USPTO listed as Malicious.. AGAIN
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here is the text from the old issue that you had marked as closed. I have commented and another user has commetened that this is not corrected but since it is marked as resolved, I don’t think it is on your radar. Please fix this again.
Wordfence says patft.uspto.gov is on domain blacklist, why, looks fine?
Resolvedjikamens (@jikamens)
1 month ago
Today Wordfence reports to me:Post contains a suspected malware URL: [elided] Title: [elided] Bad URL: https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Posted on: 2009-01-04 23:44:47 Severity: Critical Status New This post contains a URL that is currently listed on Wordfence’s domain blacklist. The URL is: https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser
There’s nothing wrong with that URL as far as I can tell (I looked at the page source, and it looks fine), and I find it hard to believe that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would be hosting malware.
What’s up with that?
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Plugin Authorwfasa (@wfasa)
1 month ago
Hi jikamens,
it looks like this domain made it in there by accident. Most likely, it appeared on a page that was malicious at some point. For example, and attacker may have linked there in order to make their fake page look legit. However, it should not have slipped through in to the list when it’s clean so that’s our mistake. We will be removing it asap. Thanks a bunch for reporting!Michael Barker (@michael-barker)
3 weeks ago
This is not resolved. Wordfence continues to report https://patft.uspto.gov as spam in my scans. Has it slipped back into the database or was this subdomain never cleared?Thanks
Michaeluaoptics (@uaoptics)
13 hours, 38 minutes ago
I too am having this issue on my multisite. I’ve a number of scientists that are using this type of URL to show their publications. But Wordfence is tagging them all as blacklisted.Is there a way in Wordfence to whitelist this domain on my end?
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