Yellow triangles on scan results

Hi @stylepets, thanks for getting in touch.

Naturally as the Server State and Vulnerability Scan warnings can be thrown by a number of factors as each stage involves a few different checks, I can highlight those without trying to generalize too much: https://www.wordfence.com/help/scan/#scan-stages

As the page above explains, if there is an issue with any of those steps then there’s a likelihood of the yellow warnings being shown. I might be able to help more specifically by seeing scan result messages and your server configuration if you send me a diagnostic report.

Can you send one to wftest @ wordfence . com? You can find the link to do so at the top of the Wordfence Tools > Diagnostics page. Then click on “Send Report by Email”. Please add your forum username where indicated and respond here after you have sent it.

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Thanks,

Peter.

Hi Peter. Thank you. Just sent it. Somehow the Server State warning cleared itself up without out my doing anything, but the Vulnerability Scan warning remains. Out of curiosity, would a connectivity issue like I’m seeing prevent a site spider like Screaming Frog from crawling my site? Thank you. Randy

Hi @stylepets,

I’m not seeing any scan issues or communication issues between our servers and your site, which would be a common reason for scan problems. This was probably able to run successfully which is why the Server State warning cleared, so may have been a temporary issue.

From our scan stages documentation, the triangle appears during the following check:

Vulnerability Scan

• Scan for out of date, abandoned, and vulnerable plugins, themes, and WordPress versions

I can see from your diagnostic you had 4 updates pending for plugins but none of them were critical issues. If you make these updates, the warning for this scan stage should clear.

Thanks again,

Peter.