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Updated definition files can be downloaded automatically within the admin once your Key is registered. Otherwise, this plugin just scans for \"Potential Threats\" and leaves it up to you to identify and remove the malicious ones.\n\nNOTICE: This plugin make call to GOTMLS.NET to check for updates not unlike what WordPress does when checking your plugins and themes for new versions. Staying up-to-date is an essential part of any security plugin and this plugin can let you know when there are new plugin and definition update available. If you\'re allergic to \"phone home\" scripts then don\'t use this plugin (or WordPress at all for that matter).\n\n**Special thanks to:**\n\n* Clarus Dignus for design suggestions and graphic design work on the banner image.\n* Jelena Kovacevic and Andrew Kurtis of webhostinghub.com for providing the Spanish translation.\n* Marcelo Guernieri for the Brazilian Portuguese translation.\n* Umut Can Alparslan for the Turkish translation.\n* [Micha Cassola](https://profiles.wordpress.org/michacassola/) for the German translation.\n* [Robi Erwin Setiawan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/situstarget/) for the Indonesian translation.\n\n== Installation ==\n\n1. Download and unzip the plugin into your WordPress plugins directory (usually `/wp-content/plugins/`).\n1. Activate the plugin through the \'Plugins\' menu in your WordPress Admin.\n1. Register on gotmls.net and download the newest definition updates to scan for Known Threats.\n\n== Frequently Asked Questions ==\n\n= Why should I register? =\n\nIf you register on [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) you will have access to download definitions of New Threats and added features like automatic removal of \"Known Threats\" and patches for specific security issues like old versions of timthumb and brute-force attacks on wp-login.php. Otherwise, this plugin only scans for \"Potential Threats\" on your site, it would then be up to you to identify the good from the bad and remove them accordingly. \n\n= How do I patch the Revolution Slider vulnerability? =\n\nEasy, if you have installed and activated my this Anti-Malware plugin on your site then it will automatically block attempts to exploit the Revolution Slider vulnerability.\n\n= How do I patch the wp-login vulnerability? =\n\nThe WordPress Login page is susceptible to a brute-force attack (just like any other login page). These types of attacks are becoming more prevalent these days and can sometimes cause your server to become slow or unresponsive, even if the attacks do not succeed in gaining access to your site. This plugin can apply a patch that will block access to the WordPress Login page whenever this type of attack is detected. Just click the Install Patch button under Brute-force Protection on the Anti-Malware Setting page. For more information on this subject [read my blog](http://gotmls.net/tag/wp-login-php/).\n\n= Why can\'t I automatically remove the \"Potential Threats\" in yellow? =\n\nMany of these files may use eval and other powerful PHP function for perfectly legitimate reasons and removing that code from the files would likely cripple or even break your site so I have only enabled the Auto remove feature for \"Know Threats\".\n\n= How do I know if any of the \"Potential Threats\" are dangerous? =\n\nClick on the linked filename to examine it, then click each numbered link above the file content box to highlight the suspicious code. If you cannot tell whether or not the code is malicious just leave it alone or ask someone else to look at it for you. If you find that it is malicious please send me a copy of the file so that I can add it to my definition update as a \"Know Threat\", then it can be automatically removed.\n\n= What if the scan gets stuck part way through? =\n\nFirst just leave it for a while. If there are a lot of files on your server it could take quite a while and could sometimes appear to not be moving along at all even if it really is working. If it still seems stuck after a while then try running the scan again, be sure you try both the Complete Scan and the Quick scan.\n\n= How did I get hacked in the first place? =\n\nFirst, don\'t take the attack personally. Lots of hackers routinely run automated script that crawl the internet looking for easy targets. Your site probably got hacked because you are unknowingly an easy target. This might be because you are running an older version of WordPress or have installed a Plugin or Theme with a backdoor or known security vulnerability. However, the most common type of infection I see is cross-contamination. This can happen when your site is on a shared server with other exploitable sites that got infected. In most shared hosting environments it\'s possible for hackers to use an one infected site to infect other sites on the same server, sometimes even if the sites are on different accounts.\n\n= What can I do to prevent it from happening again? =\n\nThere is no sure way to protect your site from every kind of hack attempt. That said, don\'t be an easy target. 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The Scan Setting page in the admin.\n3. An example scan that found some threats.\n4. The results window when \"Automatic Repair\" fixes threats.\n5. The Quarantine showing threats that have been fix already.\n\n== Changelog ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\n* Fixed the Uncaught Value Error when scanning files that use Windows-1252 encoding which is unsupported by the PHP function mb_regex_encoding.\n* Fixed other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\n* Fixed some HTML formatting issues.\n* Fixed a JavaScript error in the scan engine that prevented second attempts to scan directories that failed on the first try.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\n* Fixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\n* Added more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables.\n* Checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\n* Added late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team.\n* Fixed a PHP warning about is_dir when it attempts check the existance of a directory that was scanned in the past but is now outside the allowable scan path.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\n* Code review and 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(Thanks dragonflyfla)\n* Fixed a few bug in the Whitelist definition feature.\n\n= 3.07.06 =\n* Added SSL support for definition updates and registration form.\n* Upgraded the Whitelist feature so the it could not contain duplicates.\n* Downgraded the WP-Login threat and changed it to an opt-in fix.\n* Fixed a bug in the Add to Whitelist feature so the you do not need to update the definitions after whitelisting a file.\n* Added ability to whitelist files.\n* Fixed a major bug in yesterdays release broke the login page on some sites.\n* Added a patch for the wp-login.php brute force attack that has been going around.\n* Created a process to restore files from the Quarantine.\n* Fixed a few other small bugs including path issues on Winblows server.\n\n= 1.3.02.15 =\n* Improved security on the Quarantine directory to fix the 500 error on some servers.\n* Fixed count of Quarantined items.\n* Added htaccess security to the Uploads directory.\n* Linked the Quarantined items to the File Examiner.\n* Added a scan category for Backdoor Scripts.\n* Consolidated the Definition Types and added a Whitelist category.\n* Completely redesigned the Definition Updates to handle incremental updates.\n* Added \"View Quarantine\" to the menu.\n* Enhanced Output Buffer to work with compression enabled (like ob_gzhandler).\n* Moved the quarantine to the uploads directory to protect against blanket inclusion.\n* Fixed Output Buffer issue for when ob_start has already been called.\n* Enhanced the Automatic Fix process to handle bad directory permissions.\n* Added more detailed error messages for different types of file errors.\n* Improved overall error handling.\n* Minor UI enhancements and a few bug fixes.\n* Completely revamped the scan engine to handle large file systems with better error handling.\n* Enhanced the results for the Automatic Fix process.\n* Fixed a few other small bugs.\n* Enhanced the iFrame for the File Viewer and Automatic Fix process.\n* Improved error handling during the scan.\n* Moved the File Viewer and Automatic Fix process into an iFrame to decrease scan time and memory usage.\n* Enhanced the Automatic Fix process for better success with read-only files.\n* Improved code cleanup process and general efficiency of the scan.\n* Encoded definition update for better compatibility with some servers that have post limitation.\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability.\n* Changed registration to allow for multiple sites/keys to be registered under one user/email.\n* Changed auto-update path to update threat level array for all new definition updates.\n* Updated timthumb replacement patch to version 2.8.10 per WordPress.org plugins requirement.\n* Fixed option to exclude directories so that the scan would not get stuck if omitted.\n* Added support for winblows servers using BACKSLASH directory structures.\n* Changed definition updates to write to the DB instead of a file.\n\n= 1.2.03.23 =\n* First versions available for WordPress (code removed, no longer compatible).\n\n== Upgrade Notice ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\nFixed the Uncaught Value Error in mb_regex_encoding, and other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\nFixed some HTML formatting issues and a JavaScript error in the scan engine.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\nFixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\nAdded more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables and checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\nAdded late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team and fixed a PHP warning about is_dir.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\nCode review and cleanup, added more sanitization and fixed an error when attempting to unserialize an array.\n\n= 4.21.86 =\nImproved the removal of database injections when values are serialized, and fixed a vulnerability in using unserialize with Class Objects, as well as some other PHP warnings about undefined indexes.\n\n= 4.21.85 =\nPrevented infinite looping on recursive sub-directories and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.4.\n\n= 4.21.84 =\nRemoved the no_error_reporting debug option and checked compatibility with WordPress 6.0.2 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.83 =\nFixed XSS vulnerability, plus other minor improvements and compatibility with WordPress 6.0.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.74 =\nUpdated code with various minor improvements to efficiency and compatibility with WordPress 6.0.\n\n= 4.20.96 =\nFixed XSS vulnerability by removing unsanitized QUERY_STRING, cleaned up Quarantine code, and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.2.