Royal pain in the @ss!

Thanks for your thoughts about Wordfence.

Actually, that’s not our code. If you Googled it you would have seen that it belongs to Cloudflare’s dynamic email obfuscation. CloudFlare automatically applies the obfuscation to websites that they protect (according to the results I read).

If your website is protected by CloudFlare, you can turn the feature on by signing in to the dashboard then Cloudflare.com > ScrapeShield > Email Obfuscation.

You can perform a similar search by searching for “/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection”. Here’s a link to help.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fcdn-cgi%2Fl%2Femail-protection%22&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS781US781&oq=%22%2Fcdn-cgi%2Fl%2Femail-protection%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.1703j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

So, maybe you should reach out and complain to them. It is most definitely not us.

Tim

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by WFSupport.

Oh! Thanks, Tim, for your prompt and useful response. I will followup as you suggested.
Please accept my apologies for my snarky comment ??

No problem. It happens occasionally. People sometimes see something security related and immediately assume it must be Wordfence, without thinking about other security measures they may have added over the years or things the hosting provider adds.

If it has changed your opinion of the plugin, would you mind revising your star rating as well? Totally up to you but some people only look at the stars and the title.

Tim

INITIAL COMMENT…

quite literally: I tried using WordFence and it had the audacity to modify my post database by substituting “protections” for every at-sign (@) in my database! I removed the plugin and spent a few hours undoing the damage that it did. In case you want to know what happened, wherever my database had an “@” in it, WordFence replaced that with something in the form of:

(<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection">[email protected]</a>)

I’m sure it meant well, but I have a major aversion to having my db modified like that.

UPDATE…
Turns out the problem I described was actually being caused by Cloudflare’s over-aggressive email obfuscation feature, which was wrapping protection around “@” characters that were associated with video and processor specs in my site’s single board computer database specs listings. So I would like to upgrade my rating to a full <b>5 STARS</b>, and appreciate the prompt support that my misunderstanding prompted. Great support, guys! (but I don’t seem to be able to change the stars)

@deviceguru

Please do not use reviews for support questions/reporting issues or to leverage support.

Its good that you resolved your issue and considering this topic being a support topic – it should be removed (archived).
But, as an exclusion we can keep it for good sake and for someone else who might encounter similar issue. I’ve moved this thread to support section and will close it.

You can leave another review for this plugin.