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Settings / General: Membership - Anyone can register (turned on)
7 replies · Started by albabes on March 19, 2020
Hi Leo, David, and Tom. I hope you three are doing OK during these strange times.
I'm using your Exhibit child theme if this matters.
I turned on "Anyone can register" recently, and naturally the Spam registrations spiked. I get this. What I don't get is 2 of these spammers posted a post each, DESPITE having "Subscriber" as the "New User Default Role"
Now that was weird.
I quickly removed the 2 posts and the 2 spammers.
Does anyone know why a "Subscriber" was able to post?
Thanks
Al Guevara
Hi there,
Not sure if I fully understand.
Maybe the Users must be registered and logged in to comment is the setting you are looking for?
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-discussion-screen/
This is all handled by WordPress.
No, the user posted an actual POST, which I deleted. I'm asking why someone whos user roll is “Subscriber” was able to pub a post?
Hi there,
thats odd - the only way that would be possible is if they had a high role level or they found an exploit in the site and effectively 'hacked' into the site.
Should I ask siteground DAVID?
Wait that's a dumb question.
Have you solved this?
The topic is marked as resolved.
Please close
Thanks!
