Title: WP core false positive?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WP core false positive?

 *  Resolved [pingram](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingram3541/)
 * (@pingram3541)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-core-false-positive/)
 * Got a report on one of my sites listing just about every file inside /wp-includes/
   folder as being change/modified. When I logged in to check and open the file 
   compare I get this error on your website:
 * WordFence API error: You did not request a valid WordPress core file from WordFence.
 * The site recently updated to 4.3.1 and then a scan ran slightly afterwords. I’m
   not sure there is really anything wrong with these files.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-core-false-positive/#post-6548691)
 * Hi,
 * Are you running the latest version of Wordfence? If not, try updating and scanning
   again.
 * -Brian
 *  Thread Starter [pingram](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pingram3541/)
 * (@pingram3541)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-core-false-positive/#post-6548692)
 * Yes, I have automatic updates enabled too. It updated this morning before the
   scan. I was hoping the error message was the clue.
 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-core-false-positive/#post-6548764)
 * This most likely means that the scan started before the core update, and finished
   afterward. I haven’t seen this particular error from trying to use the comparison
   though.
 * Can you try marking at least one of the files as having been fixed, and try running
   the scan manually, and see if it comes up again?
 * Even if that does help, we’ll still look into the API error — let us know what
   you see in the next scan.

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