ReactPress Fatal Error on WPMU Dev Hosting

  • softdesigns

    (@softdesigns)


    5 months ago

    Hi Friends – On WPMU Dev Hosting, ReactPress will fail due to security settings. WPMU Support staff isolated the issue into this “escapeshellcmd()” function, and their staff said this:

    ===== WPMUDev.com – Support Reply:

    Based on the logs, ReactPress is attempting to use the PHP function?escapeshellcmd(), but unfortunately, this function is?disabled?for all sites and I’m afraid that it is not possible to activate?it.

    For your reference, you can find the list of allowed and disabled PHP functions for our hosting here https://wpmudev.com/docs/hosting/allowed-disabled-functions-commands/#allowed-ssh-commands

    =====

    WPMUDev.com Hosting staff suggest we contact you to see if you can offer some workaround.

    Can you please advise how to configure ReactPress to work on WPMU Dev Hosting?

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  • Plugin Author rockiger

    (@rockiger)

    Unfortunately, I don’t have an alternative. To be honest, I don’t think the information is accurate. WordPress itself uses escapeshellcmd. I don’t know how they run WordPress if it is disabled.

    Imo, switch the hosting provider.

    Hi There

    The only instance WordPress uses escapeshellcmd is from the PHPMailer which validates if the function doesn’t exist hence not throwing the fatal error:

    https://monosnap.com/file/OewW6EwnCLMKQWYfnvn2qiBzqpHuV9

    As a managed hosting we disable any function that can execute shell access, based on plugins changelogs https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/reactpress/#developers it already verifies if shell_exec is allowed:

    Check for if it allows shell_exec and exec

    But by checking the plugin source code I couldn’t locate any instance attempting to execute the shell_exec ( of course it was just a quick check looking by those functions, I didn’t go further in the code ) that said, in case, if the plugin has a high dependence of escapeshellcmd, shell_exec and exec unfortunately then it won’t execute on some hosting. If the shell_exec was replaced at some point then maybe consider a validation if escapeshellcmd function is active.

    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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