Wordfence email alerts with faulty info? | WordPress.org

brightgirl
(@brightgirl)

5 years, 2 months ago

This morning I got 2 emails from Wordfence about problems on a site that I manage. One contained a list of plugins in need of update, but the weird thing is: these plugins are things I have never heard of that don’t exist on the site. I checked plugins in the Dashboard and even checked wp-content via FTP to make sure nothing funny was going on. Also said my WordPress core is in need of update, but it’s not (the site is running the latest). None of these plugins are anywhere to be found, so why is Wordfence telling me they need to be updated?

The second email said something about you are running the LiteSpeed web server and to make an htaccess fix to allow auto updates by Wordfence. Again, never heard of LiteSpeed, not using it on this site.

Did Wordfence alert emails somehow go wonky and send me issues from somebody else’s site? This is super odd!

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wfdave
(@wfdave)

5 years, 2 months ago

Hi @brightgirl,

Can you go into your email and show the original message?

For example: https://i.imgur.com/vAc8Bgv.png

Then, it should show some fields like this: https://i.imgur.com/OpTeHAj.png

What are the From, To, and SPF fields?

Dave

Thread Starter brightgirl
(@brightgirl)

5 years, 2 months ago

I use Apple’s Mail program, not GMail. The only thing in my menus similar to Show Original is to go under View > Message and choose either View Headers or View Raw Source. The message is From the server where the site is hosted. The message is to my email address. I don’t see anything labeled SPF, though.

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