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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Wordfence files permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-files-permissions/)
 *  Thread Starter [xefix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xefix/)
 * (@xefix)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-files-permissions/#post-12132903)
 * Hello Dave,
 * The setup that I’m talking about: we have cPanel setup with multiple users.
    
   The files under …/user-account/public_html are owned by the user:user (755 for
   directories and 644 for files), and this is the default setup for cPanel. The
   apache/php processes are run under the “nobody” user (www-data, same thing). 
   The files created by WordPress (cache files, images, etc) are created with the
   644 permissions (the umask that the php process is using) – this works as intended.
 * The Wordfence plugin is explicitly setting the files permissions to 600 – and
   I am assuming that the plugin is ignoring these files and re-writes them on every
   page load – which I am not sure that is the intended behaviour(if the plugin 
   works correctly for websites that are hosted on cPanel).

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