• An unregistered user has managed to post. It’s not live but awaiting moderation, however they shouldn’t be able to get that far should they? This is the scenario/setup:

    • posts are restricted to registered users
    • “Anyone can register” is unselected
    • I’ve not had any register requests
    • There are only 2 registered users
    • Also checked the wp_users MySQL table, only 2 users
    • The site is not easy to find (content only intended as read-only for a group of friends) address is not published and is in a subdirectory of the domain. robots.txt is set to disallow search robots
    • Post via e-mail NOT enabled
    • “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” ticked
    • Only one plugin enabled (PWA+PHP Picasa Web Albums for WordPress)
    • The wordpress implementation is quite basic – minimal customisation of Twenty Ten
    • The post awaiting moderation is japanese and the field that would normally contain an email address contains armic-sp.si/slike/coach-b-9.html

    Any idea how they achieved this and how to block in future (I have blacklisted the IP of this posting)

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