\n\n= 4.20.95 =\nAdded more sanitization and validation to all user data entered for better security and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.\n\n= 4.20.94 =\nFixed an XSS vulnerability and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.8.3.\n\n= 4.20.93 =\nFixed undefined variable warning and updated code for compatibility with PHP version 8.0.\n\n= 4.20.92 =\nAdded German translation, improved firewall compatibility with Apache, fixed session check in Site Health for REST API compatibility, and checked code compatibility with WordPress 5.8.1 and ClassicPress 1.3.1.\n\n= 4.20.72 =\nUpdated registration form, fixed session check, and removed older code from WordPress Repository.\n\n= 4.20.59 =\nVarious minor bug fixes, added Core Files Definitions for ClassicPress, and tweaked code for better compatibility with WordPress 5.7.2 and ClassicPress 1.2.0.\n\n= 4.19.69 =\nFixed a JavaScript error caused by a new French translation and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.4.1.\n\n= 4.19.68 =\nUpdated some external links and tweaked code for better compatibility with PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4.\n\n= 4.19.50 =\nAdded even more error handling to the DB Scan for low memory_limit, modified the Directory Scan Depth to accept 0 as way to skip the Directory Scan, and added some Help tips to some of the options on the Settings page.\n\n= 4.19.44 =\nUpdated links, added more error handling to the DB Scan, various performance improvements, fixed path to work on Windows servers and a few minor bugs causing PHP Notices, and weaked code for compatibility with WP 5.3 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.76 =\nCleaned up the Nonce Token code and Quarantine page, fixed recovery link, and added debugging for login errors plus WP head and footer Hooks.\n\n= 4.18.74 =\nFixed a bug in the Nonce Token Errors that was created by changes in the last release.\n\n= 4.18.71 =\nAdded wp_options table to the db_scan and fixed a few minor bugs in the quarantine view, and changed some wording and checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.69 =\nAdded a Warning message about the vulnerability in the yuzo-related-post plugin,  updated the Quarantine interface with a re-scan / re-clean feature, fixed a bug in the scan depth array that would produce PHP Notices, changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues, and checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.63 =\nFixed a major bug in the Firewall updates that could cause a False Positive lockout.\n\n= 4.18.62 =\nFixed a few minor bugs and updated code for compatibility with WP 5.1.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.52 =\nAdded a whole new DB Scan category, updated Firewall landing page, removed some old code that was no longer needed, clear cache files before running the Complete Scan,, and updated code for compatibility with WP 5.0.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.17.69 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.8, fixed PHP Notice and escaped single-quotes in translated strings.\n\n= 4.17.68 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.7, removed dashicon from Settings link and the broken vote WORKS link, and reordered priorety on fixing Known Threats.\n\n= 4.17.58 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.4, fixed dashicons sizing in css, add ability to update registration email from within the plugin settings, and cleaned up expired nonce tokens left behind from an older version.\n\n= 4.17.57 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.3, fixed registration form and alternate domain for definition updates to work on HTTPS, and fixed the wording on the Title Check error message.\n\n= 4.17.44 =\nAdded Title check to make sure it does say you were hacked, updated code for compatibility with WP 4.8.3 and fixed Undefined variable error in Quarantine and an XSS vulnerability in nonce error output.\n\n= 4.17.29 =\nChanged the definition update URL to only use SSL when required, and updated PayPal form for better domestic IPN compatibility.\n\n= 4.17.28 =\nAdded the Turkish translation thanks to Umut Can Alparslan, improved the auto update feature, and fixed the admin username change feature on multisite installs (Plus many other improvement from v4.16.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 4.16.17 =\nRemoved Menu Item Placement Options that were deprecated in WP 4.5, Added firewall options for better compatibility with WP Firewall 2, and fixed an XSS vulnerability in the debug output of the nonce token (Plus many other improvement from v4.15.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 4.15.16 =\nCreated automatic definition updates that include WordPress Core files, more improvements to the Brute-Force protection patch (Plus many other improvement from v4.14.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 4.14.47 =\nMajor upgrade to the protection for Brute-Force attempts, and a bug fix for resetting the permissions of read-only files (Plus many other improvement from v3.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 3.07.06 =\nAdded SSL support for definition updates and upgraded the Whitelist feature (Plus many other improvement from v1.3.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 1.3.02.15 =\nImproved security on the Quarantine directory to fix the 500 error on some servers (Plus many other improvement from v1.2.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 1.2.03.23 =\nFirst versions available for WordPress (code removed, no longer compatible).\n\";s:8:\"response\";a:2:{s:4:\"code\";i:200;s:7:\"message\";s:2:\"OK\";}s:7:\"cookies\";a:0:{}s:8:\"filename\";N;s:13:\"http_response\";O:25:\"WP_HTTP_Requests_Response\":5:{s:11:\"\0*\0response\";O:23:\"WpOrg\\Requests\\Response\":10:{s:4:\"body\";s:33998:\"=== Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall ===\nPlugin URI: https://gotmls.net/\nAuthor: Eli Scheetz\nAuthor URI: http://wordpress.ieonly.com/category/my-plugins/anti-malware/\nContributors: gotmls, scheeeli\nDonate link: https://gotmls.net/donate/\nTags: security, firewall, anti-malware, scanner, automatic, repair, remove, malware, virus, threat, hacked, malicious, infection, timthumb, exploit, block, brute-force, wp-login, patch, antimalware, revslider, Revolution Slider\nVersion: 4.21.92\nStable tag: 4.21.92\nRequires at least: 3.3\nTested up to: 6.1.1\n\nThis Anti-Malware scanner searches for Malware, Viruses, and other security threats and vulnerabilities on your server and it helps you fix them.\n\n== Description ==\n\n**Features:**\n\n* Download Definition Updates to protect against new threats.\n* Run a Complete Scan to automatically remove known security threats, backdoor scripts, and database injections.\n* Firewall block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting Revolution Slider and other plugins with known vulnerabilites.\n* Upgrade vulnerable versions of timthumb scripts.\n\n**Premium Features:**\n\n* Patch your wp-login and XMLRPC to block Brute-Force and DDoS attacks.\n* Check the integrity of your WordPress Core files.\n* Automatically download new Definition Updates when running a Complete Scan.\n\nRegister this plugin at [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) and get access to new definitions of \"Known Threats\" and added features like Automatic Removal, plus patches for specific security vulnerabilities like old versions of timthumb. Updated definition files can be downloaded automatically within the admin once your Key is registered. Otherwise, this plugin just scans for \"Potential Threats\" and leaves it up to you to identify and remove the malicious ones.\n\nNOTICE: This plugin make call to GOTMLS.NET to check for updates not unlike what WordPress does when checking your plugins and themes for new versions. Staying up-to-date is an essential part of any security plugin and this plugin can let you know when there are new plugin and definition update available. If you\'re allergic to \"phone home\" scripts then don\'t use this plugin (or WordPress at all for that matter).\n\n**Special thanks to:**\n\n* Clarus Dignus for design suggestions and graphic design work on the banner image.\n* Jelena Kovacevic and Andrew Kurtis of webhostinghub.com for providing the Spanish translation.\n* Marcelo Guernieri for the Brazilian Portuguese translation.\n* Umut Can Alparslan for the Turkish translation.\n* [Micha Cassola](https://profiles.wordpress.org/michacassola/) for the German translation.\n* [Robi Erwin Setiawan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/situstarget/) for the Indonesian translation.\n\n== Installation ==\n\n1. Download and unzip the plugin into your WordPress plugins directory (usually `/wp-content/plugins/`).\n1. Activate the plugin through the \'Plugins\' menu in your WordPress Admin.\n1. Register on gotmls.net and download the newest definition updates to scan for Known Threats.\n\n== Frequently Asked Questions ==\n\n= Why should I register? =\n\nIf you register on [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) you will have access to download definitions of New Threats and added features like automatic removal of \"Known Threats\" and patches for specific security issues like old versions of timthumb and brute-force attacks on wp-login.php. Otherwise, this plugin only scans for \"Potential Threats\" on your site, it would then be up to you to identify the good from the bad and remove them accordingly. \n\n= How do I patch the Revolution Slider vulnerability? =\n\nEasy, if you have installed and activated my this Anti-Malware plugin on your site then it will automatically block attempts to exploit the Revolution Slider vulnerability.\n\n= How do I patch the wp-login vulnerability? =\n\nThe WordPress Login page is susceptible to a brute-force attack (just like any other login page). These types of attacks are becoming more prevalent these days and can sometimes cause your server to become slow or unresponsive, even if the attacks do not succeed in gaining access to your site. This plugin can apply a patch that will block access to the WordPress Login page whenever this type of attack is detected. Just click the Install Patch button under Brute-force Protection on the Anti-Malware Setting page. For more information on this subject [read my blog](http://gotmls.net/tag/wp-login-php/).\n\n= Why can\'t I automatically remove the \"Potential Threats\" in yellow? =\n\nMany of these files may use eval and other powerful PHP function for perfectly legitimate reasons and removing that code from the files would likely cripple or even break your site so I have only enabled the Auto remove feature for \"Know Threats\".\n\n= How do I know if any of the \"Potential Threats\" are dangerous? =\n\nClick on the linked filename to examine it, then click each numbered link above the file content box to highlight the suspicious code. If you cannot tell whether or not the code is malicious just leave it alone or ask someone else to look at it for you. If you find that it is malicious please send me a copy of the file so that I can add it to my definition update as a \"Know Threat\", then it can be automatically removed.