Wordfence finds and shows \x0a in my header.php, but it is not there

  • Resolved Evgeny Viner

    (@evgenyviner)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi. I’m using a custom theme, and Wordfence keeps flagging my header.php with the following: https://prnt.sc/yJHkVYmFIL1l

    But the file is clean, there’s no ” \x0a” anywhere. I can’t figure out what the problem is. Can you help? Thanks.

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @evgenyviner,

    The screenshot shows “header_backup (18.3.22 15:13).php” as the file involved, so if you don’t require the backup version of the file, you could safely remove it to suppress the scan error. The \x0A character usually signifies the equivalent of a \n or line break, and as it appears to genuinely be at the end of HTML lines without other obfuscated code, may have been generated by a page builder or during the backup/duplication process itself.

    However, I think the presence of a filename that shouldn’t be in your theme’s folder is the main issue being flagged rather than the contents.

    Thanks,

    Peter.

    Thread Starter Evgeny Viner

    (@evgenyviner)

    2 years ago

    Hi. Thank you.

    Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    2 years ago

    No worries @evgenyviner, if you have any further Wordfence questions in future by all means start a new topic and we’ll always be glad to help.

    Peter.

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