Wordfence Scan Results

  • Hello,
    Just curious why does Wordfence Scan, with High Sensitivity scanning enabled, show the file listed below as not being a core file? It shows the warning shown below when scanning the root site on my shared server. I should also add, that when scanning the root site it only shows this warning for all sites that are not the root site, and does not show this warning for my root site. However, when scanning the individual non-root sites this warning does not appear.

    I am also curious to know, if you scan the root site on a shared server, does it accurately scan all of my other sites on that shared server? Will the root site scan results for the additional sites be the same as an individual scan on the other non-root sites?
    Thanks
    Clint

    This file may contain malicious executable code: /public_html/site.com/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php
    Filename: site.com/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php
    File type: Not a core, theme or plugin file.

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  • Hi cwdv,

    I am not 100% sure if I follow what you are saying. But I will try and answer your questions.

    I am also curious to know, if you scan the root site on a shared server, does it accurately scan all of my other sites on that shared server? Will the root site scan results for the additional sites be the same as an individual scan on the other non-root sites?

    Wordfence wasn’t designed to scan multiple domains at the same time. If I understand your setup, you have a WordPress install on your root, and then addon domains from there in site.com folders. Wordfence will scan through them for known malicious patterns, but on the other domains, I do not think it will accurately compare core, theme or plugin files to their official repos.

    Let me know if that answers your question.

    Thread Starter cwdv

    (@cwdv)

    Hello,
    When I do a Wordfence Scan on my root site which is on a shared server, it returns results from the “Other Sites” on that shared server. The results for the “Other Sites” don’t seem to always match up with the Wordfence Scan results from each individual site. Sorry, hope that makes sense.

    I should note, that I have Wordfence installed on all sites on that shared server. Basically the root site scan results will show results from the other addon domains, but they don’t always seem to match up with the individual addon site scan results.

    Thanks again,
    Clint

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