Email File Change Notifications

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this. The developer is aware and this will be resolved in the next release.

Thanks,

Gerroald

Also, I’m getting these in my notifications:

Dear Site Admin,

The following is a summary of security related activity on your site. For details please visit the security logs

Lockouts: There have been 63 lockout(s) including 57 user(s) and 6 host(s) locked out of your site.

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File changes detected: iThemes Security detected 1 file changes on your system.

This email was generated automatically by iThemes Security

To change your email preferences please visit the plugin settings.

I’m having trouble with file change notifications as well. When I click on any of the two links in the email, instead of going to iThemes Security dashboard I get the WordPress dashboard.

@leandro
Is this in a multi site WP env ?

How do the links look like in the Daily Security Digest email ?

dwinden

No, its a single installation.

These are the links I’m getting:

https://leandroperez.com.ar/xxxxxxx?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fleandroperez.com.ar%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dtoplevel_page_itsec_logs

https://leandroperez.com.ar/xxxxxxx?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fleandroperez.com.ar%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dtoplevel_page_itsec_settings

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The links are fine.

Are you saving WP Dashboard login username\password in your browser ?
What browser and what version of that browser are you using ?
Are you using Apache web server ? If so, what version ?

Let’s try something. Please follow these instructions exactly:

– Start your browser. (If it was already open close and restart it)
– In first tab use: https://leandroperez.com.ar/xxxxxxx address to log into WP Dashboard (close any other open tabs).
– Open a second tab.
– Try and access this url in the second tab (while still logged into WP Dashboard in first tab):

https://leandroperez.com.ar/xxxxxxx?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fleandroperez.com.ar%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dtoplevel_page_itsec_logs

– Expected result: Redirect is not working and WP Dashboard is displayed.

– Close second tab (do NOT logout from WP Dashboard in second tab).

– Logout WP Dashboard in first tab.

– Open second tab.

– Try and access this url in the second tab (This time you are NOT logged into WP Dashboard in first tab):

https://leandroperez.com.ar/xxxxxxx?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fleandroperez.com.ar%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dtoplevel_page_itsec_logs

– Expected result: Redirect is working and iTSec plugin Logs page is displayed.

So basically if WP Dashboard login cookie (still) exists in the browser the redirect_to URL parameter is ignored\not used.

dwinden

Thanks, dwinden!

Are you saving WP Dashboard login username\password in your browser ?

Yes.

What browser and what version of that browser are you using ?

Chrome 43.0.2357.132 m (64-bit) on Win 8.1.

Are you using Apache web server ? If so, what version ?

I’m using Apache v2.4.10.

I tried what you suggested and in both cases it happened exactly what you expected. First time doesn’t work, second time it does.
So does this mean its a bug or was this coded to work that way?

I’ll have to do some additional testing in order to answer your last question with more certainty.

I’d like to rule out the iTSec plugin Hide Backend feature as a possible cause for this behavior.
So I’ll be testing this after disabling the Hide Backend feature and using the default wp-login.php?redirect_to=… url.

Right now I think it was coded to work this way.
But that might change after I get the additional test results.

Meanwhile you can actually repeat the test from my previous post after
removing the username\password stored in the browser.
Make sure you know what the correct username\password is before deleting the username\password stored in the browser ??
Interested to hear whether the result changes or not.
I don’t expect any changes in the result.

dwinden

You are right, it doesn’t change anything.

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Ok, so just completed testing.

Installed a clean WP 4.2.2 environment with permalinks enabled.
No iTSec plugin installed.

Decided to test a URL that redirects to the standard WP Settings page:
https://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php

logged in : redirect works
not logged in : redirect works

Then changed the url to:
https://www.domain.com/wp-admin?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php

logged in : redirect does not work (/wp-admin/?redirect_to=…)
not logged in : redirect does not work (/wp-admin/?redirect_to=…)

So it looks like the redirect_to url parameter only works properly when used with the wp-login.php script.

If the iTSec plugin Hide Backend feature is disabled it will generate proper\working redirect_to links in the Daily Security Digest email.

However when the iTSec plugin Hide Backend feature is enabled it creates redirect_to links like this in the Daily Security Digest email (wp-admin->mysecretloginslug):

https://www.domain.com/mysecretloginslug?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dtoplevel_page_itsec_logs

And the results for those urls are comparable with the results of:

https://www.domain.com/wp-admin?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php

So the redirect would normally not work either already logged in or not.

BUT while using the iTSec plugin and Hide Backend feature is enabled we know that the redirect of such a URL works when not logged in yet …
So when not logged in yet the iTSec plugin Hide Backend code makes this url work somehow …
When already logged in it still doesn’t work. My test indicates this is expected behavior.

Conclusion:

If you want the redirect of the Daily Security Digest email links to work while the iTSec plugin Hide Backend feature is enabled make sure you are not yet logged into WP Dashboard.

dwinden