\n\n= What if the scan gets stuck part way through? =\n\nFirst just leave it for a while. If there are a lot of files on your server it could take quite a while and could sometimes appear to not be moving along at all even if it really is working. If it still seems stuck after a while then try running the scan again, be sure you try both the Complete Scan and the Quick scan.\n\n= How did I get hacked in the first place? =\n\nFirst, don\'t take the attack personally. Lots of hackers routinely run automated script that crawl the internet looking for easy targets. Your site probably got hacked because you are unknowingly an easy target. This might be because you are running an older version of WordPress or have installed a Plugin or Theme with a backdoor or known security vulnerability. However, the most common type of infection I see is cross-contamination. This can happen when your site is on a shared server with other exploitable sites that got infected. In most shared hosting environments it\'s possible for hackers to use an one infected site to infect other sites on the same server, sometimes even if the sites are on different accounts.\n\n= What can I do to prevent it from happening again? =\n\nThere is no sure way to protect your site from every kind of hack attempt. That said, don\'t be an easy target. Some basic steps should include: hardening your password, keeping all your sites up-to-date, and run regular scans with Anti-Malware software like [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/)\n\n= Why does sucuri.net or the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic page still say my site is infected after I have removed the malicious code? =\n\nsucuri.net caches their scan results and will not refresh the scan until you click the small link near the bottom of the page that says \"Force a Re-scan\" to clear the cache. Google also caches your infected pages and usually takes some time before crawling your site again, but you can speed up that process by Requesting a Review in the Malware or Security section of [Google Webmaster Tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/). It is a good idea to have a Webmaster Tools account for your site anyway as it can provide lots of other helpful information about your site.\n\n== Screenshots ==\n\n1. The menu showing Anti-Malware options.\n2. The Scan Setting page in the admin.\n3. An example scan that found some threats.\n4. The results window when \"Automatic Repair\" fixes threats.\n5. The Quarantine showing threats that have been fix already.\n\n== Changelog ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\n* Fixed the Uncaught Value Error when scanning files that use Windows-1252 encoding which is unsupported by the PHP function mb_regex_encoding.\n* Fixed other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\n* Fixed some HTML formatting issues.\n* Fixed a JavaScript error in the scan engine that prevented second attempts to scan directories that failed on the first try.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\n* Fixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\n* Added more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables.\n* Checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\n* Added late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team.\n* Fixed a PHP warning about is_dir when it attempts check the existance of a directory that was scanned in the past but is now outside the allowable scan path.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\n* Code review and cleanup, added more sanitization.\n* Fixed an error when attempting to unserialize an array.\n\n= 4.21.86 =\n* Improved the removal of database injections when values are serialized.\n* Fixed a vulnerability in using unserialize with Class Objects.\n* Fixed PHP warnings about undefined indexes.\n\n= 4.21.85 =\n* Prevented infinite looping on recursive sub-directories.\n* Changed some default values.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.4.\n\n= 4.21.84 =\n* Removed the no_error_reporting option used for debugging when server errors are breaking the site.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.0.2 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.83 =\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability on debug URLs introduced in the last release, thanks Erwan Le Rousseau.\n* Updated code with other various minor improvements bug fixed.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.0.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.74 =\n* Updated code with various minor improvements to efficiency and compatibility.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.0.\n\n= 4.20.96 =\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability by removing unsanitized QUERY_STRING.\n* Cleaned up Quarantine code, removing legacy functions and adding more detailed info.\n* Fixed undefined variable notice and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.2.\n\n= 4.20.95 =\n* Added more sanitization and validation to all user data entered for better security.\n* checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.\n\n= 4.20.94 =\n* Fixed an XSS vulnerability and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.8.3.\n\n= 4.20.93 =\n* Fixed undefined variable warning.\n* Updated code for compatibility with PHP version 8.0.\n\n= 4.20.92 =\n* Added German translation thanks to Micha Cassola.\n* Improved the Apache software version checker for better firewall compatibility.\n* Fixed session compatibility that was conflicting with the REST API check in Site Health.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.8.1 and ClassicPress 1.3.1.\n\n= 4.20.72 =\n* Updated registration form to be more compatible with newer iframe restrictions.\n* Fixed session check on the Brute-Force patch to no longer need mod_rewrite.\n* Removed older code from WordPress Repository.\n\n= 4.20.59 =\n* Various minor bug fixes.\n* Added Core Files Definitions for ClassicPress.\n* Tweaked code for better compatibility with WordPress 5.7.2 and ClassicPress 1.2.0.\n\n= 4.19.69 =\n* Fixed a JavaScript error caused by a new French translation.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.4.1.\n\n= 4.19.68 =\n* Updated some external links.\n* Tweaked code for better compatibility with PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4.\n\n= 4.19.50 =\n* Added even more error handling to the DB Scan for servers with the PHP memory_limit set too low.\n* Modified the Directory Scan Depth to accept 0 as a value to indicate skipping the Directory Scan (use this to focus on the DB Scan).\n* Added some Help tips to some of the options on the Settings page.\n\n= 4.19.44 =\n* Updated links to use HTTPS by default and fixed some old URLs.\n* Various performance improvements.\n* Added more error handling to the DB Scan.\n* Fixed a few minor bugs causing PHP Notices.\n* Fixed a path search to work on Windows servers.\n* Tweaked code for compatibility with WP 5.3 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.76 =\n* Cleaned up the Nonce Token creation and storage functions.\n* Cleaned up View Quarantine page and fixed recovery link.\n* Added debugging for login errors WP head and footer Hooks.\n\n= 4.18.74 =\n* Fixed a bug in the Nonce Token Errors that was created by changes in the last release.\n\n= 4.18.71 =\n* Added wp_options table to the db_scan.\n* Fixed a few minor bugs in the db scan quarantine view.\n* Changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.69 =\n* Added a Warning message about the vulnerability in the yuzo-related-post plugin.\n* Updated the Quarantine interface and added a re-scan / re-clean feature.\n* Fixed a bug in the scan depth array that would produce PHP Notices in the error_log files under certain conditions.\n* Changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues.\n* Removed some outdated JavaScript that is no longer needed.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.63 =\n* Fixed a major bug in the Firewall updates that could cause a False Positive lockout.\n\n= 4.18.62 =\n* Fixed a bug in the Firewall that prevented some iPad devices from logging in.\n* Fixed an encoding bug that prevented the Examine File window from dispaying some file formats.\n* Restored the File Details window in the Examine File window.\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 5.1.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.52 =\n* Added a whole new DB Scan category that looks for links and scripts injected directly into the database content and removes them.\n* Updated Firewall landing page for HTTPS compatibility.\n* Removed some old code that was no longer needed.\n* Added a feature to clear cache files before running the Complete Scan, this will speed up the scan and prevent malware from being saved on your cached paged.\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 5.0.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.17.69 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.8 (latest release).\n* Fixed PHP Notice for the unknown offset of SERVER_parts.\n* Escaped single-quotes in translated strings for use within JavaScript.\n\n= 4.17.68 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.7 (latest release).\n* Removed wrong size dashicon from Settings link in plugin list.\n* Removed the broken link to vote WORKS on wordpress.org.\n* Reordered priorety on fixing Known Threats to be more efficient.\n\n= 4.17.58 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.4 (latest release).\n* Fixed dashicons sizing in css.\n* Add ability to update registration email from within the plugin settings.\n* Cleaned up expired nonce tokens left behind from an older version.\n\n= 4.17.57 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.3 (latest release).\n* Fixed registration form and alternate domain for definition updates to work on HTTPS.\n* Fixed the wording on the Title check error message.\n\n= 4.17.44 =\n* Added Title check to make sure it does say you were hacked.\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.8.3 (latest release).\n* Fixed Undefined variable error in Quarantine.\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability in nonce error output.\n\n= 4.17.29 =\n* Changed the definition update URL to only use SSL when required.\n* Updated PayPal form for better domestic IPN compatibility.\n\n= 4.17.28 =\n* Added the Turkish translation thanks to Umut Can Alparslan.\n* Improved the auto update so that old definitions could be phased out and new threat types would be selected by default.\n* Fixed the admin username change feature on multisite installs.\n* Fixed the details window so that it scrolls to the highlighted code.\n* Set defaults to disable the Potential Threat scan if other threats definitions are enabled.\n* Encoded definitions array for DB storage.\n* Fixed syntax error in the XMLRPC patch for newer versions of Apache.\n* Added fall-back to manual updates if the Automatic update feature fails.\n* Fixed PHP Notices about undefined variable added in last Version release.