Title: Malware
Last modified: January 16, 2018

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# Malware

 *  Resolved [rbennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbennett/)
 * (@rbennett)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-75/)
 * Sucuri is saying that this file has malware
 * wp-content/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/class/wp-short-pixel.php
 * php.backdoor.generic.045.05
 * Please advise.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmalware-75%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [ShortPixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-75/#post-9870133)
 * Hi,
    thanks for your message!
 * There are 2 possible reasons for this message:
    1) a false positive alert by 
   Sucuri 2) your server was compromised and some scripts are injecting malicious
   code in your WP plugins, including ShortPixel’s files.
 * We tend to believe that 1) is the reason but if you want we could look into this
   further and make sure that our plugin’s code looks good.
 * Feel free to contact us [here](https://shortpixel.com/contact) if you wish.
 * Thanks,
    Alex
 *  Thread Starter [rbennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbennett/)
 * (@rbennett)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-75/#post-9870241)
 * Thanks. I will ask Sucuri to double check and let you know.
 *  Plugin Author [ShortPixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-75/#post-9871901)
 * Thank you! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [ShortPixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-75/#post-10016068)
 * For those interested, we eventually received this reply from Sucuri:
 * _I’ve downloaded this file [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/shortpixel-image-optimiser.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/shortpixel-image-optimiser.zip)
   and scanned the plugin – no warnings. It looks like you’ve already fixed the 
   issue caused by the name of on POST parameter, which together with several other
   signals triggered the php.backdoor.generic.045.05 warning._

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/shortpixel-image-optimiser/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3245715)
 * [ShortPixel Image Optimizer - Optimize Images, Convert WebP & AVIF](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/)
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 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ShortPixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-75/#post-10016068)
 * Status: resolved