Wordfence email claims WordPress version is out of date when it’s not

  • Resolved daverado

    (@daverado)


    7 months, 2 weeks ago

    I received a [Wordfence Alert] email yesterday from the plugin, which stated that “Your WordPress version is out of date”. But my WordPress version is not out of date. I have WordPress 6.5.2, which is the current version, and I have had 6.5.2 since 3rd April. So why was I sent this erroneous email by the Wordfence plugin?

    • This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by daverado.
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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @daverado, thanks for getting in touch. There’s no certain answer I can give but there are 3 scenarios we’ve seen.

    Versions are often identified when initiating a scan (before automatic update cron), then scheduled scans not completing or having to retry days later can result in this behavior. We currently have a development case open to ensure updates are taken into account if they run in this order.

    If Postfix or Sendmail had stopped sending out emails, we’ve also seen alerts sent out after the host or administrator has to perform a routine server restart, or software updates.

    The scenario we’ve seen most often is when a staging/development site goes by the same name, and it wasn’t updated even though the main site was. Sometimes it’s even a developer’s copy of the site.

    Thanks,
    Peter.

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