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Captcha

The CAPTCHA is a feature intended to distinguish human from machine input and protect websites from the spam and different types of automated abuse. Imunify360 uses reCAPTCHA service.

There are two layers in CAPTCHA behavior:

  1. If a user of a website is added to the Grey List (the access is blocked), then the CAPTCHA allows him to unblock himself. When he tries to get to the website he is redirected to the Captcha Server by ipset, where he can see the protection page asking to confirm that he is not a robot by ticking a checkbox.

Note

The IP address on the screenshot above is given as an example.

If successful, a user is redirected to the website, which means that the access is unblocked and the IP address of this user is removed from the Grey List.

It is also possible to enable the invisible reCAPTCHA via the Imunify360 Settings page. With the invisible reCAPTCHA enabled, a human user is not required to go through human confirmation - the process will pass under the hood and a user will be redirected to the website. In case if invisible reCAPTCHA failed to detect if a user is a human or not, then visible reCAPTCHA appears.

  1. The CAPTCHA is always on guard of the websites and checks the activity of each IP. With the help of reCAPTCHA it blocks bots and protects websites from spam and abuse. To learn more about reCAPTCHA follow the link.

The reCaptcha supports localization. Depending on user’s browser settings, reCaptcha will use the browser default language and allow to change it:

Captcha page customization

To modify footer, header or body of the CAPTCHA use the templates in /usr/share/imunify360-webshield/captcha/templates/.

There are three files:

  • head.tpl – this file goes inside <head></head> tags. So you can add JavaScript, CSS styles, etc.

  • body.tpl – the main template file, modify it as you wish. CAPTCHA goes above all the layers.

  • static – here you can place images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. and access these files as /static/<filename>.

To find information on supported browsers follow this link https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/6223828.

Update Captcha localizations

Note

Custom Captcha localization is available starting from Imunify360 version 2.6.0 and later.

A user can change the text of captcha messages for the supported languages. Note that adding custom language is not supported.

To change the text of the Imunify360 Captcha and update the localizations text, please do the following:

  1. Locate appropriate Captcha localization files by running:

    ls /usr/share/imunify360-webshield/captcha/translations/locale/{lang}/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
    For example for Polish language the catalog looks like this: 
    /usr/share/imunify360-webshield/captcha/translations/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

  2. Update Captcha localization files by editing msgstr "my customization or translation" for appropriate msgid “original plain english text".

    Where msgstr contains text that is shown to user and msgid contains Captcha original English text.

    For example:

    #: templates/index.html:154
msgid ""
"We have noticed an unusual activity from your <b>IP {client_ip}</b> and "
"blocked access to this website."
msgstr ""
"Zauważyliśmy nietypową aktywność związaną z twoim adresem <b>IP "
"{client_ip}</b> i zablokowaliśmy dostęp do tej strony internetowej"

  3. To add Polish translation edit text in the msgstr field. To change the text for a default English translation, edit text in the msgid field.

  4. Save files.

  5. When translation in messages.po files is finished, restart imunify360-webshield service:

service imunify360-webshield restart
6. Block yourself (remove your IP from Imunify360 White List and try to log in to the server via ssh with wrong password until it blocks you). Then go to website and log in. Captcha should appear. Set Polish language and assert that new text is displayed.

CDN Support 3.8+

Starting from version 3.8 Imunify360 correctly graylists and blocks IPs behind Cloudflare and other CDNs (see here for the full list).

Imunify360 passes all requests from CDN through WebShield, and uses CF-Connecting-IP and X-Forwarded-For headers to identify real IPs.

The feature is disabled by default in Imunify360 version 3.8 but will be enabled in the future versions.

To enable it now, add the following section to the Imunify360 config file (/etc/sysconfig/imunify360/imunify360.config):

WEBSHIELD:
 known_proxies_support: true
And restart WebShield For EL6: 
service imunify360-webshield restart
For other systems: 
systemctl restart imunify360-webshield

Note

If you are using cPanel/EasyApache3, Imunify360 will not automatically deploy mod_remoteip, and log files will show local server IP for visitors coming from CDN. EasyApache 3 is EOL in December 2018, and we don't plan to add automated mod_remoteip setup and configuration for it.

Note

For cPanel/EasyApache 4, Plesk, DirectAdmin and LiteSpeed mod_remoteip will be automatically installed and configured.

Supported CDN providers:

  • Cloudflare: December 2018
  • MaxCDN: December 2018
  • KeyCDN is not supported at the moment, ETA is not yet available.

Useful links:

WebShield introduction for server administrators

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