Title: Security Error after installation
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Security Error after installation

 *  Resolved [homerecords](https://wordpress.org/support/users/homerecords/)
 * (@homerecords)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-error-after-installation/)
 * Installed and straight at activating an error.
 * Plugin cannot be activated due to fatal error.
 * Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in ../wp-content/plugins/
   placester/third-party/mixpanel/mixpanel.php on line 28
 * What to do?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/placester/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/placester/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Placester Inc.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/placester/)
 * (@placester)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-error-after-installation/#post-5492883)
 * Hi homerecords,
 * That warning indicates that some code in the plugin is unable to run due to the
   environment settings of your hosting service. There is no specific security issue
   being flagged in this case; your host is preemptively disabling a mechanism that
   can sometimes be exploited for malicious purposes when it is used carelessly 
   in well-intentioned code. That risk is not present in the way we use it, so it’s
   something you might ask your host about. They may be able to change your settings
   or offer you a different level of service.
 * It looks like the particular line of code that triggers the warning, placester/
   third-party/mixpanel/mixpanel.php, can be commented out or removed without impacting
   the functionality of the plugin. So if you know how to go about doing something
   like that, you might give it a try. However, there may be other things in our
   code that trigger similar warnings for you. We have been made aware that some
   hosts block WordPress plugins from making their own calls over the internet, 
   and that is something the Placester plugin needs to do to access property listing
   data when serving up web pages.
 *  Thread Starter [homerecords](https://wordpress.org/support/users/homerecords/)
 * (@homerecords)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-error-after-installation/#post-5492978)
 * [@placester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/placester/) Inc. Member:
 * Thanks a lot. That puts me on the right track.
    Actually my host has indeed disabled
   several features for security reasons recently.

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