Thumbnail was not loading – iThemes security (fix found)

Hi,
I am using WP YouTube Lyte to implement GDPR so disabling the local cache was not an option (although it worked).
The fix: I am using the plugin iThemes security and had ticked the option “Disable PHP in plugins/” under “Optimizing System” – so loading the preview in the way it’s currently implemented gave and 403 Forbidden response.

If more users are affected by it, you might consider loading the thumbnails via WP AJAX instead. (The security consideration behind this is that in that way, WordPress has a chance of doing security stuff before the request is forwarded to the plugin – that’s why I disabled direct-access PHP in the plugins folder.)

• This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Benjamin Pick.