Title: Suspicious code in DataBuilder.php
Last modified: December 9, 2019

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# Suspicious code in DataBuilder.php

 *  Resolved [cmht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eightsages/)
 * (@eightsages)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspicious-code-in-databuilder-php/)
 * Hi,
 * Our security plugin (Defender Pro v2.1.4) has highlighted suspicious code in 
   DataBuilder.php in Rank Math v1.0.35.3 :
 * The function extract line 692 column 13 execute using unsanitize user inputs:
   
   extract($this->parseForwardedString($_SERVER[‘HTTP_FORWARDED’]));
 * The function extract line 717 column 13 execute using unsanitize user inputs:
   
   extract($this->parseForwardedString($_SERVER[‘HTTP_FORWARDED’]));
 * Should we be concerned about these ?
 * Thanks
 * Chris

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 *  Plugin Author [Rank Math SEO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rankmath/)
 * (@rankmath)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspicious-code-in-databuilder-php/#post-12228395)
 * Hello [@eightsages](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eightsages/)
 * Thank you for contacting the support.
 * The warning is about the `extract` function used in the plugin and sometimes 
   these security plugins warn if they think that the sanitization is not done properly
   around it.
 * You can safely ignore that warning as we have done proper sanitization in the
   plugin around that code.
 * Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

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