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A site I manage running on EE 1.7 has a consistent problem with search spam. I have tried limiting the “maxlength” of the search input field, but the spammers still manage to consistenly get their full garbage URLs (some well over 100 characters) into the search. The maxlength does work for me and other users, but am I missing something?

Hi sv,

Can you tell us a bit more about how this problem is manifesting itself? Are you logging and displaying all site searches?

Cheers

Greg

I am seeing the spam in the search log.

Hi sv,

I’m referring this thread to the rest of the team. Thank you for your patience. We’ll respond as soon as we can.

Cheers

Greg

I am having the same problem. Lotssss of spam coming in through the search form, and blacklisting doesn’t help.

Example row from search_log:

| 893126 |    1 |      0 |        | 178.238.232.244 |  1320492100 | site     | rmtuetlpgufo Capital Online Revenue sxQTvvM url=http://cliffsideweb.com/ make money online /url cmEkoUq http://cliffsideweb.com/ work home JjbroHZ Locksmith Louisiana QisfwtV url=http://247locksmith& |

And we got hundreds a day :(

Any idea how to solve this? (EE 1.6.8)

Hello avroo,

Are you seeing this being stored anywhere other than the search log? Is it showing up anywhere else on the site? I don’t know of anyway to block this other than to limit the number of characters in the input field. For example,

<input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" size="18" maxlength=“25">

Thanks!