SSL Upgrade Network Errors

  • I’m running WordPress with 3 sites in the multisite network. Only the main site is set up to use SSL. When attempting to run ‘Upgrade Network’ via the Network Admin I get the following error:

    Warning! Problem updating. Your server may not be able to connect to sites running on it. Error message: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

    At first I had some verification errors, so I’ve put the following (as a plugin) in my main site:

    add_filter('https_ssl_verify', '__return_false');
add_filter('https_local_ssl_verify', '__return_false');

    But now I can’t seem to find a way to get around the handshake failure issue. Please help!

    I’m running the latest version of WordPress, including the All In One WP Security plugin, WP SuperCache, and CloudFlare with forced SSL on the main multisite domain. All sub-sites are using mapped TLDs without SSL.

    Please help!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Change that to an MU plugin for all sites on the network for one.

    For the other, what version of SSL and Secure CURL are you running on the server? They may be out of date.

    Thread Starter David Venter

    (@davidventernet)

    Hi Mika, I’m not sure about the SSL or Secure Curl. I’m using (mt) Mediatemple (gs) Grid-Service. Should I reach out to them about it?

    Thread Starter David Venter

    (@davidventernet)

    I contacted (mt)… Here’s what they had to say…

    This isn’t an error we’ve received a large number of reports for, although there is a concern I have regarding part of the message:

    “sslv3 alert handshake failure”

    SSLv3 is one of the protocols that was vulnerable to the recent POODLE vulnerability. As a consequence, it was disabled on the Grid. Connections should be made using TLS instead to ensure that they are secure. You may need to make the appropriate modifications to your site, plugins, etc. to ensure that SSLv3 is not used.

    Regarding the version of Curl running on the server, since the Grid hosting service is a shared hosting platform, this software is managed by our engineers and cannot be updated by the end user.

    This doesn’t really help me. I didn’t change anything in my site since the last successful “network upgrade” other than enabling and enforcing SSL and setting up CloudFlare.

    Still trying to figure out how to fix this.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    BEFORE you enforced SSL, though, you see, you weren’t using it to communicate…

    The upgrade network button is all internal, it’s not calling out to wp.org or anything, it’s just updating the DB.

    Turn off All In One WP Security. It’s a stab in teh dark but it make be stuck.

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