• Hi.
    I have just upgraded wordfence to 5.3.5 and when I ran a scan it stopped then gave this message “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/haveonelikethis/loveagift.com/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceScanner.php on line 156”
    Is this something to worry about?
    Thanks
    Colin

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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  • Try setting the “Maximum execution time for each scan stage” on the options page to 20 and see if that helps. That should break the scans up in chinks of 20 seconds to avoid that.

    tim

    Thread Starter haveonelikethis

    (@haveonelikethis)

    Hi
    Many thanks for your reply. I did this on one site and it worked. On another site despite setting it to 20 it still said that it has exceeded 30 so this value must be somewhere else. I removed the tick on “scan file contents for backdoors, trojans “etc and it then worked. I would immediately leap to the malware idea except that it still shows 30. Is this the result of the latest update 5.3.5 as it did not appear before then. The scan seems to hang until killed.
    Any ideas anyone?
    regards
    Colin

    I think (not in front of computer right now) there is an option for debugging mode on the bottom of the options page. Run that and then use pastebin to post here.

    Thanks

    Tim

    Thread Starter haveonelikethis

    (@haveonelikethis)

    Hi
    I could not see debug so copied the log file
    [Jan 19 23:16:13:1421709373.514650:1:error] Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/haveonelikethis/thegoodgift.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceScanner.php on line 156
    [Jan 19 23:15:52:1421709352.053314:2:info] Scanned contents of 57 additional files at 9.73 per second
    [Jan 19 23:15:50:1421709350.950375:2:info] Scanned contents of 43 additional files at 9.04 per second
    [Jan 19 23:15:49:1421709349.921102:2:info] Scanned contents of 32 additional files at 8.59 per second
    [Jan 19 23:15:48:1421709348.913423:2:info] Scanned contents of 19 additional files at 6.99 per second
    [Jan 19 23:15:47:1421709347.280401:2:info] Scanned contents of 14 additional files at 12.91 per second
    [Jan 19 23:15:46:1421709346.195223:2:info] Starting scan of file contents
    [Jan 19 23:15:45:1421709345.975106:2:info] Analyzed 6080 files containing 98.15 MB of data.
    [Jan 19 23:15:45:1421709345.597170:2:info] Analyzed 6000 files containing 95.57 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:45:1421709345.350779:2:info] Analyzed 5900 files containing 94.49 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:45:1421709345.102852:2:info] Analyzed 5800 files containing 93.09 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:44:1421709344.909226:2:info] Analyzed 5700 files containing 92.56 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:39:1421709339.185241:2:info] Analyzed 5600 files containing 90.06 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:38:1421709338.698908:2:info] Analyzed 5500 files containing 87.46 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:38:1421709338.314512:2:info] Analyzed 5400 files containing 86.05 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:37:1421709337.877170:2:info] Analyzed 5300 files containing 84.69 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:37:1421709337.617170:2:info] Analyzed 5200 files containing 83.74 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:37:1421709337.195487:2:info] Analyzed 5100 files containing 82.78 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:36:1421709336.888617:2:info] Analyzed 5000 files containing 81.82 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:36:1421709336.533948:2:info] Analyzed 4900 files containing 80.87 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:36:1421709336.216610:2:info] Analyzed 4800 files containing 79.78 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:35:1421709335.891933:2:info] Analyzed 4700 files containing 77.76 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:35:1421709335.613606:2:info] Analyzed 4600 files containing 76.43 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:35:1421709335.265173:2:info] Analyzed 4500 files containing 74.69 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:34:1421709334.913108:2:info] Analyzed 4400 files containing 73.38 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:34:1421709334.444979:2:info] Analyzed 4300 files containing 72.22 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:34:1421709334.167867:2:info] Analyzed 4200 files containing 70.97 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:33:1421709333.929875:2:info] Analyzed 4100 files containing 69.99 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:33:1421709333.633039:2:info] Analyzed 4000 files containing 68.47 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:33:1421709333.271551:2:info] Analyzed 3900 files containing 67.2 