{"id":14557912,"date":"2021-06-15T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/suspicious-file-reported-in-updraftplus\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:26:40","slug":"suspicious-file-reported-in-updraftplus","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/suspicious-file-reported-in-updraftplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious file reported in UpdraftPlus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi &#8211; A recent malware scan by a security plugin resulted in a report of a suspicious function in the file bootstrap.php. The line of code flagged is: $our_keys[$updraft_key_index][&#8216;publickey_remote&#8217;] = base64_decode($_GET[&#8216;public_key&#8217;]);<\/p>\n<p>I know from experience and research base64_decode is not the huge security risk some might think it is. That said, your file is being flagged so I wanted to ask about it before I simply click the &#8216;ignore&#8217; option in the malware scanner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-14557912","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/14557912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/14557912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14557912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}