WordPress: Secure & Accessible PHP Contact Form SPAMs Blogs

I am exceedingly pleased to announce that the one and only issue with the Secure & Accessible plugin has been remedied, rendering all of the information below irrelevant. The only issue worth mentioning at this point is that if you installed a version of the plugin prior to 4-15-2007 you should update to the latest version to ensure your contact form meets search engine guidelines.

Honestly, there is really no reason to read the history on this as the past is the past. Go get the latest version of the plugin and if you really want to stick around here how about checking out something funny.


It pains me to report this, because the Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form version 2 from Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley seems to be a nice contact form for WordPress, but the fact remains that this plug-in is dangerous and designed to secretly Spam blogs on which it is placed.

This stems from the fact there is an option that users believe will disable the display of credit links back to the author’s web sites; however, this option does not actually remove the links. It merely makes them invisible – and this is enough to cause Google to remove a site.
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