\n* Improved Apache version detection.\n* Changed Automatic update feature to automatically download all definitions and firewall updates.\n* Added PHP and Apache version detections and changed the XMLRPC patch to work with Apache 2.4 directives.\n* Removed the onbeforeunload function because Norton detected it as a False Positive.\n* Removed code that was deprecated in PHP Version 7.\n* Fixed PHP Notice about an array to string conversion with some rare global variable conditions.\n* Added more firewall options.\n* Moved Scan Log from the Quarantine page to the main Setings page.\n* Fixed PHP Warning about an invalid argument in foreach and some other bugs too.\n* Fixed \"What to look for\" Options so that changes are saved.\n* Changed get_currentuserinfo to wp_get_current_user because the get_currentuserinfo function was deprecated in WP 4.5\n\n= 4.16.17 =\n* Removed Menu Item Placement Options because the add_object_page function was deprecated in WP 4.5.\n* Added firewall options for better compatibility with WP Firewall 2.\n* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in the debug output of the nonce token.\n* Moved the Firewall Options to it\'s own page linked to from the admin menu.\n* Moved the Quick Scan from the admin menu to the top of the Scan Settings page.\n* Fixed PHP Warning about in_array function expecting parameter 2 to be an array, found by Georgey B.\n* Made a few minor cosmetic changes and fixed a few other small bugs in the interface.\n* Fixed the Nonce Token error caused by W3 Total Cache breaking the set_transient function in WordPress.\n* Added the Brazilian Portuguese language files, thanks to Marcelo Guernieri for the translation.\n* Fixed the admin menu and also some links that did not work on Windows server.\n* Added Core Files to the Quick Scan list on the admin menu.\n* Added a nonce token to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery by admins who are logged-in from another site.\n* Hardened against XSS vulnerability triggered by the file names being scanned (thanks to Mahadev Subedi).\n* Improved brute-force patch compatibility with alternate wp-config.php location.\n* Had to remove the encoding of the Default Definitions to meet the WordPress Plugin Guidelines.\n* Improved the JavaScript in the new Brute-Force login patch so that it works with caching enabled on the login page.\n* Improved the Brute-Force login patch with custom fields and JavaScript. \n* Added a Save button to that Scan Settings page.\n* Fixed a bug in the XMLRPC Patch \"Unblock\" feature.\n* Added a link to purge the deleted Quarantine items from the database.\n* Added firewall option to Block all XMLRPC calls.\n* Fixed a few cosmetic bugs in the quarantine and firewall options.\n* Fixed a bugs in the Quarantine that was memory_limit errors if there number of files in the was too high.\n* Added the highlight malicious code feature back to the Quarantine file viewer.\n* Added the ability to change the admin username if the current username is \"admin\".\n* Improved the code in the Brute-Force Protection patch.\n* Fixed a few bugs in the Core Files Check that was preventing it from fixing some unusual file modifications.\n* Fixed a major bug that made multisite scan extremely slow and sometimes error out.\n* Moved all ajax call out of the init function and into their own functions for better handling time.\n* Moved the quarantine files into the database and deleted the old directory in uploads.\n* Fixed some minor formatting issues in the HTML output on the settings page.\n* Added a warning message if base64_decode has been disabled.\n* Hardened against injected HTML content by encoding the tags with variables.\n* Fixed debug option to exclude individual definitions.\n* Hardened admin_init with current_user_can and realpath on the quarantine file deletion (thanks to J.D. Grimes).\n* Fixed another XSS vulnerabilities in the admin (thanks to James H.)\n* Hardened against XSS vulnerabilities in the admin (thanks to Tim Coen).\n* Added feature to restore default settings for Exclude Extensions.\n* Changed the encoding on the index.php file in the Quarantine to make it more human-readable.\n* Fixed a few small bugs that were throwing PHP Notices in some configurations and added more info to some error messages.\n* Extended execution_time during the Fix process to increase the number of files that could be fixed at a time.\n* Added a Quarantine log to the database.\n* Fixed a couple of minor bugs that would throw PHP notices.\n\n= 4.15.16 =\n* Created an automatic update feature that downloads any new definition updates before starting the scan.\n* Added WordPress Core files to the new definitions update process and included a scan option to check the integrity of the Core files.\n* Automatically whitelisted the unmodified WordPress Core files.\n* Made more improvements to the Brute-Force protection patch and other minor cosmetic changes to the interface.\n* Protected the HTML in my plugin from filter injections and fixed a few other minor bugs.\n* Fixed a problem with deleting files from the Quarantine folder.\n* Added a descriptive reason to the error displayed if the fix was unsuccessful.\n* Added link to restore the default location of the Examine Results window.\n* Improved the encoding of definition updates so that they would not be blocked by poorly written firewall rules.\n* Suppressed the \"Please make a donation\" nag if the fix was unsuccessful, to avoid confusion over premium services.\n* Removed debug alert from initial session check.\n* Improved rewrite compatibility of session check for the Brute-Force Protection Installation.\n* Improved session check for the option to Install Brute-Force Protection and added an error message on failure.\n* Improved support for Multisite by only allowing Network Admins access to the Anti-Malware menu.\n* Added link to view a simple scan history on the Quarantine page.\n* Updated firewall to better protect agains new variations of the RevSlider Exploit.\n* Improved check for session support before giving the option to Install Brute-Force patch.\n* Added option to skip scanning the Quarantined files.\n* Updated Brute-Force patch to fix the problem of being included more that once.\n* Fixed a few minor bugs (better window positioning and css, cleaner results page, updated new help tab, etc.).\n* Made sure that the plugin does not check my servers for updates unless you have registered (this opt-in requirement is part of the WordPress Repository Guidelines).\n* Added exception for the social.png files to the skip files by extension list.\n* Fixed removal of Known Threats from files in the Quarantine directory.\n* Block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting the Slider Revolution Vulnerability (THIS IS A WIDESPREAD THREAT RIGHT NOW).\n* Enabled the Brute-Force protection option directly from the Settings page.\n* Fixed window position to auto-adjust on small screens.\n\n= 4.14.47 =\n* Major upgrade to the protection for wp-login.php Brute-Force attempts.\n* Fixes a bug in setting the permissions for read-only files so that they could still be cleaned.\n* Fixes a minor bug with pass-by-reference which raises a fatal error in PHP v5.4.\n* Enhanced the Examine File window with better styles and more info.\n* Changed form submission of encrypted file lists to array values instead of keys.\n* Fixes other minor bugs.\n* Made the Examine File window sizable.\n* Fixed a few small bugs and removed some old code.\n* Added a link to my new twitter account.\n* Re-purposed Quick Scan to just scan the most affected areas.\n* Set the registration form to display by defaulted in the definition update section.\n* Fixed a few small bugs in advanced features and directory depth determination.\n* Fixed a session bug to display the last directory scanned.\n* Fixed a few small cosmetic bugs for WP 3.8.\n* Added Spanish translation, thanks to Jelena Kovacevic and Andrew Kurtis at webhostinghub.com.\n* Updated string in the code and added a .pot file to be ready for translation into other languages.\n* Added \"Select All\" checkbox to Quarantine and a new button to delete items from the Quarantine.\n* Added a trace.php file for advanced session tracking.\n* Fixed undefined index bug with menu_group item in settings array.\n* Added support for multisite network admin menu and the ability to restrict admin access.\n* Fixed a session bug in the progress bar related to the last release.\n* Fixed a session bug that conflicted with jigoshop. (Thanks dragonflyfla)\n* Fixed a few bug in the Whitelist definition feature.\n\n= 3.07.06 =\n* Added SSL support for definition updates and registration form.\n* Upgraded the Whitelist feature so the it could not contain duplicates.\n* Downgraded the WP-Login threat and changed it to an opt-in fix.\n* Fixed a bug in the Add to Whitelist feature so the you do not need to update the definitions after whitelisting a file.\n* Added ability to whitelist files.\n* Fixed a major bug in yesterdays release broke the login page on some sites.\n* Added a patch for the wp-login.php brute force attack that has been going around.\n* Created a process to restore files from the Quarantine.\n* Fixed a few other small bugs including path issues on Winblows server.\n\n= 1.3.02.15 =\n* Improved security on the Quarantine directory to fix the 500 error on some servers.\n* Fixed count of Quarantined items.\n* Added htaccess security to the Uploads directory.\n* Linked the Quarantined items to the File Examiner.\n* Added a scan category for Backdoor Scripts.\n* Consolidated the Definition Types and added a Whitelist category.\n* Completely redesigned the Definition Updates to handle incremental updates.\n* Added \"View Quarantine\" to the menu.\n* Enhanced Output Buffer to work with compression enabled (like ob_gzhandler).\n* Moved the quarantine to the uploads directory to protect against blanket inclusion.\n* Fixed Output Buffer issue for when ob_start has already been called.\n* Enhanced the Automatic Fix process to handle bad directory permissions.\n* Added more detailed error messages for different types of file errors.\n* Improved overall error handling.\n* Minor UI enhancements and a few bug fixes.\n* Completely revamped the scan engine to handle large file systems with better error handling.\n* Enhanced the results for the Automatic Fix process.\n* Fixed a few other small bugs.\n* Enhanced the iFrame for the File Viewer and Automatic Fix process.\n* Improved error handling during the scan.\n* Moved the File Viewer and Automatic Fix process into an iFrame to decrease scan time and memory usage.\n* Enhanced the Automatic Fix process for better success with read-only files.\n* Improved code cleanup process and general efficiency of the scan.\n* Encoded definition update for better compatibility with some servers that have post limitation.\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability.\n* Changed registration to allow for multiple sites/keys to be registered under one user/email.\n* Changed auto-update path to update threat level array for all new definition updates.\n* Updated timthumb replacement patch to version 2.8.10 per WordPress.org plugins requirement.