Critical Bug: Missing IMDb data/images causing PHP Fatal Errors and 100% CPU

Greetings – I have been chasing down VPS and domain errors with Gemini helping me. The following is from Gemini:

When the plugin attempts to fetch data from IMDb for a post, and that external connection fails, times out, or returns incomplete data (specifically missing a title or featured image), the plugin lacks a fallback mechanism.

Instead of failing gracefully, it throws a Fatal TypeError by passing null to a strictly typed string parameter. This causes the PHP-FPM workers to hang indefinitely, rapidly consuming 100% of the server’s CPU, and resulting in 504 Gateway Timeouts for the entire site. This happens both when loading the frontend post and when attempting to save/update the post in the WordPress editor.

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Lumiere\Frontend\Link_Maker\Bootstrap_Links::get_picture(): Argument #3 ($movie_title) must be of type string, null given, called in /var/www/vhosts/spookyflix.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/class/Frontend/Module/Movie/Movie_Pic.php on line 41 and defined in /var/www/vhosts/spookyflix.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/class/Frontend/Link_Maker/Bootstrap_Links.php:101

Suspected Cause: get_picture() strictly expects a string for $movie_title, but receives null when the IMDb fetch fails to retrieve a title or image. The plugin needs a conditional fallback (e.g., if ($movie_title === null)) to prevent the fatal crash and handle the missing data gracefully.

PHP Warning: Array to string conversion in /var/www/vhosts/spookyflix.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/class/Frontend/Widget/Widget_Frontpage.php on line 233

Suspected Cause: The plugin appears to be grabbing an array of data on the frontpage widget but is attempting to echo or parse it as a standard string on line 233.

The IMDB movie listing it was having issues with was:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070869/

Thanks,

James

• This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by jemcfarlandiii.