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:32:1421709332.954649:2:info] Analyzed 3800 files containing 65.51 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:32:1421709332.688679:2:info] Analyzed 3700 files containing 64.14 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:32:1421709332.383068:2:info] Analyzed 3600 files containing 63.38 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:32:1421709332.133973:2:info] Analyzed 3500 files containing 61.96 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:31:1421709331.798138:2:info] Analyzed 3400 files containing 60.65 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:31:1421709331.589400:2:info] Analyzed 3300 files containing 60.08 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:31:1421709331.431754:2:info] Analyzed 3200 files containing 59.99 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:31:1421709331.080928:2:info] Analyzed 3100 files containing 58.93 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:30:1421709330.795456:2:info] Analyzed 3000 files containing 57.51 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:30:1421709330.528397:2:info] Analyzed 2900 files containing 56.45 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:30:1421709330.208098:2:info] Analyzed 2800 files containing 54.91 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:29:1421709329.722631:2:info] Analyzed 2700 files containing 54 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:29:1421709329.030378:2:info] Analyzed 2600 files containing 49.54 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:28:1421709328.670827:2:info] Analyzed 2500 files containing 48.22 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:27:1421709327.889621:2:info] Analyzed 2400 files containing 42.2 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:27:1421709327.641433:2:info] Analyzed 2300 files containing 41.98 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:27:1421709327.304490:2:info] Analyzed 2200 files containing 41 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:26:1421709326.795216:2:info] Analyzed 2100 files containing 39.92 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:26:1421709326.462912:2:info] Analyzed 2000 files containing 38.69 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:26:1421709326.110481:2:info] Analyzed 1900 files containing 37.46 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:25:1421709325.906148:2:info] Analyzed 1800 files containing 36.77 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:25:1421709325.728783:2:info] Analyzed 1700 files containing 36.3 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:25:1421709325.493456:2:info] Analyzed 1600 files containing 34.86 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:25:1421709325.305586:2:info] Analyzed 1500 files containing 34.35 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:25:1421709325.069955:2:info] Analyzed 1400 files containing 33.68 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:24:1421709324.895908:2:info] Analyzed 1300 files containing 33.29 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:24:1421709324.698335:2:info] Analyzed 1200 files containing 32.75 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:24:1421709324.453623:2:info] Analyzed 1100 files containing 31.84 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:23:1421709323.898089:2:info] Analyzed 1000 files containing 25.93 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:22:1421709322.976936:2:info] Analyzed 900 files containing 15.39 MB of data so far
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    [Jan 19 23:15:22:1421709322.444994:2:info] Analyzed 700 files containing 12.19 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:22:1421709322.134925:2:info] Analyzed 600 files containing 10.1 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:21:1421709321.873558:2:info] Analyzed 500 files containing 8.88 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:21:1421709321.497912:2:info] Analyzed 400 files containing 4.79 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:21:1421709321.290774:2:info] Analyzed 300 files containing 4.17 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:20:1421709320.901849:2:info] Analyzed 200 files containing 2.12 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:20:1421709320.684655:2:info] Analyzed 100 files containing 1.02 MB of data so far
    [Jan 19 23:15:19:1421709319.306883:2:info] Found 20 themes
    [Jan 19 23:15:19:1421709319.272435:2:info] Getting theme list from WordPress
    [Jan 19 23:15:19:1421709319.256721:2:info] Found 14 plugins
    [Jan 19 23:15:19:1421709319.159675:2:info] Getting plugin list from WordPress
    [Jan 19 23:15:19:1421709319.014540:1:info] Contacting Wordfence to initiate scan
    funny thing is when I looked for the debug in the options I suddenly saw that my settings had been reset to default – so the blocking was back to 20 instead of 2 (I am the only admin person)
    strange
    Colin

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