Wordfence false positives (?) from BackupBuddy

  • Resolved chatmandesign

    (@chatmandesign)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I am seeing Critical Problems similar to the following reported on several sites that have both Wordfence and BackupBuddy installed:

    File appears to be malicious: wp-content/uploads/backupbuddy_temp/dr3dt5f6cm/importbuddy.php

    As far as I can tell, the files being flagged look like legit temp files created by BackupBuddy while making backups.

    Has anyone else seen this issue? I’d like to confirm that I’m correct in believing these are false positives.

    (At least one of the sites that have been reporting this has the latest Wordfence 6.0.10 and BackupBuddy 4.1.2.2, and I believe they all do, though I haven’t individually double-checked every site.)

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

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  • This post is months old but I got that too. I deleted the temp files.

    I just got the same warning about 2 malicious files yesterday after installing BackupBuddy on a site using Wordfence. These are the 2 files it’s flagging:

    Critical Problems:
    * File appears to be malicious: wp-content/uploads/backupbuddy_temp/9kcbg1q5gv/importbuddy.php
    * File appears to be malicious: wp-content/uploads/backupbuddy_temp/ph9zp3qcqh/importbuddy.php

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