255766 - No anti-spamer filters are applied to the title and/or content of the bug

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Jose Antonio Coret]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: 

An spamer (or any other **** person) can insert propaganda in the title and/or content of 
bug. 
 
For example :  
 
Wins $20.00 clicking Here!!!! 
Buy viagra now only for $10.00!!! 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login in Bugzilla. Click to enter a new bug 
2.In the summary and/or details fields insert, in example, the following text :  
 
Buy viagra now only for $10.00!!! 
 
 
 
Actual Results:  
The propaganda is happily inserted and, is too easy to create a simple robot to make it an 
automated process. 

Expected Results:  
Filter it and deny this practice and/or make any check to ensure that the "caller" is a human, 
not a robot. For example, by typing a text that is displayed in an image. 

I found the same bug in Mantis Bugtracker.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I really don't know if we'd want to do that.  That's the kind of thing that
would best be handled by fast acting folks getting the bugmail to disable the
offender's account.  One thing making that harder to do is you have to sign up
for an account before you can file a bug, and the email address they sign up
with has to work before they can get in (because it mails the password).

People have the same problems with comments on their blogs.                    
                                                                   

Comment 2

[Vlad Dascalu]

Maybe a configurable parameter that will turn on/off a CAPTCHA test upon account
creation or/and comment posting?

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

mkanat and me both agree with justdave: we don't want that. I would hate having to type the text displayed in an image everytime I do some changes => WONTFIX.