[Plugin: Better WP Security] Broken for Multisite

  • I believe this plugin may be broken for multisite installations.

    I was having an issue that some of the features of this plugin will work (changing the admin username, changing the wp_ table prefix) but other features would not work. Specifically, it seemed that when I clicked a checkbox and clicked the save button, the setting would not save. The page would reload with the checkbox unchecked.

    As a result, any changes that I requested did not get saved to the .htaccess file.

    After doing some digging, I was able to get things to work by commenting out a few lines of code in bwps.php in the saveOptions function as follows…

    function saveOptions($opt, $val) {
    global $wpdb;
    $opts = $this->getOptions();

    $opts[$opt] = $val;

    // Since BWPS settings are network-wide, settings can be saved to the main (network) site
    // if (is_multisite()) {
    // $blogs = get_blog_list( 0, ‘all’ ); //need to find a non-deprecated alternative

    // if( is_array( $blogs ) ) {
    // foreach( $blogs as $details ) {
    // delete_blog_option($details[‘blog_id’],”BWPS_options”);
    // update_blog_option($details[‘blog_id’],”BWPS_options”, serialize($opts));
    // delete_blog_option($details[‘blog_id’],’BWPS_update’);
    // }
    // }
    //} else {
    delete_option(“BWPS_options”);
    delete_option(“BWPS_update”);
    update_option(“BWPS_options”, serialize($opts));
    //}
    return $this->getOptions();;
    }

    I haven’t done a lot of testing. There may be other changes necessary. But this solved my immediate problem. Now settings get saved that the .htaccess file gets written.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • Not a multi-site, but same issue here upon updating with 2.15. on WP 3.31 core. Reverted to saved file to bring site back up.

    corrected in 2.17

    No, it’s not fixed yet ! I still have the exact same problem after update to 2.17, even with a new site WordPress 3.3.1 and Better WP Security 2.17 (I create a brand new website to test) . Now I can’t login, how could I degrade the plugin to the previous version ?

    Thread Starter jlnd

    (@jlnd)

    Yep. I upgraded to 2.17 and am having the same issue again. I have WordPress 3.3.1. It’s a multi-site installation. I activated the plugin for the network. I went to Network Admin / Security / System Tweaks page (/wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=BWPS-tweaks) and checked a couple of checkboxes. When I clicked save, my choices were erased.

    In fact, after making a few more changes I clicked save and my whole site became inaccessible. After reading the apache error logs and tracing the problem back to the source I found that the following lines were missing from wp-config.php…

    /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
    if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
    define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);

    /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
    require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

    Restored those lines and got my site back.

    I removed my .htaccess file and could access the site again, as described in this thread.

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