Title: Compatibility issue with WP Command Line Interface (WP-CLI)
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Compatibility issue with WP Command Line Interface (WP-CLI)

 *  [Android63](https://wordpress.org/support/users/android63/)
 * (@android63)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-issue-with-wp-command-line-interface-wp-cli/)
 * I’m running WordPress on a 64-bit Nginx-based Ubuntu instance on Amazon EC2.
 * I have the WordPress command-line interface ([WP-CLI](http://wp-cli.org/)) installed
   and it runs perfectly – unless the Better WP Security plugin has been running
   for a while.
 * If, for example, I issue a `wp core version` command, the command line interface
   should return something like `3.5.1` but, instead, it returns a garbage number
   such as `336`.
 * When this happens, I can’t run any wp-cli update commands.
 * The problem goes away if I deactivate the Better WP Security plugin, but then
   I lose all its settings.
 * Any ideas?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [jmslbam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmslbam/)
 * (@jmslbam)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-issue-with-wp-command-line-interface-wp-cli/#post-3663856)
 * I know there is an option in Better WP security that scrambles the WP version.
   Try to deselect this and run `wp core version` again.

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [jmslbam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmslbam/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-issue-with-wp-command-line-interface-wp-cli/#post-3663856)
 * Status: not resolved