EWWW Image Optimizer triggering an error activated WebP optimization

  • Resolved GisokuBudo

    (@gisokubudo)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    I’m trying to activate the WebP optimisation option in EWWW Image Optimizer and whenever I select the option and click to save changes it triggers a WordFence page noting “A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site”.

    For reference, I’m running this in a dev environment which I’ve created using WP-Staging.

    I was going to shift the Firewall back into Learning Mode (as this has helped where some of the tagDiv Newspaper Theme options would fail to save), but thought I’d check here first in case anyone else has experienced something similar. I’d rather test the WebP bulk conversion in my dev environment than directly in prod if I can avoid it.

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  • Thread Starter GisokuBudo

    (@gisokubudo)

    Update – turns out it was a similar firewall issue that I’ve had elsewhere in WP Staging with the tagDiv Newspaper theme. I moved the firewall to learning mode, updated the settings (turns out saving any setting in EWWW triggered the warning screen), switched it back to normal mode and all is sorted. Still a bit confused why it tripped WordFence but always happy to err on the side of caution with security plugins ??

    Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @gisokubudo,

    Great news you’ve managed to solve this and thank-you for posting an update. My suspicion would be a false-positive and I believe that’s what it turned out to be in this case.

    The reason why these blocks can happen is usually down to the way a script is loading data to the front-end, or possibly making outbound/inbound communications for assets or updates. Learning Mode is usually effective in these cases and it sounds like that’s happened here too.

    Take care, and by all means start a new topic up in future if you have further Wordfence questions.

    Peter.

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