Huge problem with plugin

  • I had a huge problem with the plugin, just when I was not available.

    On July 22nd, my ISP contacted me and told me the plugin caused problems for the whole server.

    lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/./wordfenceConstants.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/lib/php/wordfenceConstants.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/local/lib/php/wordfenceConstants.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceConstants.php”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=672, …}) = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0 getcwd(“/home2/cedric/public_html”, 4096) = 26 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/./wordfenceClass.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/lib/php/wordfenceClass.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/local/lib/php/wordfenceClass.php”, 0x7fff47c4b4c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceClass.php”, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118564, …}) = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence”, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, …}) = 0 getcwd(“/home2/cedric/public_html”, 4096) = 26 lstat(“/home2/cedric/public_html/./wordfenceScanner.php”, 0x7fff47c4b710) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat(“/usr/lib/php/wordfenceScanner.php”, 0x7fff47c4b710) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

    It was so bad he had to rename the folder wordfence.

    The site became unresponsive and it took almost a minute to load a page. WordPress became almost impossible to use because it kept loosing connection to server.

    Today I disabled, uninstalled then reinstalled Wordfence, which I use mostly as a cache plugin.
    I have no problem forking 39$ but I want to be sure that such problems won’t happen again and that the plugin has at least minimal telemetry to inform me when things look very bad.

    Let me know if you know of the problem and if you fixed it.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordfence/

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  • Thread Starter Cedricmi

    (@cedricmi)

    By the way, it seems Wordfence uses cookies in relation to cache.

    Unfortunately, in some conditions this means viewer view old pages. In a typical blog this is as if the blog didn’t change for days and they don’t see the new posts.

    Ideally, there would be some kind of panic button in Wordfence Plugin “Ignore Cookies older than x days”.

    This would solve the problem of asking the viewers to delete cookies on their computers, because most are unable and/or unwilling to do so.

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