Title: Help Me Understand 'Exploit Scanner' Warning
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help Me Understand 'Exploit Scanner' Warning

 *  [bezmotivnik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bezmotivnik/)
 * (@bezmotivnik)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-understand-exploit-scanner-warning/)
 * I’m sure this is a tough subject for a new user, but when I ran it on my new 
   blog, I got a ‘Level Severe’ warning:
 * ===================
    Location / Description wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/
   css/jquery.tablesorter.min.js:4 Often used to execute malicious code
 * What was matched
    ark(“Evaling expression:”+dynamicExp,new Date());}eval(dynamicExp);
   cache.normalized.sort(sortWrapper); ====================
 * The part highlighted was “eval(” in the line above.
 * Is this something that needs attention or a false positive, or what?
 * If it’s important, how should I handle it?
 * Thanks for any help!

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 *  [Jon Cave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duck_/)
 * (@duck_)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-understand-exploit-scanner-warning/#post-2703851)
 * That looks like a false positive. To double check you could download a fresh 
   copy of tablesorter and compare it to that file to ensure no modifications have
   been made.
 *  Thread Starter [bezmotivnik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bezmotivnik/)
 * (@bezmotivnik)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-understand-exploit-scanner-warning/#post-2703928)
 * Thank you, I’ll try that.
 * It’s very hard for a layman to make sense out of the warnings.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [bezmotivnik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bezmotivnik/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-understand-exploit-scanner-warning/#post-2703928)
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