Hi,
I logged into a client’s site that has had Wordfence installed on it for several years and there is a message stating:
To make your site as secure as possible, take a moment to optimize the Wordfence Web Application Firewall: CLICK HERE TO CONFIGURE DISMISS
If you cannot complete the setup process, click here for help(opens in new tab).
It’s confusing because we completed this step when we first installed Wordfence a few years ago – so I’m thinking it is unusual that it is asking to do this again. When I clicked on on “Configure” to see what it would says it brings up this message:
To make your site as secure as possible, the Wordfence Web Application Firewall is designed to run via a PHP setting called auto_prepend_file, which ensures it runs before any potentially vulnerable code runs. This PHP setting is currently in use, and is including this file:
/home/users/web/b1450/apo.goals5/newsite1/wordfence-waf.php
Has something changed/updated with Wordfence to make it want to run the Configure process on a website for a second time? Years later?
If you can offer any advice that would be helpful.
Thank you,
Maggie