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Posted a reply to Wordfence reporting wordpress & other securityas malware, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Looks like mac is creating those files to store extended attributes. You might consider adjusting…

11 months ago

Posted a reply to Zap scanner show sql injection in wp-login.php, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
It's quite difficult to find vulnerabilities in WordPress core these days. When the code base…

11 months ago

Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@papaburke One of our guys can check if it's compromised if you're interested and will…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
The web scan? That doesn't check much and can't examine site source code.

1 year ago

Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Is it possible your site has been compromised?

1 year ago

Posted a reply to WordPress admin panel times out, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @papaburke, I'm with Wordfence - which is why this thread came to my attention.…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to WF 6.1.1 and HostGator, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Jonathan, Really great to see Hostgator helping out here. Thanks! Matt let me know…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Need clarification for Wordfence Web Application Firewall, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks Sue. That's right. If you only have a single WordPress installation this does not…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Wordfence failed to see brute force attack, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Steve, Can you please share the first three digits of the IP address. There…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to WF failed to block according to rule, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
You've misunderstood how the option"Count failures over what time period" works. Please see: https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#Count_failures_over_what_time_period Your…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Unable to download httaccess Falcon Engine and WPLM conflict, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, I suspect WPML are breaking functionality in other plugins by adding their own query…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to wpsiteguardian.com claims about wordfence, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
We have been asked to do product comparisons on the past and as tempting as…

1 year ago

Posted a reply to Cross-Site Scripting - Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, The short answer is: We won't be providing this feature and no one else…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Guys, the nice thing about being volunteers is that we can choose when and where…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Looks like spyware to me, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Incorrect. The information you reference above is stored in your own database, not ours. We…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to wpsiteguardian.com claims about wordfence, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, These claims are false and the vendor is running an aggressive affiliate program promoting…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Modified plugin file: wp-content/plugins/wordfence/readme.txt, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@WPwebbouw Sounds like you have a different problem to the original poster who was referring…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@061375 I think your issue is unrelated to renaming readme.txt. @rklrkl You're an anonymous troll…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Reports same User hostname for MYSELF as for hackers, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@scotten Why don't you drop us an email at genbiz@wordfence.com and one of our guys…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Modified plugin file: wp-content/plugins/wordfence/readme.txt, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi All, To answer your question about whether we are not following our best practices:…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Reports same User hostname for MYSELF as for hackers, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, Matt asked me to reply here. The product you've mentioned is an affiliate scheme…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
/readme.html is a core WordPress file shipped with every release and Wordfence is tampering with…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to wordfence conspiracy, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hacking our own customers. That would be criminal. We obviously don't do this and are,…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Incidentally, the issue I updated on our side (internally) is numbered 567 in case you'd…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks for helping design Wordfence guys! That was a lot. Many good ideas here. I'm…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@themadproducer: Sorry I replied to the other poster first. Should have replied to you since…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack Single Blocked IP 503, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@pingram3541: I was at the Suits & Spooks conference in Washington DC earlier this year…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Login Security options apparently not working?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @iltrev, Please post the first three digits of the IP address that is trying…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Maintenance release out, version 6.0.20, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@thenightrider, Yes this actually came up in our dev meeting today. I think what would…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Latest Update: Turning on settings that were uncheked, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @dmori, Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We've explained the issue here and how to…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Completely Unacceptable, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi @EarShell, I've checked and "Block access to the rest of the site (outside the…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to I'm stuck out, I can not log in!, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Dalton, A fast way to regain access is to go into your WordPress site…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Completely Unacceptable, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks all, this kind of data is very valuable to us. Elise, sorry we doubted…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Maintenance release out, version 6.0.20, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks for the kind feedback. We welcome comments from the community and as I mentioned…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Completely Unacceptable, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Elise, Just wanted to reiterate what Tim said. The message you received is not…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Update to 6.0.19 fails "inconsistent file permissions", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, Yes apologies for the back-to-back releases. We needed to address an urgent issue. Regards,…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to 6.0.19 reset options, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey guys, Just echoing what Tim said. Sorry about the delay in posting here, we've…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Latest update broke WordPress features, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, I'm not aware of any other reports of this since our update. Can you…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Maintenance Release 6.0.19 Failure, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Ben, Sounds like it might be file permissions on our site as the error…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Do you have a ticket system or something?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Yup, our premium support system is at support.wordfence.com and we have a great team that…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to theme-compat/404.php, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Steve, We have the higher sensitivity scan options because they often yield false positives.…

2 years ago

Posted a reply to Using Falcon Engine with WordPress in subdirectory, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Michael, Thanks for the detailed report. We are aware of this issue. Falcon used…

2 years ago