Signup abuse detection and blocking

xF2 Add-on Signup abuse detection and blocking 1.15.6

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  • Fix "Banned emails must be unique. The specified banned email is already in use" occurring when banning the same email domain multiple times in the same approval run
  • Adjust various "ASN related phrases to be more consistent
1.15.5 - Bugfix update
  • Update link to team-cymru's ip to ASN mapping service
  • Fix spam-check for account details page would check non-editable custom fields and custom fields not on that page
1.15.4
  • Fix error blocking a user editing their account details when spam checking was required, and a custom field had been set on their profile and then the custom field was deleted.
1.15.3 - Bugfix & feature update
  • Fix some options where not fully phrased
  • Fix detection method "ip and cookie" would not work correctly when email link/api switch was detected
  • Spam-check custom fields, website and location when editing account details
    • This was done at signup but not when editing account details
1.15.2 - Bugfix & maintainance update
  • Fix setting up tor detection configuration on new install
    • It was adding a "1" to the server field, which was causing a redundant DNS lookup which should fail
  • Update Tor scoring to support non-numeric scoring (ie explicit reject/moderate/add-to-group/none)
  • For new installs, enable "Show Detection Methods" option by default.
    • This option will likely be removed in future releases and always enabled
1.15.1 - Maintainance update
  • On install, only enable getipintel if the "Contact email address" option is a valid email address
  • Better handle when getipintel rate-limit is being applied to avoid server IP bans
getipintel integration & shared hosting
The getipintel feature has a 500 queries per day limit on the free plan.

When using shared hosting, this include XenForo Cloud, you may receive the following error:
[SignupAbuseBlocking] Server appears banned from https://getipintel.net/, disabling getipintel option

If this happens, you can contact getipintel for information about a paid plan. Re-enabling the integration using the free plan may result in further (and longer lasting) IP bans from this service.

1.15.0 - Feature update
  • Require Standard Library by Xon v1.18.0+.
  • Fix "Allowed email domains" admincp page didn't assert a specific admin permission
  • Fix warning being logged when viewing Signup Abuse blocking options & Content Title history add-on is enabled
  • Detect multi-account usage for api-token logins (exposed via Frictionless Login 3rd party add-on)
  • Update default ASN block lists, this does not affect existing sites.
  • Ensure https://getipintel.com API integration is configured by default.
    • For existing installs; If this feature has been explicitly turned off, it will not be enabled.
  • Ensure various permissions are assigned to the stock admin group:
    • [SignupAbuse] Banning email domains
    • [SignupAbuse] Banning ASN
    • [SignupAbuse] Approving email domains
  • Add "Anti-Spam" navigation group under the user block in the admincp, with an updatable list of anti-spam related options.
  • Add new "Manage anti-spam" admin permission, automatically assigned to users with "options", which controls managing the above anti-spam options.
  • Add expiry & ban reason when banning users via batch user update
  • Add "Enable open port scan feature" option. This is default disabled, for sites using this feature it must be explicitly enabled
  • Fix detection of per-user email links being touched by the wrong user did not generate multi-account reports
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  • Require Standard Library by Xon v1.18.0+
  • Fix uninstaller leaving behind some cached data
  • Use php 7.2 typehinting in more locations
  • Add "Multi-account registration mode - specific permissions" option to trigger the "Multi-account registration mode - specific" action when the detected multi-account has been explicitly allowed/denied per-user permissions
  • Require Standard Library by Xon v1.17.0+
  • Uses standardized route building to avoid conflicts with other 3rd party add-ons
  • Add specific message in the thread view for why a user can't reply to a thread when the per-day limit has been reached
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  • Require php 7.2+
  • Fix score-based option did not correctly show the hint/explain text in admincp
  • Move "Non-allowed email action" option into "Connection Profiling - Passive" group
  • Extend "Writing before registering" spam-checks to use add-on's scoring system, with defaults to moderate if the linked content is moderated or rejected (XF default)
  • Add "[SignupAbuse] Limit user to replies per day" per-forum user-froup permission
    • Limit a member (not guest!) to X replies/new-threads per-day (ie the last 24 hours)
    • 0 or -1 mean no limit
    • Does not apply to users with "Manage any thread" permission
  • When multi-account report creator validation fails, log an error to help diagnose why
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  • Fix caching not occurring for external API calls if a caching provider is not setup
  • Fix "Undefined offset: 2" from ASN resolver attempting to extract a country when using non-Team Cymru/Ripe ASN providers.
  • Guard against add-ons which incorrectly implement XenForo Entities or content types when generating a list of content-types for the options;
    • Approval queue - skip click-to-shrink
    • Link Spam checker: Default action (by content type)
    This is known to affect add-ons by the Vault Wiki author who refuse to implement core XenForo functionality correctly
1.10.7 - Bugfix update
  • Fix migrating add-on multi-accounts records from XF 1.x 'alter ego detector' records
  • Fix ipregistery asn lookup support
  • Report GeoIP/ASN API errors to the XF error log and do not swallow them
1.10.6 - Bugfix update
  • Fix ipregistry.co support
  • Fix bad links to known email providers in the approval queue
  • Fix "Ban ASN" option not appearing in approval queue
  • Use ipStack/ipApi/ipregistry geo/asn providers if configured over cloudflare/Cymru
  • Fix ASN lookup for ipApi/ipregistry
  • Fix "Ban ASN" feature (ErrorException: Job XF:ApprovalQueueProcess: [E_WARNING] preg_match_all(): Unknown modifier '/')
1.10.3 - Bugfix update
  • On display of registration logs, correctly encode URLs.
    • Compatibility fix with New Registration Email add-on
1.10.2 - Feature update
  • Add php7 typehinting (partial)
  • Add short caching to DNS querys lookups for ASN resolving
  • Support using Cymru country lookup as a last ditch geoip lookup
  • Add new GeoIP lookups, most require paid accounts or limited free services
    • Add support for ipstack.com for geoip/asn service. This service requires an account for the geoip, and a paid account for the asn lookup service
    • Add support for ip-api.com for geoip/asn service. This service requires an account for the geoip, and a paid account for the asn lookup service
    • Add support for ipregistry.co for geoip/asn service. This service requires an account, with a free tier and then requiring payment
  • Update GetIpIntel "private ip" error text to indiciate this can also be due to BGP hijacking
  • In user registration log, render IP's as links to ip-lookup tool
  • In user registration log, render ASN's as links to peeringdb.com to describe the ISP/network provider
  • Support setting a per-content type default for spam link check rendering
1.9.8 - Bugfix update
  • Fix php 8.1 compatibility, with csv export
  • Fix GetIpIntel integration from being soft-disabled
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