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Enforce Captcha in web form

Forms without captchas can be misused by bots to send spam. Until now, captchas were preset but could be deactivated. The option to deactivate them can now be disabled, so that a captcha must always appear on all forms.

The administration can disable the option to deactivate captcha in forms for individual sites or subsites.

This is done by using the sitemap attribute “captcha.required”, which can be set to “true” or ‘false’. The sitemap configuration can be edited in the sitemap editor in the burger menu under “Advanced - Sitemap Configuration”; the “Attributes” tab allows you to edit attributes.

If the attribute is set to “true”, forms that do not have a captcha configured will no longer be displayed. Instead, a warning is issued to the editor in the page editor that no captcha is activated for the form. For visitors to the website, a neutrally worded message is displayed instead of the form, stating that the form is currently unavailable.