Title: Working with Ultimate Security Plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Working with Ultimate Security Plugin

 *  Resolved [alternateroute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternateroute/)
 * (@alternateroute)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-ultimate-security-plugin/)
 * I have the Ultimate Security Plugin loaded and one of the suggestions was a way
   of stopping malicious URL attacks.
    It gave code to load as a plugin, which was
   the 1.0 version of Block Bad Queries. Even after loading the plugin, Ultimate
   Security Checker still said the site was subject to malicious URL attacks. Now
   that BBQ has been updated, the code I had put in for the plugin triggers an update
   message. I updated to the new version of BBQ and Ultimate Security Checker still
   says the site is vulnerable. Jeff, have you had any contact with the author of
   Ultimate Security Checker to make sure your plugins play together nicely? Is 
   it just a fault in the Ultimate Security plugin, or could there be a situation(
   clashes with other plugins or themes) where your plugin might not be working.
   BTW, the demo of your htaccess good looks good. Might give myself an early Xmas
   present.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-bad-queries/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-bad-queries/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-ultimate-security-plugin/#post-3262933)
 * Hi alternateroute,
 * The notice you are seeing happens because the security-checker plugin scans for
   instances of code that are frequently associated with malicious attacks. And 
   because BBQ specifically protects your site against such code, the security checker
   plugin scans and recognizes the code, then alerting you of its presence. Imagine
   something like this:
 * BBQ plugin says: “evil code 123 is blocked from this site.”
 * So the security scanner lets you know: “Look, we found an instance of ‘evil code
   123’.”
 * From there, the security checker plugin should simply report the code, not assume
   that it’s malicious. There are many plugins that I’ve seen that are reported 
   as dangerous even though the code is used in a completely safe manner, as is 
   the case with BBQ 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [Julio Potier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliobox/)
 * (@juliobox)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-ultimate-security-plugin/#post-3262946)
 * Also, Ultimate Security Checker can not detect others security plugins.
    Other
   example i’ve encounter: Better WP Security told me “You are not blocking too 
   long URLs”, FALSE i’ve got BBQ ! But how can BWPS can guess that BBQ do this 
   job ? He just can not. _my 2 cents_
 *  Thread Starter [alternateroute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alternateroute/)
 * (@alternateroute)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-ultimate-security-plugin/#post-3263003)
 * Thanks Jeff, that makes sense, however since the makers of the Ultimate Security
   Plugin specifically recommend your code, you would think that that would have
   some way of detecting it.
    Thanks for the quick replies from both of you.
 *  [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-ultimate-security-plugin/#post-3263063)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I looked into this and determined that it’s a problem with Ultimate Security 
   Checker, not Block Bad Queries. I wrote up my analysis and suggested a work-around
   here:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/base64-fix-for-compatibility-with-new-block-bad-queries-plugin](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/base64-fix-for-compatibility-with-new-block-bad-queries-plugin)
 * Best wishes,
 * Fred

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 * Last reply from: [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-ultimate-security-plugin/#post-3263063)
 * Status: resolved