Title: Bug causing WordPress DB error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Bug causing WordPress DB error

 *  [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-causing-wordpress-db-error/)
 * Hi there,
    I noticed a bug in this plugin after finding these errors in my error_log
   file:
 * > [29-Dec-2015 18:25:53 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your
   > SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version 
   > for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1 for query SELECT ip FROM wp_simple_security_access_log
   > WHERE login_result = 0 and time LIKE ‘2015-12-29%’ GROUP BY ip HAVING COUNT(
   > ip) >= made by require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), 
   > require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘init’), call_user_func_array, Simple_Security_Tools-
   > >security_check
 * The problem is related to an unitialized `$this->opt_name` in method `security_check()`
   in file `simple-security-tools.php`.
 * This can be easily fixed by initializing that variable in the constructor, i.
   e.:
 *     ```
       $this->opt_name = 'simple-security-settings';
       ```
   
 * I hope that you can fix this in next releases.
 * Cheers.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-security/)

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 * Last reply from: [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-causing-wordpress-db-error/)
 * Status: not resolved