'v*agra-test-123' as author in akismet.class.php?

[chris.paschen]

I just ran a security scan (using myJoomla.com) on a site and found the akismet.class.php file includes the following code (starting around line 10):

<code>
* $comment = array(
* 'author' => 'v*agra-test-123',
* 'email' => 'test@example.com',
* 'website' => 'http://www.example.com/',
* 'body' => 'This is a test comment',
* 'permalink' => 'http://yourdomain.com/yourblogpost.url',
* );​

Does anyone have an explanation why the author is listed as 'v*agra-test-123'?

I've checked several sites with Fabrik (3.5+ updates) installed and they all have the same thing.

(NOTE: The "*" above is a "i" in the code, but the forum here won't let me post that word. Strange that we're using words in Fabrik that are banned from the forum :-o)

 

[cheesegrits]

That's just part of the usage instructions for the Akismet class (which is a 3rd party library), giving an example of content which should fail the Akismet spam test. So it's not code, it's comment.

And the reason you can't post that here is that the forums run a number of standard spam filters, and because what you tried to post is a standard test designed to fail spam filters ... no huge surprise, it fails the spam filter.

-- hugh