Bill

@oldgrumpyde That’s a great idea, I will test it out on my staging server. Thanks!

@sangshenas Thanks! It looks good, it’s current and rated well, but the shortcode is [joli-toc] and not [toc]. Still it might work, there are a few search/replace plugins (or just an SQL query) that might be able to do this. Manually changing almost 500 posts isn’t my idea of fun!

I’m also affected by this issue, for the last two weeks Jetpack has been warning me about this plugin but my site really depends upon it. I also saw the “This security issue has a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited.” message, which is a bit of a relief.

As it’s been abandoned I was wondering if any programmer would be interested in taking it over? I’d be happy to throw in a few dollars to have someone update this, and I expect I’m not alone.

Otherwise, does anyone know of an equivalent plugin that uses the same shortcode (i.e. [toc)? I have eight years worth of content formatted this way, so if I have to replace the plugin I’d like one that doesn’t require me to reformat all those pages.

You have my sympathies, I honestly think that this awful plugin should be called MALWARE instead of MALCARE!

I had this piece of garbage forced upon me when I clicked “Bot Protection” on Cloudways, and now I can’t get rid of it. Just tried resetting permissions as others who have been cursed with this suggested, hopefully that will do the trick. If not, I may have to do a complete new installation of my seven-year-old website.

And yes, I get their spammy emails as well!