Core Integrity says admin-ajax.php is Modified

  • Resolved landryd

    (@landryd)


    10 years ago

    Hello,

    The Core integrity on Sucuri Security says that wp-admin/admin-ajax.php has been modified. I chose the option to “restore file(s) content”, but it makes no difference. Next, I restored the file from the WordPress stock file. How do I find what the change is (or how do I restore the file)?

    Thanks!
    Dean

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  • yorman

    (@yorman)

    The restore function tries to replace the content of the file with the code found in the official public releases of WordPress, there were some incompatibilities with non-English sites but I fixed them all months ago. So I think the issue here is that the file has not write permissions and the plugin is not able to replace its content.

    You can solve this manually using a text editor, open the file and replace its content with the official code from here [1], change the version number in the URL if your site is not based on 4.0.

    [1] wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (version 4.0)

    Thread Starter landryd

    (@landryd)

    It turns out the file was somehow re-owned to root. I’ve chown’d it to my web server user and the plugin was able to restore it.

    Thanks for the help!

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