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Unexplained Blank Form Emailed?

CardOneConcepts 26 Jan, 2014
Hello,

I had strange thing happen today that has me scratching my head wondering how it occurred?

I have recently created a form set up at the page below, I am using ChronoForms5 on Joomla 3.2:
http://www.cardoneconcepts.com/request-quote.html

I have the form set up with various required fields and ReCaptcha.

Yet today I got an email from the form but all the fields were there should have been data were blank? I also have the "reply to" set up to dynamically add in the email address that is entered on the form. Oddly enough aside from all the fields being blank the reply email address was reply@localhost.com.

So whats going on? Why and how was my form triggered to send me an email with no data in the fields. I did a test of the form since this occurred and it functions as it should and I was emailed with the field data in the email?

Was my form hit by some kind of a hack or spambot or something that was able to bypass the required validations? If so How do I help combat this?

Thank you for your time.
GreyHead 26 Jan, 2014
Hi CardOneConcepts,

Please see this FAQ which suggests one possible cause.

Bob
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