Title: False positive – UpdraftPlus
Last modified: April 16, 2019

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# False positive – UpdraftPlus

 *  Resolved [MiKemp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikemp/)
 * (@mikemp)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-updraftplus/)
 * WF just returned a false positive on UpdraftPlus (free) on base.php.
    updraftplus/
   vendor/phpseclib/phpseclib/phpseclib/Crypt/Base.php I checked the installed file
   against the original, no diff.

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 *  [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * (@wfdave)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-updraftplus/#post-11438276)
 * Hi [@mikemp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikemp/),
 * Wordfence detected certain potentially malicious strings within that file. It
   wasn’t comparing the original with your copy.
 * You can safely ignore that warning if you have made sure that the file was unmodified.
 * Dave
 *  [SVTX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svtx/)
 * (@svtx)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-updraftplus/#post-11445031)
 * Wordfence is ALWAYS detecting malicious strings in UpdraftPlus’ files, get used
   to it 😀
 *  Thread Starter [MiKemp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikemp/)
 * (@mikemp)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-updraftplus/#post-11445354)
 * @stvx Yup, saw that. Was hoping that posting here would be one more small voice
   among the many asking for some sort of fix for this from the WF team.

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