Confirmation | Who Receives Alerts?

  • Resolved BobIMG

    (@bobimg)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    My understanding has always been that when an address is filled into General Wordfence Options: Where to email alerts that all WordFence Alerts are sent ONLY to this address….plugin updates, logins, etc. Today I received an email from an admin on a site questioning a login. Under what scenario is an admin on the site receiving emails in addition to the address in this alerts field?

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  • Hi @bobimg,
    Emails should only be going to the email entered in the field to receive alerts. But anyone who is admin on a site can see the Wordfence plugin (unless it’s a multisite, then super admins are the only ones who can see it). Is it possible that the admin in question saw logins on the Wordfence Firewall Dashboard?

    If not, I’d suspect you may have a plugin on that site which forwards all emails that are sent via wp_mail to a specific address. Wordfence uses the WordPress core function wp_mail to send emails, and occasionally we’ll see some strange issues when other plugins hook in to wp_mail as well. It’s definitely not common but wanted to mention it just in case.

    Thread Starter BobIMG

    (@bobimg)

    @wfasa this is super helpful information. I greatly appreciate it. We’ll review other plugins to see if we have a bug.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by BobIMG.
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