po and mo files flagges

  • Resolved Flexer

    (@flexer)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    WPML uses the wp-includes/languages/ folder to store mo and po files. After updating to WP 5.6 all the files there are being flagged by WordFence as “Unknown file in WordPress core”

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Flexer.
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  • Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @flexer and thanks for reaching out to us!

    If you could do me a favor to test for us, navigate to Wordfence > All Options > Advanced Firewall Options > Manually Refresh Rules. Once you refresh them, do another scan to see if these results show again.

    Let me know what you find!

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Flexer

    (@flexer)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks @wfadam
    Did and unfortunately teh results were the same
    Daveed

    Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    I checked with our QA team on this just to be sure.

    It is safe to just “Ignore” these files from your scan.

    You might have an earlier installation that stayed that way through the years or may even be running an old version of WPML in which your files are still stored in the wp-includes. In the later versions, this is stored in the wp-content. That is why the scan is alerting you.

    Let me know if you have any questions!

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Flexer

    (@flexer)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you @wfadam

    There are hundreds of files, do I need to ignore each one individually, or is there a way to do this to all of them?

    I have quite a few other sites with WMPL and WF. I only updated this one to 4.6. The other ones are not showing this issue.
    Daveed

    Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    You could also disable the Scan wp-admin and wp-includes for files not bundled with WordPress in the Scan Options.

    I would recommend checking with WPML to see if there’s a way to switch to using wp-content/languages/ for these files.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Flexer

    (@flexer)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks @wfadam
    I ended up chatting to WPML.org support and it was most likely an old install that did not update properly. We fixed it by moving the languages folder to the correct spot.

    So ultimately WF helped me find an issue on the site I was otherwise not aware of. Unintended consequences 🙂

    Thanks again,
    Daveed

    Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the update!

    Glad you got it resolved!

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