Automated Scanning Time is Off

  • Resolved cinh800

    (@cinh800)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    I am on Version 1.15.3 and I noticed the automated scanning feature schedules the scans inconsistently.

    I have the following settings set:
    Automated Scanning – Daily
    Scanning Time – 6PM UTC

    And these are the wpscan job timestamps from Scheduled Actions:
    1st Run – 2021-06-25 18:00:00 +0000 (Time is correct)
    2nd Day – 2021-06-26 19:33:44 +0000
    3rd Day – 2021-06-27 20:23:15 +0000
    4th Day – 2021-06-28 20:34:48 +0000

    With each day the wpscan_schedule scanning time is pushed further back. I expected every day to run at the specified scanning time, but it is not.

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  • Plugin Contributor ethicalhack3r

    (@ethicalhack3r)

    2 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you for the report!

    We will try to reproduce and have a look into what might be causing this.

    Plugin Contributor ethicalhack3r

    (@ethicalhack3r)

    2 years, 10 months ago

    Can you confirm if this is a high traffic or low traffic website?

    In WordPress the cron event will only be triggered when someone visits the website. So if you schedule the job for 18:00, but then there are no website visitors until 19:33:44, then this could explain the issue.

    Thread Starter cinh800

    (@cinh800)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Ah, it is a low traffic website, that’s probably the reason.

    Is this a limitation with WordPress itself?

    Plugin Contributor ethicalhack3r

    (@ethicalhack3r)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Yea, I’m afraid so.

    You could create a script to “ping” the website at 18:01.

    curl http://example.com

    But that might be overkill.

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