File Change Detection: bizarre wp-admin/error_log entries

So, I’m getting the following odd error_log entries:

[19-May-2014 16:02:13 UTC] PHP Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/[username]/public_html/..) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/[username]/public_html:/home/[username]/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/[username]/public_html/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/modules/free/file-change/class-itsec-file-change-admin.php on line 668
[19-May-2014 16:02:13 UTC] PHP Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/[username]/public_html/..) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/[username]/public_html:/home/[username]/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/[username]/public_html/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/modules/free/file-change/class-itsec-file-change-admin.php on line 677

Offending lines are similar:

if ( file_exists( $directory . $file ) && $file != '.' && $file != '..' && ! is_dir( $directory . $file ) ) {

The only difference in the line is the not before is_dir( $directory . $file ). Any ideas as to what could be going on here?

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