Title: [Plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner] ~1400 false positives?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner] ~1400 false positives?

 *  [TexInWien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/texinwien/)
 * (@texinwien)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-exploit-scanner-1400-false-positives/)
 * The results I get from the scan using version 0.94 of the WordPress Exploit Scanner
   on my WordPress 2.9.1 blog are somewhere between difficult and impossible to 
   interpret.
 * If I copy the results of the scan to a plain text file, the file is 5496 lines
   long. That suggests on the order of 1400 messages with one of the following severities:
   Blocker, Severe, Warning or Note.
 * I’ve searched for a guide or support that would help me weed out the false positives
   and determine whether I have any actual vulnerabilities that need attention, 
   but I haven’t found anything yet.
 * It would take ages to manually check every warning to decide whether it’s an 
   actual hack or not. With no additional help or resources, I have to assume that
   the exploit scanner is either broken or displays too many false positives to 
   be of any actual use at this time.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/)

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 *  [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-exploit-scanner-1400-false-positives/#post-1387116)
 * Just in case anyone else is looking at this, check out the development version
   from [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/download/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/download/)
   which has been improved somewhat.

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