Title: php_misc_shells in 'content-aware-sidebars.php'
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# php_misc_shells in 'content-aware-sidebars.php'

 *  [SGamble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sgamble/)
 * (@sgamble)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php_misc_shells-in-content-aware-sidebarsphp/)
 * Hi, I use Asgard security scan to check my sites. It continually flags this file
 * plugins/content-aware-sidebars/content-aware-sidebars.php
 * for ‘php_misc_shells’. Based on the tests I’ve run, I don’t think there is a 
   problem with the file, I’m just trying to unravel why it’s getting flagged. Do
   you have any ideas?
 * I appreciate your help!
 * Susan
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php_misc_shells-in-content-aware-sidebarsphp/#post-5824886)
 * Thank you for your feedback. Security is very important, and generally I think
   I use the best practices in the plugin. I have never had any reports of security
   flaws or hacks, but of course I cannot guarantee 100% security.
 * With that said, can you give me more details about the message? Does it say what
   line is causing the flag?
 * I have never seen the “php_misc_shells” message before, and googling it only 
   points back to asgard-cli on github.
 *  Thread Starter [SGamble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sgamble/)
 * (@sgamble)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php_misc_shells-in-content-aware-sidebarsphp/#post-5824979)
 * Hi Joachim,
 * Thanks for the quick reply. I posted a question to the Asgard plug-in folks on
   their forum as well.
 * The message really doesn’t give me any more information, you run the scan, and
   there is a list with the column headers ‘verdict’ and ‘file’. The verdict is “
   php_misc_shells” and the file gives the location on my server of this file – 
   plugins/content-aware-sidebars/content-aware-sidebars.php.
 * I have downloaded, fresh from your server, new copies of this file and replaced
   my old one, I’ve read through the file and haven’t seen anything (totally possible
   I’m not that smart) and I have put new copies of your plugin and the asgard plugin
   on a site on a different host and have gotten the same result.
 * I’ll continue to follow up with the makers of the Asgard plugin.
 * Susan
 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php_misc_shells-in-content-aware-sidebarsphp/#post-5825034)
 * Thanks for following up at the developers of the plugin.
    If they find a specific
   security issue in Content Aware Sidebars, please show them this thread so we 
   can fix it.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php_misc_shells-in-content-aware-sidebarsphp/#post-5825034)
 * Status: not a support question