Wordfence Security
@mmaunder on WordPress.org, @markm on Slack
Bio
- Member Since: May 13th, 2011
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Website: wordfence.com
Contribution History
Wordfence Security’s badges:- Plugin Developer
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Created a topic, Check wordfence.status.com for Wordfence service and plugin status updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please check https://status.wordfence.com/ for status … -
Posted a reply to Ouch! | Unknown File in WordPress Core | WP 6.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
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Posted a reply to Ouch! | Unknown File in WordPress Core | WP 6.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Feedback received re pinning an item. Given the number of posts related to this and… -
Posted a reply to 2514 Warnings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've posted some additional background here. We resolved the issue on our end and have… -
Posted a reply to Unknown file WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Further clarification that this had nothing to do with firewall rules and what the underlying… -
Posted a reply to Wordfence market all WP 6.7 files as suspect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Further clarification on what the underlying issue was and that this had nothing to do… -
Posted a reply to Safely addressing the deletable files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Further clarification on the underlying issue and that this has nothing to do with firewall… -
Posted a reply to Unknown files after update to WordPress 6.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Additional details on the underlying issue along with further clarification that this is unrelated to… -
Posted a reply to Worfence flagging core Wp files false positive on WordPress 6.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Additional data on the underlying issue and clarification that it has nothing to do with… -
Posted a reply to unknown files in wordpress core, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
An additional follow-up with detail on the underlying issue and additional clarification that this has… -
Posted a reply to Wordfence Scan result Unexpected Core Files After Updating to WordPress 6.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This post provides a full explanation of the underlying issue including a clarification that this… -
Posted a reply to Problem with Wordfence is easy to resolve, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Following up on Scott's post, please read this for a full explanation. This has nothing… -
Posted a reply to Did wordpress 6.7 update got flagged as malware in Wordfence?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for doing that. I've posted an explanation here that clears up some inaccurate data… -
Posted a reply to Ouch! | Unknown File in WordPress Core | WP 6.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Guys please don't post misinformation and your own misunderstanding of how things work in Wordfence.… -
Posted a reply to [Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] SAST scan found vulnerabilities in the plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Absolutely not. You can’t just Tom Sawyer this job. Please don’t dump automated output into… -
Posted a reply to Feature request: enable Audit log without Wordfence Central, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your feedback. -
Posted a reply to Feature request: enable Audit log without Wordfence Central, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What we do is end to end encryption and then encryption at rest, but we… -
Posted a reply to Feature request: enable Audit log without Wordfence Central, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Karl, You posted on our blog and I replied there but I'll share the… -
Posted a reply to Excellence!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks very much. Founder here. Just want you to know we very much appreciate the… -
Posted a reply to Firewall Disabled on WP Engine, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
About 1 hour ago WPEngine initiated a deploy to revert the changes that caused this.… -
Posted a reply to Firewall Disabled on WP Engine, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you need a quick fix you might try this. As Scott said, WPEngine appear… -
Posted a reply to Your plugin is good, but not very good, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the feature suggestion. Regards, Mark -
Posted a reply to Patch for new vulnerability?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Will have something on the Wordfence blog and via the WordPress security email list shortly. -
Posted a reply to Patch for new vulnerability?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi all. We’re looking at this now as a matter of urgency. Ram Gall one… -
Posted a reply to Swift and efficient support., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the great review. Phil is one of our rock stars! Glad we fit… -
Posted a reply to Fantastic!! Great support and great plugin!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. I'm so glad we could help. Kind regards, Mark Maunder - Founder/CEO -
Posted a reply to Fast and efficient, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks! Regards, Mark Maunder - Founder/CEO -
Posted a reply to Easy to install and works properly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Patrick. Let me know what we missed. We'd love to get that star back.… -
Posted a reply to You can’t delete this terrible thing!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi I'm the Founder and CEO of Wordfence. We care deeply about all of our… -
Posted a reply to Wordfence 7.8.0 Free, registration email for agency, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi guys. Our support team does a great job and will weigh in here in… -
Posted a reply to Wordfence Vulnerability, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think the author thinks that we created the vulnerability or are somehow responsible for… -
Posted a reply to False warning about removed plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. Our systems may have taken a few hours to refresh after that plugin was… -
Posted a reply to Passing public key to Wordfence Central., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Please see our help page on troubleshooting connection issues with Central for a variety… -
Posted a reply to Conflict with Blog2Social, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please ask them to be more specific. It's their plugin so they should know what… -
Posted a reply to Forwarding to another website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wordfence has quite a few scan options, some of which are not enabled by default.… -
Posted a reply to Wordfence on seperate sites crashes site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What do you mean by crash? Does the server segfault? Dod you get a 500… -
Posted a reply to Can’t optimize firewall, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, You can find our documentation on optimizing the firewall here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/optimizing-the-firewall/ If you still… -
Posted a reply to Manually refresh rules is failing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Kevin, It should be noc1.wordfence.com, noc3.wordfence.com and noc4.wordfence.com. Regards, Mark. -
Posted a reply to wordfence problem, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sounds like a corrupt installation. Can you do a full uninstall of Wordfence and reinstall?… -
Posted a reply to Log error every one second, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looks like a DB error. Is there anything non-standard about your database setup? Are you… -
Posted a reply to Stop Allowing User Enumeration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's probably more than 10 lines of code because the general philosophy has been it's… -
Posted a reply to Stop Allowing User Enumeration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Agreed. Just an FYI that our team changed our position on this a while back… -
Posted a reply to admin-ajax.php vulnerability? I got hacked!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The GDPR plugin is an exploit via admin-ajax.php so your logs indicate this _may_ be… -
Posted a reply to Beware of False Positives from Wordfence, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Bill. Just want you to know the team is chatting about this internally and… -
Posted a reply to GDPR Solution, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also it looks like you're not using the full hash but just a few bytes.… -
Posted a reply to GDPR Solution, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Marking as resolved. -
Posted a reply to GDPR Solution, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Hashing the last two bytes of an IP address gives you entropy of 2^16.… -
Posted a reply to Anonymize the PIIs shown in Wordfence to be compliant with GDPR?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, "the customer himself doesn’t need to see all the IPs to provide security for… -
Posted a reply to Wordfence sub-processors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's all quite boring actually. No conspiracy here I'm afraid. ByteGrid: We own our own… -
Committed [1177050] to Plugins SVN:
* Improvement: Handled uncaught exception when noc1 is not available in ...
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