Wordfence false positives

As also discussed in the www.ads-software.com forum here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/phishing-url-in-updraftplus-file/

Steve

The same critical warning message started appearing on my websites today. Each uses Wordfence 7.2.2 and Updraft 2.16.6.

Michael

Thank you for posting this. I, too, got the alert from WordFence and went over to UpdraftPlus’ support forum to find several “me too” posts, and due to the admin there suggesting we report it to WordFence as a false positive, I came here to add my “Me Too” for what it’s worth.

Glad to know there’s nothing to worry about.

Hi @davidanderson, @sd142pp, @mikemacd, and @mitchpowell,

Thank you for bringing attention to this matter.

Wordfence uses Google Safe Browsing ( https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/ ) to detect malicious URLs.

That URL was incorrectly added to their list, but now it has been removed. Running a new Wordfence scan should no longer flag that file.

Dave

Thanks very much for coming back to us Dave. It’s much appreciated.

Regards
Michael