Wordfence did stop working

Resolved TheBoss
(@theboss)

10 years, 2 months ago

Hi there

My Wordfence did stop working. I press Start a Wordfence scan and nothing are happening at the Scan Summary or Scan Detailed Activity.

I’ve been trying to reinstall it, but still nothing. I’m using the Better WP Security together with Wordfence. Can it be that? But on the other side: I haven’t got any problems before now.

Thomas

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

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Plugin Author Wordfence Security
(@mmaunder)

10 years, 2 months ago

Hi Thomas,

Did you install an under-construction plugin? Can you access /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php without being logged in and do you see a ‘0’ when you access that?

Regards,

Mark
PS: If you found this helpful, please rate Wordfence 5 stars.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

Thread Starter TheBoss
(@theboss)

10 years, 2 months ago

Did you install an under-construction plugin?
No

Can you access /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php without being logged in and do you see a ‘0’ when you access that?
Yes, but I’ll try again

It did stop to work, after I did Update WordPress to the newest version

Thread Starter TheBoss
(@theboss)

10 years, 2 months ago

I’m getting this, because of I had to re:install and did get a new code?

Scan Engine Error: Wordfence could not start a scan because the cron key does not match the saved key.

What to do?

Plugin Author Wordfence Security
(@mmaunder)

10 years, 2 months ago

Are you using a caching plugin?

Shen8889
(@shen8889)

9 years, 10 months ago

Hi Mark,

I am getting the same error as Thomas and yes I did install the Under Construction plugin.
What would I need to do to rectify this issue? It was fine before I installed the UC plugin.

Kind regards,
Shenyan

Plugin Author Wordfence Security
(@mmaunder)

9 years, 10 months ago

Shenyan, the under construction plugin will break scanning until you disable it. There’s no workaround unless you can tell your UC plugin to ignore the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URL.

Regards,

Mark.

dogdays
(@dogdays)

9 years, 6 months ago

I’m having the same problem.

I’m getting this error:
Wordfence Live Activity: Scan Engine Error: Wordfence could not start a scan because the cron key does not match the saved key.

How can I fix this?

I do not have an under-construction plugin installed

I input /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php and it output “0”

What does that mean?

dogdays
(@dogdays)

9 years, 6 months ago

I do have WP Fastest Cache installed. I disabled it and the scan is proceeding as expected now… I think. Unless it stalls and I get that message again. I guess that was it.

Thank you.