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Unable to save/update form

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  1. TiborP
    Member

    Hi,I have set up a new form, added fields, saved in between; all went perfect. After taking a break trying to edit the form some more, but now when trying to save, nothing happens except the "Saving form. Please wait... " message is shown all the time. This is on WP 2.9.1 on PHP 5.2.10, MySQL 5.0.45, and a fresh install of Gravityforms 1.3.8. I did try with all plugins unabled without succes.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday January 15, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    This is some sort of conflict, either plugin or theme. Contact Us using the Contact Us form on this site and include a WordPress login for this site and we can take a look at it and see what is causing the problem.

    Something in your WordPress setup is preventing the AJAX from saving the form.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday January 15, 2010 | Permalink

  3. TiborP
    Member

    Thx for the quick reply Carl; i'll send you the login stuff. Still, I wonder why I did work in the first place, and stopped working later on.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday January 15, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Alex Cancado
    Administrator

    Tibor,

    It looks like your environment has some sort of security around receiving requests via POST. It throws a 500 (server error) when the posted content contains the words "select from". I imagine it does that in an attempt to protect you from outsiders trying to access your database. The problem is that the implementation is too strict and blocks harmless strings such as "selecting an apple from the store", or in our case "isSelected: false, from: test@test.com".

    When you click the save form button, an AJAX POST request is made to the admin-ajax.php page. In your environment this request fails when the form meta contains the words "select" and "from".

    This has happened to another user and he was able to talk to his host and fix the issue. This is what he said:
    "They changed something on the mod_security module and it seems to be working great now!"

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday January 15, 2010 | Permalink

  5. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    I must have missed this one. Look at the docs for mod_security:

    http://www.howtoforge.com/apache_mod_security

    # Very crude filters to prevent SQL injection attacks
    # SecFilter "delete[[:space:]]+from"
    # SecFilter "insert[[:space:]]+into"
    # SecFilter "select.+from"

    VERY crude, to be sure.

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday June 26, 2010 | Permalink

  6. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    Thanks for taking the time to post that Chris. The crude/lazy approach for sure.

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday June 26, 2010 | Permalink