Title: Does WordPress use the php_exif PHP extension?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Does WordPress use the php_exif PHP extension?

 *  [mikedcmdva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikedcmdva/)
 * (@mikedcmdva)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-php_exif-php-extension/)
 * My SonicWALL has been blocking external traffic to WordPress due to it having
   a rule for a vulnerability for a potential attack via PHP EXIF buffer overflow.
 * I have come to learn that this hasn’t been fixed until PHP 5.6 and my server 
   is running an older version of PHP.
 * I just want to simply disable the php_exif extension in php.ini but I want to
   know if WordPress uses this before I do that, because I do not want to create
   more problems by doing so.
 * Thanks

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 *  [codemovement.pk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codemovementpk/)
 * (@codemovementpk)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-php_exif-php-extension/#post-5537989)
 * You can check here [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7103862/how-to-get-exif-data-of-post-images-in-wordpress](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7103862/how-to-get-exif-data-of-post-images-in-wordpress)
 *  Thread Starter [mikedcmdva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikedcmdva/)
 * (@mikedcmdva)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-php_exif-php-extension/#post-5537991)
 * Doesn’t tell me anything

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mikedcmdva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikedcmdva/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-php_exif-php-extension/#post-5537991)
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