This file may contain malicious executable

  • Resolved mrinkman

    (@mrinkman)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Malware scan used by Wordfence generates this email message to me for all of the websites that I use Tablepress

    Wordfence found the following new issues on “”.

    Alert generated at Sunday 26th of April 2015 at 10:00:23 PM

    Critical Problems:

    * This file may contain malicious executable code/home/suvtents/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tablepress/libraries/evalmath.class.php

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

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    The WordFence plugin is probably complaining about the usage of the word “eval” in that file. This is also a PHP function to execute PHP strings and (if used in the wrong) way can lead to potential security problems.
    TablePress is however not using that function, it’s just imitating it and simply happens to use a name that includes “eval”. Thus, if you don’t get any other warnings like this for other files, this is a false positive.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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