How are comments being left on a site under a Maintenance page?

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I just had a surprise… for the second time. Same comment was left a couple of weeks ago at the same web site that is under a Maintenance page. I would have thought that nobody could get at any of the pages while Maintenance is activated. Here’s what I found as the “comment” that came to me by email notification from my wordpress installation:

Author: GDIZ (IP address:)
Email:
URL:
Comment:
Hi! Sorry i just curious, what template did you use for your website? I want to use it on my website at

How is SPAM like this managing to get through the Maintenance page?

Thanks for your time.

  • This topic was modified 7 hours, 46 minutes ago by James Huff.
  • This topic was modified 7 hours, 45 minutes ago by James Huff. Reason: email address, IP address, and spam URLs removed from public forums

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