Hijacked Contact Form - Originally Created in Adobe Muse

Question

I have a Contact Form for a client website (which has since been removed) that appears to be hijacked. The posts didn't seem like spam mail where strange products/services were being offered but appeared as if individuals were using it as a message or discussion system. Below are a few of the post that I received via form submission notification:
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Ppl like you get all the brsina. I just get to say thanks for he answer.
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I saw it in the NNW sky around 10:20 PM told eoenyvre I knew they thought I was nuts, of course. I looked out the window saw what I thought was a planet. It was a large glowing Red orange orb that became brighter and brighter. After abut 3-5 mins it looked like fire and then it just kinda burned out.
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hi MinaJust been catching up with your blog posts.... some stiunnng cards there... particularly the ones in my fav colour!!Btw - if you pop on over to my blog today, you\'ll see we\'re launching a new challenge blog for lovers of pink... we\'d love you to join in the fun and help spread the word!So glad to hear that you\'ve chosen and bought your new house.... hope everything goes through well.... and no I can\'t advise - we moved three years ago after being in a house 6 years also, and my best advice would probably be \'get pickfords in to pack!!\'!! LOL! I didn\'t, and OMG.... my aching back! They did the removal, but we packed everything into banana boxes first!HugsChristine x
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Stunning! Can\'t wait to see the gorgeous dinnig room and you and Lisha and Tristan and, well everyone at KC. Love the new blog and format. Cheers and Happy New Year to all! Joy
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Cool! That\'s a clever way of looikng at it!
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Oh my goodness, I tollaty need this!My husband and I love taking photos...but carrying my camera along with my purse is soo impractical. This bag is perfect. ::crossing my fingers::
These are only a few of the recent submissions. I didn't think that there would be an issue posting the actual submission as the form is obviously being misused.
I removed the email addresses in case they belonged to innocent victims of the misuse.
The contact form was created using the forms widget in Muse and the files were uploaded to the hosting server via FileZilla. Does anyone know what this is, how it happend and possibly how I can fix or prevent it from happening again?

Answer 1

The issue is not really with Muse although the fact that Adobe doesn’t support Captcha on none Business Catalyst sites is frustrating.
The form generated with Muse will be using your ISP’s standard PHP mail script so the issues are with your ISP.  If your ISP cannot help then consider using a third party service such as jotform (http://www.jotform.com/).
Don’t forget to complain to Adobe, the only way we are likely to get good working forms on non-BC sites is to complain, also ask for other items which are sadly lacking such as drop down boxes and radio buttons.
Alternatively host it on BC and use the Captcha feature, you can do this by pointing the other site to BC site.  This is very simple within BC.