\n* Fixed option to exclude directories so that the scan would not get stuck if omitted.\n* Added support for winblows servers using BACKSLASH directory structures.\n* Changed definition updates to write to the DB instead of a file.\n\n= 1.2.03.23 =\n* First versions available for WordPress (code removed, no longer compatible).\n\n== Upgrade Notice ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\nFixed the Uncaught Value Error in mb_regex_encoding, and other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\nFixed some HTML formatting issues and a JavaScript error in the scan engine.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\nFixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\nAdded more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables and checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\nAdded late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team and fixed a PHP warning about is_dir.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\nCode review and cleanup, added more sanitization and fixed an error when attempting to unserialize an array.\n\n= 4.21.86 =\nImproved the removal of database injections when values are serialized, and fixed a vulnerability in using unserialize with Class Objects, as well as some other PHP warnings about undefined indexes.\n\n= 4.21.85 =\nPrevented infinite looping on recursive sub-directories and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.4.\n\n= 4.21.84 =\nRemoved the no_error_reporting debug option and checked compatibility with WordPress 6.0.2 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.83 =\nFixed XSS vulnerability, plus other minor improvements and compatibility with WordPress 6.0.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.74 =\nUpdated code with various minor improvements to efficiency and compatibility with WordPress 6.0.\n\n= 4.20.96 =\nFixed XSS vulnerability by removing unsanitized QUERY_STRING, cleaned up Quarantine code, and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.2.\n\n= 4.20.95 =\nAdded more sanitization and validation to all user data entered for better security and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.\n\n= 4.20.94 =\nFixed an XSS vulnerability and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.8.3.\n\n= 4.20.93 =\nFixed undefined variable warning and updated code for compatibility with PHP version 8.0.\n\n= 4.20.92 =\nAdded German translation, improved firewall compatibility with Apache, fixed session check in Site Health for REST API compatibility, and checked code compatibility with WordPress 5.8.1 and ClassicPress 1.3.1.\n\n= 4.20.72 =\nUpdated registration form, fixed session check, and removed older code from WordPress Repository.\n\n= 4.20.59 =\nVarious minor bug fixes, added Core Files Definitions for ClassicPress, and tweaked code for better compatibility with WordPress 5.7.2 and ClassicPress 1.2.0.\n\n= 4.19.69 =\nFixed a JavaScript error caused by a new French translation and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.4.1.\n\n= 4.19.68 =\nUpdated some external links and tweaked code for better compatibility with PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4.\n\n= 4.19.50 =\nAdded even more error handling to the DB Scan for low memory_limit, modified the Directory Scan Depth to accept 0 as way to skip the Directory Scan, and added some Help tips to some of the options on the Settings page.\n\n= 4.19.44 =\nUpdated links, added more error handling to the DB Scan, various performance improvements, fixed path to work on Windows servers and a few minor bugs causing PHP Notices, and weaked code for compatibility with WP 5.3 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.76 =\nCleaned up the Nonce Token code and Quarantine page, fixed recovery link, and added debugging for login errors plus WP head and footer Hooks.\n\n= 4.18.74 =\nFixed a bug in the Nonce Token Errors that was created by changes in the last release.\n\n= 4.18.71 =\nAdded wp_options table to the db_scan and fixed a few minor bugs in the quarantine view, and changed some wording and checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.69 =\nAdded a Warning message about the vulnerability in the yuzo-related-post plugin,  updated the Quarantine interface with a re-scan / re-clean feature, fixed a bug in the scan depth array that would produce PHP Notices, changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues, and checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.63 =\nFixed a major bug in the Firewall updates that could cause a False Positive lockout.\n\n= 4.18.62 =\nFixed a few minor bugs and updated code for compatibility with WP 5.1.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.52 =\nAdded a whole new DB Scan category, updated Firewall landing page, removed some old code that was no longer needed, clear cache files before running the Complete Scan,, and updated code for compatibility with WP 5.0.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.17.69 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.8, fixed PHP Notice and escaped single-quotes in translated strings.\n\n= 4.17.68 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.7, removed dashicon from Settings link and the broken vote WORKS link, and reordered priorety on fixing Known Threats.\n\n= 4.17.58 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.4, fixed dashicons sizing in css, add ability to update registration email from within the plugin settings, and cleaned up expired nonce tokens left behind from an older version.\n\n= 4.17.57 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.3, fixed registration form and alternate domain for definition updates to work on HTTPS, and fixed the wording on the Title Check error message.\n\n= 4.17.44 =\nAdded Title check to make sure it does say you were hacked, updated code for compatibility with WP 4.8.3 and fixed Undefined variable error in Quarantine and an XSS vulnerability in nonce error output.\n\n= 4.17.29 =\nChanged the definition update URL to only use SSL when required, and updated PayPal form for better domestic IPN compatibility.\n\n= 4.17.28 =\nAdded the Turkish translation thanks to Umut Can Alparslan, improved the auto update feature, and fixed the admin username change feature on multisite installs (Plus many other improvement from v4.16.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 4.16.17 =\nRemoved Menu Item Placement Options that were deprecated in WP 4.5, Added firewall options for better compatibility with WP Firewall 2, and fixed an XSS vulnerability in the debug output of the nonce token (Plus many other improvement from v4.15.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 4.15.16 =\nCreated automatic definition updates that include WordPress Core files, more improvements to the Brute-Force protection patch (Plus many other improvement from v4.14.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 4.14.47 =\nMajor upgrade to the protection for Brute-Force attempts, and a bug fix for resetting the permissions of read-only files (Plus many other improvement from v3.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 3.07.06 =\nAdded SSL support for definition updates and upgraded the Whitelist feature (Plus many other improvement from v1.3.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 1.3.02.15 =\nImproved security on the Quarantine directory to fix the 500 error on some servers (Plus many other improvement from v1.2.X: see Changelog for details).\n\n= 1.2.03.23 =\nFirst versions available for WordPress (code removed, no longer compatible).\n\";s:3:\"raw\";s:34308:\"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nServer: nginx\r\nDate: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:43:01 GMT\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\nConnection: close\r\nVary: Accept-Encoding\r\nLast-Modified: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:04:07 GMT\r\nETag: W/\"2877919//gotmls/trunk/readme.txt\"\r\nCache-Control: max-age=604800\r\nContent-Encoding: br\r\n\r\n=== Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall ===\nPlugin URI: https://gotmls.net/\nAuthor: Eli Scheetz\nAuthor URI: http://wordpress.ieonly.com/category/my-plugins/anti-malware/\nContributors: gotmls, scheeeli\nDonate link: https://gotmls.net/donate/\nTags: security, firewall, anti-malware, scanner, automatic, repair, remove, malware, virus, threat, hacked, malicious, infection, timthumb, exploit, block, brute-force, wp-login, patch, antimalware, revslider, Revolution Slider\nVersion: 4.21.92\nStable tag: 4.21.92\nRequires at least: 3.3\nTested up to: 6.1.1\n\nThis Anti-Malware scanner searches for Malware, Viruses, and other security threats and vulnerabilities on your server and it helps you fix them.\n\n== Description ==\n\n**Features:**\n\n* Download Definition Updates to protect against new threats.\n* Run a Complete Scan to automatically remove known security threats, backdoor scripts, and database injections.\n* Firewall block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting Revolution Slider and other plugins with known vulnerabilites.\n* Upgrade vulnerable versions of timthumb scripts.\n\n**Premium Features:**\n\n* Patch your wp-login and XMLRPC to block Brute-Force and DDoS attacks.\n* Check the integrity of your WordPress Core files.\n* Automatically download new Definition Updates when running a Complete Scan.\n\nRegister this plugin at [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) and get access to new definitions of \"Known Threats\" and added features like Automatic Removal, plus patches for specific security vulnerabilities like old versions of timthumb. Updated definition files can be downloaded automatically within the admin once your Key is registered. Otherwise, this plugin just scans for \"Potential Threats\" and leaves it up to you to identify and remove the malicious ones.\n\nNOTICE: This plugin make call to GOTMLS.NET to check for updates not unlike what WordPress does when checking your plugins and themes for new versions. Staying up-to-date is an essential part of any security plugin and this plugin can let you know when there are new plugin and definition update available. If you\'re allergic to \"phone home\" scripts then don\'t use this plugin (or WordPress at all for that matter).\n\n**Special thanks to:**\n\n* Clarus Dignus for design suggestions and graphic design work on the banner image.\n* Jelena Kovacevic and Andrew Kurtis of webhostinghub.com for providing the Spanish translation.\n* Marcelo Guernieri for the Brazilian Portuguese translation.\n* Umut Can Alparslan for the Turkish translation.\n* [Micha Cassola](https://profiles.wordpress.org/michacassola/) for the German translation.\n* [Robi Erwin Setiawan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/situstarget/) for the Indonesian translation.\n\n== Installation ==\n\n1. Download and unzip the plugin into your WordPress plugins directory (usually `/wp-content/plugins/`).\n1. Activate the plugin through the \'Plugins\' menu in your WordPress Admin.