PHP Question2Answer form security violation

Question

Checking the error log I found thousands of errors like this:

PHP Question2Answer form security violation for vote by anonymous (key cookie mismatch) on / via http:

PHP Question2Answer form security violation for login by anonymous (key cookie mismatch) on /login?to=402%2Flogin via http:

PHP Question2Answer form security violation for buttons-4860 by anonymous (key cookie mismatch) on /4860/

PHP Question2Answer form security violation for register by anonymous (key cookie mismatch) on /register?to=

And so on.

How can I fix this ?

Thank you.

Comments

Anyone that can help with this ?

Thank you.

Answer 1

That just means a form was submitted with invalid data. Most likely, they are just bots. For example, there is no form in Q2A that would be displayed to allow a not-logged in user to vote. However, the first "error" is telling you that such a form was submitted.

Just ignore those errors because they are not errors at all!

Comments

Those are a lot of logs, but good to know.

Thank you.

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I've just suggested to update this behavior. Let's see what happens. If it is important for you to get those logs cleaner, you can apply the following change to the core: https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/460/files

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Thanks for that!