Advanced Editor Tools 7 false positives

  • Resolved Malae

    (@malae)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I know that the issue of false positives from 7 files from Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced) plugin has been reported and the issue was closed.

    I have seen this problem on ten sites. To clean up the scan reports, I ‘repaired’ each file and removed the 7 issues on each site. On rescanning, I see the same 7 issues return. Presumably that will happen, if the replacement files were identical to the ones ‘repaired’.

    Do you not need to find out why this is happening in Wordfence, since it may be a long time before the Advanced Editor Tools plug-in is updated again and even then this may not fix the issue. The author, Andrew Ozz (@azaozz) stated in his support page: “@bobsled Then in your case it seems this is a false positive. It will probably be fixed in Wordfence soon as they are aware.

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  • Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    Hello @malae and thanks for reaching out to us!

    Since you know that these are false positives, instead of repairing them, set them to ignore, then that will remove them from your scan results.

    Let me know if this helps!

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Malae

    (@malae)

    Hello @wfadam,

    Thanks for the quick response with the tip. I am now doing that, but it is like sweeping dust under the carpet and I am curious why this happens.

    Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    I think what is happening is these files are being updated by the plugin developer, Wordfence then sees that something has changed, but then when you go to look at the files its identical to the old files.

    Maybe the repository hasn’t been updated for the plugin yet.

    Ignoring these, for now, isn’t a bad option.

    Let us know if you need anything else!

    Thanks again!

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