\n1. Register on gotmls.net and download the newest definition updates to scan for Known Threats.\n\n== Frequently Asked Questions ==\n\n= Why should I register? =\n\nIf you register on [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) you will have access to download definitions of New Threats and added features like automatic removal of \"Known Threats\" and patches for specific security issues like old versions of timthumb and brute-force attacks on wp-login.php. Otherwise, this plugin only scans for \"Potential Threats\" on your site, it would then be up to you to identify the good from the bad and remove them accordingly. \n\n= How do I patch the Revolution Slider vulnerability? =\n\nEasy, if you have installed and activated my this Anti-Malware plugin on your site then it will automatically block attempts to exploit the Revolution Slider vulnerability.\n\n= How do I patch the wp-login vulnerability? =\n\nThe WordPress Login page is susceptible to a brute-force attack (just like any other login page). These types of attacks are becoming more prevalent these days and can sometimes cause your server to become slow or unresponsive, even if the attacks do not succeed in gaining access to your site. This plugin can apply a patch that will block access to the WordPress Login page whenever this type of attack is detected. Just click the Install Patch button under Brute-force Protection on the Anti-Malware Setting page. For more information on this subject [read my blog](http://gotmls.net/tag/wp-login-php/).\n\n= Why can\'t I automatically remove the \"Potential Threats\" in yellow? =\n\nMany of these files may use eval and other powerful PHP function for perfectly legitimate reasons and removing that code from the files would likely cripple or even break your site so I have only enabled the Auto remove feature for \"Know Threats\".\n\n= How do I know if any of the \"Potential Threats\" are dangerous? =\n\nClick on the linked filename to examine it, then click each numbered link above the file content box to highlight the suspicious code. If you cannot tell whether or not the code is malicious just leave it alone or ask someone else to look at it for you. If you find that it is malicious please send me a copy of the file so that I can add it to my definition update as a \"Know Threat\", then it can be automatically removed.\n\n= What if the scan gets stuck part way through? =\n\nFirst just leave it for a while. If there are a lot of files on your server it could take quite a while and could sometimes appear to not be moving along at all even if it really is working. If it still seems stuck after a while then try running the scan again, be sure you try both the Complete Scan and the Quick scan.\n\n= How did I get hacked in the first place? =\n\nFirst, don\'t take the attack personally. Lots of hackers routinely run automated script that crawl the internet looking for easy targets. Your site probably got hacked because you are unknowingly an easy target. This might be because you are running an older version of WordPress or have installed a Plugin or Theme with a backdoor or known security vulnerability. However, the most common type of infection I see is cross-contamination. This can happen when your site is on a shared server with other exploitable sites that got infected. In most shared hosting environments it\'s possible for hackers to use an one infected site to infect other sites on the same server, sometimes even if the sites are on different accounts.\n\n= What can I do to prevent it from happening again? =\n\nThere is no sure way to protect your site from every kind of hack attempt. That said, don\'t be an easy target. Some basic steps should include: hardening your password, keeping all your sites up-to-date, and run regular scans with Anti-Malware software like [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/)\n\n= Why does sucuri.net or the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic page still say my site is infected after I have removed the malicious code? =\n\nsucuri.net caches their scan results and will not refresh the scan until you click the small link near the bottom of the page that says \"Force a Re-scan\" to clear the cache. Google also caches your infected pages and usually takes some time before crawling your site again, but you can speed up that process by Requesting a Review in the Malware or Security section of [Google Webmaster Tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/). It is a good idea to have a Webmaster Tools account for your site anyway as it can provide lots of other helpful information about your site.\n\n== Screenshots ==\n\n1. The menu showing Anti-Malware options.\n2. The Scan Setting page in the admin.\n3. An example scan that found some threats.\n4. The results window when \"Automatic Repair\" fixes threats.\n5. The Quarantine showing threats that have been fix already.\n\n== Changelog ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\n* Fixed the Uncaught Value Error when scanning files that use Windows-1252 encoding which is unsupported by the PHP function mb_regex_encoding.\n* Fixed other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\n* Fixed some HTML formatting issues.\n* Fixed a JavaScript error in the scan engine that prevented second attempts to scan directories that failed on the first try.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\n* Fixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\n* Added more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables.\n* Checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\n* Added late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team.\n* Fixed a PHP warning about is_dir when it attempts check the existance of a directory that was scanned in the past but is now outside the allowable scan path.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\n* Code review and cleanup, added more sanitization.\n* Fixed an error when attempting to unserialize an array.\n\n= 4.21.86 =\n* Improved the removal of database injections when values are serialized.\n* Fixed a vulnerability in using unserialize with Class Objects.\n* Fixed PHP warnings about undefined indexes.\n\n= 4.21.85 =\n* Prevented infinite looping on recursive sub-directories.\n* Changed some default values.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.4.\n\n= 4.21.84 =\n* Removed the no_error_reporting option used for debugging when server errors are breaking the site.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.0.2 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.83 =\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability on debug URLs introduced in the last release, thanks Erwan Le Rousseau.\n* Updated code with other various minor improvements bug fixed.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.0.1 and ClassicPress 1.4.2.\n\n= 4.21.74 =\n* Updated code with various minor improvements to efficiency and compatibility.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 6.0.\n\n= 4.20.96 =\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability by removing unsanitized QUERY_STRING.\n* Cleaned up Quarantine code, removing legacy functions and adding more detailed info.\n* Fixed undefined variable notice and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.2.\n\n= 4.20.95 =\n* Added more sanitization and validation to all user data entered for better security.\n* checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.9.\n\n= 4.20.94 =\n* Fixed an XSS vulnerability and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.8.3.\n\n= 4.20.93 =\n* Fixed undefined variable warning.\n* Updated code for compatibility with PHP version 8.0.\n\n= 4.20.92 =\n* Added German translation thanks to Micha Cassola.\n* Improved the Apache software version checker for better firewall compatibility.\n* Fixed session compatibility that was conflicting with the REST API check in Site Health.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.8.1 and ClassicPress 1.3.1.\n\n= 4.20.72 =\n* Updated registration form to be more compatible with newer iframe restrictions.\n* Fixed session check on the Brute-Force patch to no longer need mod_rewrite.\n* Removed older code from WordPress Repository.\n\n= 4.20.59 =\n* Various minor bug fixes.\n* Added Core Files Definitions for ClassicPress.\n* Tweaked code for better compatibility with WordPress 5.7.2 and ClassicPress 1.2.0.\n\n= 4.19.69 =\n* Fixed a JavaScript error caused by a new French translation.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.4.1.\n\n= 4.19.68 =\n* Updated some external links.\n* Tweaked code for better compatibility with PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4.\n\n= 4.19.50 =\n* Added even more error handling to the DB Scan for servers with the PHP memory_limit set too low.\n* Modified the Directory Scan Depth to accept 0 as a value to indicate skipping the Directory Scan (use this to focus on the DB Scan).\n* Added some Help tips to some of the options on the Settings page.\n\n= 4.19.44 =\n* Updated links to use HTTPS by default and fixed some old URLs.\n* Various performance improvements.\n* Added more error handling to the DB Scan.\n* Fixed a few minor bugs causing PHP Notices.\n* Fixed a path search to work on Windows servers.\n* Tweaked code for compatibility with WP 5.3 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.76 =\n* Cleaned up the Nonce Token creation and storage functions.\n* Cleaned up View Quarantine page and fixed recovery link.\n* Added debugging for login errors WP head and footer Hooks.\n\n= 4.18.74 =\n* Fixed a bug in the Nonce Token Errors that was created by changes in the last release.\n\n= 4.18.71 =\n* Added wp_options table to the db_scan.\n* Fixed a few minor bugs in the db scan quarantine view.\n* Changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.69 =\n* Added a Warning message about the vulnerability in the yuzo-related-post plugin.\n* Updated the Quarantine interface and added a re-scan / re-clean feature.\n* Fixed a bug in the scan depth array that would produce PHP Notices in the error_log files under certain conditions.\n* Changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues.\n* Removed some outdated JavaScript that is no longer needed.\n* Checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.63 =\n* Fixed a major bug in the Firewall updates that could cause a False Positive lockout.\n\n= 4.18.62 =\n* Fixed a bug in the Firewall that prevented some iPad devices from logging in.\n* Fixed an encoding bug that prevented the Examine File window from dispaying some file formats.\n* Restored the File Details window in the Examine File window.\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 5.1.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.52 =\n* Added a whole new DB Scan category that looks for links and scripts injected directly into the database content and removes them.\n* Updated Firewall landing page for HTTPS compatibility.\n* Removed some old code that was no longer needed.\n* Added a feature to clear cache files before running the Complete Scan, this will speed up the scan and prevent malware from being saved on your cached paged.