Title: Folder Permissions
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Folder Permissions

 *  [Steve Borsch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sborsch/)
 * (@sborsch)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-permissions/)
 * My host just ran a scan due to malware on one of my domains and discovered that
   all Filebase directories had 777 permissions on them. They auto-changed them 
   all to 755.
 * a) Why are they full write permissions? This is a security risk
 * b) Will it affect your plugin performance if they’ve been set to 755?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-filebase/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-filebase/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Fabian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabifott/)
 * (@fabifott)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/folder-permissions/#post-3341058)
 * Hello Steve,
 * folders are automatically chmoded to 777 for compatibility. The plugin did not
   work properly for some users when chmod was set to 755. Although 755 should be
   fine for directories.
 * You can set custom permissions by adding these 2 lines to wp-config.php:
    define(‘
   WPFB_PERM_FILE’, 666); define(‘WPFB_PERM_DIR’, 755);

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