Permissions and disk quota

  • Since a few versions ago Wordfence (or WAF) changes file permissions.
    Plugins updated via WordPress, including Wordfence itself, updated folders end up having 777 (in stead of 755) and some updated files 666 (in stead of 644).
    The next day updating fails, resulting in all kinds of error messsages about insufficient disk space.

    My hosting provider keeps advising to remove Wordfence.
    Is there a way to prevent these permission changes in Wordfence or WAF settings or htaccess?

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  • hello, I also have the same issue as yours
    I have change the permission become 777 as the wordfence’s instruction, but still I can not set the extended firewall.
    I hope the wordfence give us the solutions how to fix the issue
    perhaps someone else have succeeded fix the problem ? please give us the guidance

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hello,

    Wordfence won’t change directories to 777 permissions or files to 666 permissions. Something or someone else is responsible for changing those permissions, which present a significant security risk.

    Ask your hosting provider to help you investigate the root cause of the change in permissions and ask that steps be taken to restore the permissions in your account.

    Please read the following from our learning center:

    How to Restrict WordPress File Permissions – WordPress Security

    Has My Site Been Hacked

    How to Clean a Hacked WordPress Website With Wordfence

    The WordPress Security Learning Center

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by wfphil. Reason: Changed order of external links

    Hello @wfphil
    Thank you for your response, however when I was trying to activate WAF, an error message appeared like this :
    “We were unable to write to ~/wp-content/wflogs/ which the WAF uses for storage. Please update permissions on the parent directory so the web server can write to it”

    I have set the folder permission into 0777
    What should I do next to fix the issue ?

    thank you,

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hello,

    @iwantaufani It would be better if you could start a new topic to address your own issue please otherwise the topic may become very confusing for everyone involved. Many thanks.

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