\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 5.0.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.17.69 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.8 (latest release).\n* Fixed PHP Notice for the unknown offset of SERVER_parts.\n* Escaped single-quotes in translated strings for use within JavaScript.\n\n= 4.17.68 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.7 (latest release).\n* Removed wrong size dashicon from Settings link in plugin list.\n* Removed the broken link to vote WORKS on wordpress.org.\n* Reordered priorety on fixing Known Threats to be more efficient.\n\n= 4.17.58 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.4 (latest release).\n* Fixed dashicons sizing in css.\n* Add ability to update registration email from within the plugin settings.\n* Cleaned up expired nonce tokens left behind from an older version.\n\n= 4.17.57 =\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.3 (latest release).\n* Fixed registration form and alternate domain for definition updates to work on HTTPS.\n* Fixed the wording on the Title check error message.\n\n= 4.17.44 =\n* Added Title check to make sure it does say you were hacked.\n* Updated code for compatibility with WP 4.8.3 (latest release).\n* Fixed Undefined variable error in Quarantine.\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability in nonce error output.\n\n= 4.17.29 =\n* Changed the definition update URL to only use SSL when required.\n* Updated PayPal form for better domestic IPN compatibility.\n\n= 4.17.28 =\n* Added the Turkish translation thanks to Umut Can Alparslan.\n* Improved the auto update so that old definitions could be phased out and new threat types would be selected by default.\n* Fixed the admin username change feature on multisite installs.\n* Fixed the details window so that it scrolls to the highlighted code.\n* Set defaults to disable the Potential Threat scan if other threats definitions are enabled.\n* Encoded definitions array for DB storage.\n* Fixed syntax error in the XMLRPC patch for newer versions of Apache.\n* Added fall-back to manual updates if the Automatic update feature fails.\n* Fixed PHP Notices about undefined variable added in last Version release.\n* Improved Apache version detection.\n* Changed Automatic update feature to automatically download all definitions and firewall updates.\n* Added PHP and Apache version detections and changed the XMLRPC patch to work with Apache 2.4 directives.\n* Removed the onbeforeunload function because Norton detected it as a False Positive.\n* Removed code that was deprecated in PHP Version 7.\n* Fixed PHP Notice about an array to string conversion with some rare global variable conditions.\n* Added more firewall options.\n* Moved Scan Log from the Quarantine page to the main Setings page.\n* Fixed PHP Warning about an invalid argument in foreach and some other bugs too.\n* Fixed \"What to look for\" Options so that changes are saved.\n* Changed get_currentuserinfo to wp_get_current_user because the get_currentuserinfo function was deprecated in WP 4.5\n\n= 4.16.17 =\n* Removed Menu Item Placement Options because the add_object_page function was deprecated in WP 4.5.\n* Added firewall options for better compatibility with WP Firewall 2.\n* Fixed an XSS vulnerability in the debug output of the nonce token.\n* Moved the Firewall Options to it\'s own page linked to from the admin menu.\n* Moved the Quick Scan from the admin menu to the top of the Scan Settings page.\n* Fixed PHP Warning about in_array function expecting parameter 2 to be an array, found by Georgey B.\n* Made a few minor cosmetic changes and fixed a few other small bugs in the interface.\n* Fixed the Nonce Token error caused by W3 Total Cache breaking the set_transient function in WordPress.\n* Added the Brazilian Portuguese language files, thanks to Marcelo Guernieri for the translation.\n* Fixed the admin menu and also some links that did not work on Windows server.\n* Added Core Files to the Quick Scan list on the admin menu.\n* Added a nonce token to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery by admins who are logged-in from another site.\n* Hardened against XSS vulnerability triggered by the file names being scanned (thanks to Mahadev Subedi).\n* Improved brute-force patch compatibility with alternate wp-config.php location.\n* Had to remove the encoding of the Default Definitions to meet the WordPress Plugin Guidelines.\n* Improved the JavaScript in the new Brute-Force login patch so that it works with caching enabled on the login page.\n* Improved the Brute-Force login patch with custom fields and JavaScript. \n* Added a Save button to that Scan Settings page.\n* Fixed a bug in the XMLRPC Patch \"Unblock\" feature.\n* Added a link to purge the deleted Quarantine items from the database.\n* Added firewall option to Block all XMLRPC calls.\n* Fixed a few cosmetic bugs in the quarantine and firewall options.\n* Fixed a bugs in the Quarantine that was memory_limit errors if there number of files in the was too high.\n* Added the highlight malicious code feature back to the Quarantine file viewer.\n* Added the ability to change the admin username if the current username is \"admin\".\n* Improved the code in the Brute-Force Protection patch.\n* Fixed a few bugs in the Core Files Check that was preventing it from fixing some unusual file modifications.\n* Fixed a major bug that made multisite scan extremely slow and sometimes error out.\n* Moved all ajax call out of the init function and into their own functions for better handling time.\n* Moved the quarantine files into the database and deleted the old directory in uploads.\n* Fixed some minor formatting issues in the HTML output on the settings page.\n* Added a warning message if base64_decode has been disabled.\n* Hardened against injected HTML content by encoding the tags with variables.\n* Fixed debug option to exclude individual definitions.\n* Hardened admin_init with current_user_can and realpath on the quarantine file deletion (thanks to J.D. Grimes).\n* Fixed another XSS vulnerabilities in the admin (thanks to James H.)\n* Hardened against XSS vulnerabilities in the admin (thanks to Tim Coen).\n* Added feature to restore default settings for Exclude Extensions.\n* Changed the encoding on the index.php file in the Quarantine to make it more human-readable.\n* Fixed a few small bugs that were throwing PHP Notices in some configurations and added more info to some error messages.\n* Extended execution_time during the Fix process to increase the number of files that could be fixed at a time.\n* Added a Quarantine log to the database.\n* Fixed a couple of minor bugs that would throw PHP notices.\n\n= 4.15.16 =\n* Created an automatic update feature that downloads any new definition updates before starting the scan.\n* Added WordPress Core files to the new definitions update process and included a scan option to check the integrity of the Core files.\n* Automatically whitelisted the unmodified WordPress Core files.\n* Made more improvements to the Brute-Force protection patch and other minor cosmetic changes to the interface.\n* Protected the HTML in my plugin from filter injections and fixed a few other minor bugs.\n* Fixed a problem with deleting files from the Quarantine folder.\n* Added a descriptive reason to the error displayed if the fix was unsuccessful.\n* Added link to restore the default location of the Examine Results window.\n* Improved the encoding of definition updates so that they would not be blocked by poorly written firewall rules.\n* Suppressed the \"Please make a donation\" nag if the fix was unsuccessful, to avoid confusion over premium services.\n* Removed debug alert from initial session check.\n* Improved rewrite compatibility of session check for the Brute-Force Protection Installation.\n* Improved session check for the option to Install Brute-Force Protection and added an error message on failure.\n* Improved support for Multisite by only allowing Network Admins access to the Anti-Malware menu.\n* Added link to view a simple scan history on the Quarantine page.\n* Updated firewall to better protect agains new variations of the RevSlider Exploit.\n* Improved check for session support before giving the option to Install Brute-Force patch.\n* Added option to skip scanning the Quarantined files.\n* Updated Brute-Force patch to fix the problem of being included more that once.\n* Fixed a few minor bugs (better window positioning and css, cleaner results page, updated new help tab, etc.).\n* Made sure that the plugin does not check my servers for updates unless you have registered (this opt-in requirement is part of the WordPress Repository Guidelines).\n* Added exception for the social.png files to the skip files by extension list.\n* Fixed removal of Known Threats from files in the Quarantine directory.\n* Block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting the Slider Revolution Vulnerability (THIS IS A WIDESPREAD THREAT RIGHT NOW).\n* Enabled the Brute-Force protection option directly from the Settings page.\n* Fixed window position to auto-adjust on small screens.\n\n= 4.14.47 =\n* Major upgrade to the protection for wp-login.php Brute-Force attempts.\n* Fixes a bug in setting the permissions for read-only files so that they could still be cleaned.\n* Fixes a minor bug with pass-by-reference which raises a fatal error in PHP v5.4.\n* Enhanced the Examine File window with better styles and more info.\n* Changed form submission of encrypted file lists to array values instead of keys.\n* Fixes other minor bugs.\n* Made the Examine File window sizable.\n* Fixed a few small bugs and removed some old code.\n* Added a link to my new twitter account.\n* Re-purposed Quick Scan to just scan the most affected areas.\n* Set the registration form to display by defaulted in the definition update section.\n* Fixed a few small bugs in advanced features and directory depth determination.\n* Fixed a session bug to display the last directory scanned.\n* Fixed a few small cosmetic bugs for WP 3.8.\n* Added Spanish translation, thanks to Jelena Kovacevic and Andrew Kurtis at webhostinghub.com.\n* Updated string in the code and added a .pot file to be ready for translation into other languages.\n* Added \"Select All\" checkbox to Quarantine and a new button to delete items from the Quarantine.\n* Added a trace.php file for advanced session tracking.\n* Fixed undefined index bug with menu_group item in settings array.\n* Added support for multisite network admin menu and the ability to restrict admin access.\n* Fixed a session bug in the progress bar related to the last release.\n* Fixed a session bug that conflicted with jigoshop. (Thanks dragonflyfla)\n* Fixed a few bug in the Whitelist definition feature.\n\n= 3.07.06 =\n* Added SSL support for definition updates and registration form.\n* Upgraded the Whitelist feature so the it could not contain duplicates.\n* Downgraded the WP-Login threat and changed it to an opt-in fix.\n* Fixed a bug in the Add to Whitelist feature so the you do not need to update the definitions after whitelisting a file.