DigitaleZen AntiSpam Shield for CF7
🛡️ DigitaleZen AntiSpam Shield for CF7 is a lightweight yet powerful plugin that protects Contact Form 7 forms from spam, bots, and suspicious submissions.
It combines a multi-layered defense system, including:
- Invisible honeypot field
- Hourly-expiring SHA256 token
- Automatic flood protection
- Temporary IP firewall
- Real-time blacklist updates every 24h (StopForumSpam, Spamhaus, SpamCop)
- Advanced CSV logging
- Interactive dashboard with chart and bot log
- Weekly report via email (configurable)
✅ No complex setup. No CAPTCHA. No data collection. Works out-of-the-box.
Features
- 🔐 Invisible honeypot protection
- ⏱️ Minimum send time (4 seconds)
- 🔑 SHA256 token valid for 2 hours
- 🧱 Soft IP firewall (10-minute ban)
- 📩 Dynamic blacklist: IPs, emails, domains, keywords, usernames
- 💥 Flood protection: 3 submissions = auto ban
- 🧾 Detailed logging (date, IP, email, reason, trigger)
- 📈 Interactive chart of blocked spam by type and timeframe
- 📬 Weekly email reports
- 🧘 Clean and minimalist DigitaleZen-style UI
- 🔒 Admin-only dashboard access
External services
This plugin periodically downloads an updated anti-spam blacklist from a service operated by DigitaleZen and hosted on Google Apps Script (domain: script.google.com).
• Purpose: fetch a JSON list of abusive/disposable emails and domains used by the plugin’s firewall checks. • When data is sent: once per day via WP-Cron (and when an admin triggers a manual update). • What data is sent: no form submissions and no user personal data are sent. The request is server-to-server (HTTP GET) and only standard headers (e.g., User-Agent) are included. • Storage: the downloaded JSON is stored locally within your WordPress site (e.g. under wp-content/uploads in a plugin-specific folder).
Provider policies (service owner): DigitaleZen — https://digitalezen.it/terms/ • https://digitalezen.it/privacy-policy/ Hosting platform policies (infrastructure): Google — https://policies.google.com/terms • https://policies.google.com/privacy