Hello,
I had the same problem as portenkirchner above and could not find my php error log. I host my own blog and determined that the error log directory parameter in my php.ini was not set correctly. I fixed this and discovered when I ran the Exploit Scanner again that indeed I was getting an out of memory error in my php error log. However, the Exploit Scanner script does not return anything if this error occurs and all I would get is the same result “This script searches through your WordPress install for signs that may”…maybe this can be fixed in a future version to at least tell someone if there was a memory error???
Here is the exact error from my php error log:
“[21-Oct-2009 11:40:42] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 51118080 bytes) in /www/xxxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/exploit-scanner/exploit-scanner.php on line 80
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I corrected this by going into my wp-config.php per the README instructions and added the following:
define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’ );
After doing this, the error went away but the Exploit Scanner now had a different problem. Now, when I started a scan, the “Please Wait while Loading” animated .gif would display for hours on end. After some painstaking debugging of the Exploit Scanner code, I determined the problem. It seems that the Exploit Scanner does not handle scanning binary files if they are anywhere in the WordPress directory structure. To fix this problem, I simply moved my “files” outside of the WordPress directory structure and voila, the scanner completed properly! Again, this should be fixed in a future version by either telling the user that the scanner does not work with binary files or build in intelligence to skip over these files/scan them in a different way.
Anyone have a similar problem using this script with binary files?
Thanks!
