Title: Plugin reporting trusted plugin as dangerous
Last modified: November 22, 2021

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# Plugin reporting trusted plugin as dangerous

 *  Resolved [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/)
 * Your plugin is reporting the plugin, or it’s PHP, wp-mail smtp as dangerous.
 * There is no public facing page for the plugin as it works in the WP dashboard
   for sending mail from forms using SMTP.
 * Surely this plugin is safe as it is used a lot to hanlde SMTP mail.
 * Please advise
 * Regards
 * Steve B

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 *  Plugin Author [alexandergull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexandergull/)
 * (@alexandergull)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15091165)
 * Hello [@stevehale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
    Thank you
   for coming back. Probably some code was changed and these changes were not included
   in standard WordPress distribution. To let us know the reason please tell me 
   your website name I will check the scan results.
 *  Thread Starter [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15091437)
 * Hi Alexander
 * The web site is : [https://completebuildingsolutions.co.uk](https://completebuildingsolutions.co.uk)
 * Regards
 * Steve B
 *  Plugin Author [alexandergull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexandergull/)
 * (@alexandergull)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15091579)
 * I found the plugin public page: [https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/)
 * The file
 * > /wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/vendor_prefixed/phpseclib/phpseclib/phpseclib/
   > Common/Functions/Strings.php
 * is modified from origin.
 * Can you send this file for analysis? [https://cleantalk.org/help/files-analysis](https://cleantalk.org/help/files-analysis)
 * Tell me when it is done.
 *  Thread Starter [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15091664)
 * OK. The file has been sent.
 * Steve
 *  Plugin Author [alexandergull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexandergull/)
 * (@alexandergull)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15091845)
 * Thank you. The files you have sent are safe.
    We will contact you within 48 hours
   to inform you why the file is on list. WBR
 *  Thread Starter [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15092324)
 * Thank you
 * Regards
 * Steve B
 *  Thread Starter [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15110370)
 * It is now 5 days later and long after your “48 Hours” to come back to me.
 * I am STILL getting warning emails about this good file.
 * Please can you advise
 * Regards
 * Steve B
 *  [SergeM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serge00/)
 * (@serge00)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15110462)
 * Hello, [@stevehale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/).
 * Sorry for the late reply. The files are safe indeed. The scanner triggered on
   the line containing “base64_decode” specifically.
 * Please, mark them as safe in the scanner results in your website backend:
    • 
   WordPress Admin Page —> Settings —> Security by CleanTalk —> Malware Scanner
 * Did it help?
 *  Plugin Author [alexandergull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexandergull/)
 * (@alexandergull)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reporting-trusted-plugin-as-dangerous-2/#post-15123855)
 * We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved–
   if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

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