Riccardo Rosignoli

🛡️ 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:
<ul>
<li>Invisible honeypot field</li>
<li>Hourly-expiring SHA256 token</li>
<li>Automatic flood protection</li>
<li>Temporary IP firewall</li>
<li>Real-time blacklist updates every 24h (StopForumSpam, Spamhaus, SpamCop)</li>
<li>Advanced CSV logging</li>
<li>Interactive dashboard with chart and bot log</li>
<li>Weekly report via email (configurable)</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
✅ No complex setup. No CAPTCHA. No data collection. 
 Works out-of-the-box.
</blockquote>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>🔐 Invisible honeypot protection </li>
<li>⏱️ Minimum send time (4 seconds) </li>
<li>🔑 SHA256 token valid for 2 hours </li>
<li>🧱 Soft IP firewall (10-minute ban) </li>
<li>📩 Dynamic blacklist: IPs, emails, domains, keywords, usernames </li>
<li>💥 Flood protection: 3 submissions = auto ban </li>
<li>🧾 Detailed logging (date, IP, email, reason, trigger) </li>
<li>📈 Interactive chart of blocked spam by type and timeframe </li>
<li>📬 Weekly email reports </li>
<li>🧘 Clean and minimalist DigitaleZen-style UI </li>
<li>🔒 Admin-only dashboard access</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
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

DigitaleZen AntiSpam Shield for CF7

The ultimate shield for Contact Form 7. Blocks spam with honeypots, tokens and a live blacklist—no CAPTCHA.

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