Plugin Notifications

Resolved scottkr24
(@scottkr24)

8 years, 11 months ago

I’ve been getting notifications from your plugin that says “The Plugin “name of plugin” appears to be abandoned.”
I check the site and the plugins section and nothing is wrong. All the plugins are just fine. Any idea of what’s going on?

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horus79
(@horus79)

8 years, 11 months ago

Same here. A lot of false alarms. A recent sample:
Critical Problems:

* The Plugin “Contact Form DB” has been removed from ww.wp.xz.cn.

…

Warnings:

* The Plugin “Export Featured Images” appears to be abandoned.

* The Plugin “Get page IDs” appears to be abandoned.

* The Plugin “Limit Login Attempts” appears to be abandoned.

…

All plugins appear to work just fine.

Thread Starter scottkr24
(@scottkr24)

8 years, 11 months ago

I just posted a message to the WordFence support forum where the messages come from to see if they know what’s going on.

horus79
(@horus79)

8 years, 11 months ago

Maybe this is it (from another thread)

wfyann (@wfyann)
12 hours, 6 minutes ago

Please have a look at this article which addresses the “Plugin appears to be abandoned” scan message.
https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Understanding_scan_results#Plugin_appears_to_be_abandoned

Thread Starter scottkr24
(@scottkr24)

8 years, 11 months ago

Thanks for the link to understand what the messages are about.

wfyann
(@wfyann)

8 years, 11 months ago

Hi @scottkr24,

Indeed as @horus79 pointed out we implemented new checks (and warnings) within the Wordfence scan.

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@horus79,

Thanks for stepping in!

kenirwin
(@kenirwin)

8 years, 10 months ago

Does the Wordfence functionality require any special settings to operate, or does the login limiting work just by having Wordfence installed & activated?
Thanks!