Wordefence wants to Optimize the Wordfence Web Application Firewall again?

  • Resolved Maggie96

    (@maggie96)


    1 year, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I logged into a client’s site that has had Wordfence installed on it for several years and there is a message stating:

    To make your site as secure as possible, take a moment to optimize the Wordfence Web Application Firewall: ?CLICK HERE TO CONFIGURE?DISMISS
    If you cannot complete the setup process,?click here for help(opens in new tab).

    It’s confusing because we completed this step when we first installed Wordfence a few years ago – so I’m thinking it is unusual that it is asking to do this again. When I clicked on on “Configure” to see what it would says it brings up this message:

    To make your site as secure as possible, the Wordfence Web Application Firewall is designed to run via a PHP setting called?auto_prepend_file, which ensures it runs before any potentially vulnerable code runs. This PHP setting is currently in use, and is including this file:
    /home/users/web/b1450/apo.goals5/newsite1/wordfence-waf.php

    Has something changed/updated with Wordfence to make it want to run the Configure process on a website for a second time? Years later?

    If you can offer any advice that would be helpful.

    Thank you,

    Maggie

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  • Plugin Support wftiffany

    (@wftiffany)

    Hi @maggie96,

    Do you know if the site’s PHP version has been upgraded recently? We had a case where PHP was upgraded from 7.4 to 8.0 and the firewall was no longer optimized.

    At any rate, you should be okay selecting the “include” option and re-optimizing the firewall.

    Let me know if you have any issues.

    Thanks,
    Tiffany

    Thread Starter Maggie96

    (@maggie96)

    Hi Tiffany,

    Thank you for the information. ?? I will check with the hosting company.

    Maggie

    Thread Starter Maggie96

    (@maggie96)

    Re-optimizing the Firewall worked fine. No issues so far. Thank you again for the advice!

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