AntiSpam for Contact Form 7

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117 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 97 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 75% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 15 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ LaFaucon

   9mo ago

   On WP 6.9, had to deactivate from Safe Mode. [ edit to add that the Developer kindly reached out and I’m sending to support forum] This topic was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by LaFaucon.

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2. ★★★★★ Benjamin

   10mo ago

   Antispam for Contact Form 7 offers a lot of options to tweak, making it easy to fine-tune the protection based on the type and volume of traffic your website receives. It works reliably and has significantly reduced spam submissions without causing issues for legitimate users. Erik has been great at handling support through the WordPress forums: quick, helpful, and knowledgeable. That level of support makes an already great plugin even better.

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3. ★★★★★ lemurnick

   12mo ago

   Someone got their hands dirty and broke the plugin. After the update, the field data was inaccessible, and it started banning everyone. And rightly so—the bad plugin should be removed. Long live it – $spam = true; $reason[‘no_ip’] = ‘Address field empty’; IP address field of $remote_ip is empty, this means it has been modified, removed or hacked! (i’m getting the real ip from http header). Broken plugin – solution to remove!

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4. ★★★★★ o2xav

   12mo ago

   A great plugin that requires a little thinking and configuration, but once setup properly it’s awesome. The latest version makes it even better. Good job !

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5. ★★★★★ Degas

   2.4y ago

   We’ve just found that whilst the plugin was stopping spam sucessfully, it also blocked all submissions from non-logged-in users (‘There was an error trying to end your request. Please try again later’). Recommend checking this first in case of any potential conflicts.

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6. ★★★★★ Wendihihihi

   2.8y ago

   This is becoming one of my favourite plugins. The combination CF7, Flamingo, and AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 has made me aware that many of the legitimate messages sent from the form didn’t reach my inbox. After some fine-tuning it works great. Very helpful!

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7. ★★★★★ oceandigitals

   3.2y ago

   Plugin works great, a lot of customization but also a plug and play approach with all the settings optional. The developer is really handy when it comes to solve bugs I whish him the best

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8. ★★★★★ anze

   3.3y ago

   Just wanted to say thank you for creating such a sophisticated, yet so simple plugin to use! You deserve more recognition! It has a lot of nice options to activate extra protection and works like a charm. We stopped getting spam right after I installed and set this plugin.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 0.7.6 Fix: Resolved an issue where form submissions failed on modern desktop browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) by removing the sandbox attribute from canvas fingerprinting iframes to comply with strict security policies against 0.7.6
2. — Version 0.7.5 Enhancement: Added WordPress Comment Spam Protection: Extended the plugin’s capabilities beyond Contact Form 7 to actively protect native WordPress comments against spam. Enhancement: Added Regex support for spam filteri 0.7.5
3. — Version 0.7.4 Fix: Improve message sanitization: handle arrays, skip empty/non-string values, and refine length checks (thanks to @sleepygoth for reporting it) 0.7.4
4. — Version 0.7.3 Fix: Dismissing the “Flamingo Message” notice now works correctly (thanks to @WORX Developer for reporting it) Enhancement: Improved spam filter performance with additional fallbacks for edge cases Security: Email string 0.7.3
5. — Version 0.7.2 Update fallback (thanks for the idea to @lemurnick) Fix for missing enqueue in some cases (thanks to @ohhcee, @o2xav, @WORX Developer for the feedbacks) Blocklist filters cleanup Registers the spam checks individually Up 0.7.2
6. — Version 0.7.1 Fix: Fixes a wrong escape placeholder in the prepare SQL query that was preventing to check if an IP was blocklisted. (thanks to @jackrus60 for the report) 0.7.1

All 2 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (0.7.6). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 4.3 AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 <= 0.6.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-07-16 CVE-2025-54020 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 0.6.3 Patched in 0.6.4
2. Patched Medium · 6.1 AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 <= 0.6.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-03-13 CVE-2024-27961 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 0.6.0 Patched in 0.6.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 5 languages, 0 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-08-07 9K+ → 10K+ up after 34 days in tier
2. 2025-07-04 10K+ → 9K+ down after 93 days in tier
3. 2025-04-02 9K+ → 10K+ up after 88 days in tier
4. 2025-01-04 8K+ → 9K+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-01-02 9K+ → 8K+ down after 4 days in tier
6. 2024-12-29 8K+ → 9K+ up after 101 days in tier
7. 2024-09-19 7K+ → 8K+ up after 104 days in tier
8. 2024-06-07 6K+ → 7K+ up after 64 days in tier

Competes with

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AntiSpam for Contact Form 7: 10K+ active installs, 4.2★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cf7-antispam