308708 - rejection of copied random validation code

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[mary c legg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

when copied code is placed into the login box to submit comments, page responds
with error message. I tried five times with different codes and each time same
error  issue, but no problem using IE. 
this info is from rabbi Menken who owns site and welcomes technical assistance
in correcting the glitch.

"I've used Firefox successfully myself to post comments. Do you have cookies
enabled? I would *love* to work with someone who knows tech and has the
problem (since I know tech but don't), so that we can kill the beast. :)We're
using SecureImage for WP 1.5 from Tom Skrtich,
http://uberdork.supertwist.net/ .

Yours,

Yaakov Menken

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Rabbi Yaakov Menken
Yaakov Menken <[e-mail]>
Director, Project Genesis
http://www.torah.org/  -- the Judaism Site
http://www.eKiruv.com/          -- the Outreach Professional's IT Department

blog-master, http://www.cross-currents.com/

you have similar comment here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249301

thanks-- used bill the pill to get around the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.manually copied code by typing and received rejection--hit back button
2. repeated process  on same comment forum twice
3. Repeated process on other columns and feedback columns with same result

Actual Results:  
error message  here:
http://www.cross-currents.com/wp-comments-post.php
invalid security code

Expected Results:  
should have passed the security check to screen spammers and spiders/bots 
poseted the comments on feedback column

you may contact rabbi Menken--have informed him of the posting to
Mozilla/bugzilla for resolving the issue. you also have the contact to the
security software which devised the random check validation code... 

Rabbi Yaakov Menken
Yaakov Menken <[e-mail]>
Director, Project Genesis
http://www.torah.org/  -- the Judaism Site
http://www.eKiruv.com/          -- the Outreach Professional's IT Department

SecureImage for WP 1.5 from Tom Skrtich,
http://uberdork.supertwist.net/ .

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

I've tested with both 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20050914 Firefox/1.0.7 and I was unable to reproduce the problem.

Just curious, the codes that returned an invalid result didn't happen to have
any 0's or O's in them did they? ;)