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