Title: Plugin PHP Fatal Error causing false positives
Last modified: August 16, 2017

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# Plugin PHP Fatal Error causing false positives

 *  Resolved [searchbug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/searchbug/)
 * (@searchbug)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-php-fatal-error-causing-false-positives/)
 * Hello,
 * For the last few weeks we’ve been getting email notifications of broken links
   everyday. After review by our host, they found that we are most likely getting
   false alerts. Here is what they said:
 * The mail you received from that plugin might be a false alert. When we checked
   the logs it shows that there might be some problem with the broken-line-checker
   plugin. Please refer the snippet.
 * PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function has_cap() on boolean in /plugins/broken-
   link-checker/core/core.php on line 3746
 * Not sure whether the plugin is corrupted or not? As said I have confirmed that
   the site and the links are working fine.
 * Can someone tell me if anyone else is having this issue with the latest WP core?
   Any ideas on how to fix this problem are appreciated.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-php-fatal-error-causing-false-positives%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 * Status: resolved