Spurious plugin update notification

  • Resolved krmaxson

    (@krmaxson)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve been getting a constant “An update is available for 1 plugin” notification on a live site for months now. No plugins need updating, and as far as I can tell Wordfence provides no information on the source of the message. Rerunning scans doesn’t remove the message. Because the site is live I haven’t tried deleting and reinstalling Wordfence, and I can’t think of anything else to do. I suppose Wordfence has some bad info in one of its tables I need to manually correct, or else it uses a slightly different method of checking plugin versions than WordPress core does (since the default “WordPress Updates” page correctly shows that all of my plugins are up to date)?

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  • Thread Starter krmaxson

    (@krmaxson)

    Am I really the only person who has experienced this behavior?

    Hi krmaxson,

    Please make sure that your database user has full privileges on the database, you can check that at (Wordfence > Tools > Diagnostics > MySQL).

    Also, if you have any database management tool (like PHPMyAdmin), could you please check entries in this table “wp_wfNotifications”?

    If you have any caching plugin installed with database caching option, please purge this cache.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter krmaxson

    (@krmaxson)

    Thanks for the reply. Privileges are fine, and there was no caching problem; however, before I took a look in wp_wfNotifications, I happened to toggle tracking updates on and off in the admin settings, and that removed the spurious notification. Before I did that I would have *sworn* I’d already tried it, but seeing it work just now, I’m no longer so sure ??

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