curl_exec() has been disabled for security reasons

Hi! First of all, thank you for this wonderful plugin (and it’s free!). I’ve been using this plugin for over a year now and helped me fix broken links in my WordPress site. Everything seems to be working cool until I saw lots of broken links in WP site and all of them have “Unknown Error”.

So, what I did are:
– checked several of the broken links and they are all working fine. I can view them on the web just fine;

– checked the error logs (since I have a Dedicated VPS that I manage myself) and found this error ” curl_exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /path/to/wp-site/example.com/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/modules/checkers/http.php on line 262″;

– check the php.ini to check if I indeed disabled curl_exec() (but I don’t remember doing this) and alas, I didn’t;

– tried to re-install curl “apt install php7.0-curl” but the system says that curl is already at its latest version.

I checked your plugin’s last update and it was February 07, 2018. I believe that this is a plugin issue since I can’t remember editing any configuration and this plugin needs an update and address this issue

Hope you will address this issue as soon as possible man