\n* Added ability to whitelist files.\n* Fixed a major bug in yesterdays release broke the login page on some sites.\n* Added a patch for the wp-login.php brute force attack that has been going around.\n* Created a process to restore files from the Quarantine.\n* Fixed a few other small bugs including path issues on Winblows server.\n\n= 1.3.02.15 =\n* Improved security on the Quarantine directory to fix the 500 error on some servers.\n* Fixed count of Quarantined items.\n* Added htaccess security to the Uploads directory.\n* Linked the Quarantined items to the File Examiner.\n* Added a scan category for Backdoor Scripts.\n* Consolidated the Definition Types and added a Whitelist category.\n* Completely redesigned the Definition Updates to handle incremental updates.\n* Added \"View Quarantine\" to the menu.\n* Enhanced Output Buffer to work with compression enabled (like ob_gzhandler).\n* Moved the quarantine to the uploads directory to protect against blanket inclusion.\n* Fixed Output Buffer issue for when ob_start has already been called.\n* Enhanced the Automatic Fix process to handle bad directory permissions.\n* Added more detailed error messages for different types of file errors.\n* Improved overall error handling.\n* Minor UI enhancements and a few bug fixes.\n* Completely revamped the scan engine to handle large file systems with better error handling.\n* Enhanced the results for the Automatic Fix process.\n* Fixed a few other small bugs.\n* Enhanced the iFrame for the File Viewer and Automatic Fix process.\n* Improved error handling during the scan.\n* Moved the File Viewer and Automatic Fix process into an iFrame to decrease scan time and memory usage.\n* Enhanced the Automatic Fix process for better success with read-only files.\n* Improved code cleanup process and general efficiency of the scan.\n* Encoded definition update for better compatibility with some servers that have post limitation.\n* Fixed XSS vulnerability.\n* Changed registration to allow for multiple sites/keys to be registered under one user/email.\n* Changed auto-update path to update threat level array for all new definition updates.\n* Updated timthumb replacement patch to version 2.8.10 per WordPress.org plugins requirement.\n* Fixed option to exclude directories so that the scan would not get stuck if omitted.\n* Added support for winblows servers using BACKSLASH directory structures.\n* Changed definition updates to write to the DB instead of a file.\n\n= 1.2.03.23 =\n* First versions available for WordPress (code removed, no longer compatible).\n\n== Upgrade Notice ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\nFixed the Uncaught Value Error in mb_regex_encoding, and other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\nFixed some HTML formatting issues and a JavaScript error in the scan engine.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\nFixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\nAdded more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables and checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\nAdded late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team and fixed a PHP warning about is_dir.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\nCode review and cleanup, added more sanitization and fixed an error when attempting to unserialize an array.\n\n= 4.21.86 =\nImproved the removal of database injections when values are serialized, and fixed a vulnerability in using unserialize with Class Objects, as well as some other PHP warnings about undefined indexes.\n\n= 4.21.85 =\nPrevented infinite looping on 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version 8.0.\n\n= 4.20.92 =\nAdded German translation, improved firewall compatibility with Apache, fixed session check in Site Health for REST API compatibility, and checked code compatibility with WordPress 5.8.1 and ClassicPress 1.3.1.\n\n= 4.20.72 =\nUpdated registration form, fixed session check, and removed older code from WordPress Repository.\n\n= 4.20.59 =\nVarious minor bug fixes, added Core Files Definitions for ClassicPress, and tweaked code for better compatibility with WordPress 5.7.2 and ClassicPress 1.2.0.\n\n= 4.19.69 =\nFixed a JavaScript error caused by a new French translation and checked code for compatibility with WordPress 5.4.1.\n\n= 4.19.68 =\nUpdated some external links and tweaked code for better compatibility with PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4.\n\n= 4.19.50 =\nAdded even more error handling to the DB Scan for low memory_limit, modified the Directory Scan Depth to accept 0 as way to skip the Directory Scan, and added some Help tips to some of the options on the Settings page.\n\n= 4.19.44 =\nUpdated links, added more error handling to the DB Scan, various performance improvements, fixed path to work on Windows servers and a few minor bugs causing PHP Notices, and weaked code for compatibility with WP 5.3 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.76 =\nCleaned up the Nonce Token code and Quarantine page, fixed recovery link, and added debugging for login errors plus WP head and footer Hooks.\n\n= 4.18.74 =\nFixed a bug in the Nonce Token Errors that was created by changes in the last release.\n\n= 4.18.71 =\nAdded wp_options table to the db_scan and fixed a few minor bugs in the quarantine view, and changed some wording and checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.69 =\nAdded a Warning message about the vulnerability in the yuzo-related-post plugin,  updated the Quarantine interface with a re-scan / re-clean feature, fixed a bug in the scan depth array that would produce PHP Notices, changed some wording and other minor fomatting issues, and checked code for compatibility with WP 5.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.63 =\nFixed a major bug in the Firewall updates that could cause a False Positive lockout.\n\n= 4.18.62 =\nFixed a few minor bugs and updated code for compatibility with WP 5.1.1 (latest release).\n\n= 4.18.52 =\nAdded a whole new DB Scan category, updated Firewall landing page, removed some old code that was no longer needed, clear cache files before running the Complete Scan,, and updated code for compatibility with WP 5.0.2 (latest release).\n\n= 4.17.69 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.8, fixed PHP Notice and escaped single-quotes in translated strings.\n\n= 4.17.68 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.7, removed dashicon from Settings link and the broken vote WORKS link, and reordered priorety on fixing Known Threats.\n\n= 4.17.58 =\nUpdated code for compatibility with WP 4.9.4, fixed dashicons sizing in css, add ability to update registration email from within the 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malicious, infection, timthumb, exploit, block, brute-force, wp-login, patch, antimalware, revslider, Revolution Slider\nVersion: 4.21.92\nStable tag: 4.21.92\nRequires at least: 3.3\nTested up to: 6.1.1\n\nThis Anti-Malware scanner searches for Malware, Viruses, and other security threats and vulnerabilities on your server and it helps you fix them.\n\n== Description ==\n\n**Features:**\n\n* Download Definition Updates to protect against new threats.\n* Run a Complete Scan to automatically remove known security threats, backdoor scripts, and database injections.\n* Firewall block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting Revolution Slider and other plugins with known vulnerabilites.\n* Upgrade vulnerable versions of timthumb scripts.\n\n**Premium Features:**\n\n* Patch your wp-login and XMLRPC to block Brute-Force and DDoS attacks.\n* Check the integrity of your WordPress Core files.\n* Automatically download new Definition Updates when running a Complete Scan.\n\nRegister this plugin at [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) and get access to new definitions of \"Known Threats\" and added features like Automatic Removal, plus patches for specific security vulnerabilities like old versions of timthumb. Updated definition files can be downloaded automatically within the admin once your Key is registered. Otherwise, this plugin just scans for \"Potential Threats\" and leaves it up to you to identify and remove the malicious ones.\n\nNOTICE: This plugin make call to GOTMLS.NET to check for updates not unlike what WordPress does when checking your plugins and themes for new versions. Staying up-to-date is an essential part of any security plugin and this plugin can let you know when there are new plugin and definition update available. If you\'re allergic to \"phone home\" scripts then don\'t use this plugin (or WordPress at all for that matter).\n\n**Special thanks to:**\n\n* Clarus Dignus for design suggestions and graphic design work on the banner image.\n* Jelena Kovacevic and Andrew Kurtis of webhostinghub.com for providing the Spanish translation.\n* Marcelo Guernieri for the Brazilian Portuguese translation.\n* Umut Can Alparslan for the Turkish translation.\n* [Micha Cassola](https://profiles.wordpress.org/michacassola/) for the German translation.\n* [Robi Erwin Setiawan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/situstarget/) for the Indonesian translation.\n\n== Installation ==\n\n1. Download and unzip the plugin into your WordPress plugins directory (usually `/wp-content/plugins/`).\n1. Activate the plugin through the \'Plugins\' menu in your WordPress Admin.\n1. Register on gotmls.net and download the newest definition updates to scan for Known Threats.\n\n== Frequently Asked Questions ==\n\n= Why should I register? =\n\nIf you register on [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/) you will have access to download definitions of New Threats and added features like automatic removal of \"Known Threats\" and patches for specific security issues like old versions of timthumb and brute-force attacks on wp-login.php. Otherwise, this plugin only scans for \"Potential Threats\" on your site, it would then be up to you to identify the good from the bad and remove them accordingly. \n\n= How do I patch the Revolution Slider vulnerability? =\n\nEasy, if you have installed and activated my this Anti-Malware plugin on your site then it will automatically block attempts to exploit the Revolution Slider vulnerability.\n\n= How do I patch the wp-login vulnerability? =\n\nThe WordPress Login page is susceptible to a brute-force attack (just like any other login page). These types of attacks are becoming more prevalent these days and can sometimes cause your server to become slow or unresponsive, even if the attacks do not succeed in gaining access to your site. This plugin can apply a patch that will block access to the WordPress Login page whenever this type of attack is detected. Just click the Install Patch button under Brute-force Protection on the Anti-Malware Setting page. For more information on this subject [read my blog](http://gotmls.net/tag/wp-login-php/).\n\n= Why can\'t I automatically remove the \"Potential Threats\" in yellow? =\n\nMany of these files may use eval and other powerful PHP function for perfectly legitimate reasons and removing that code from the files would likely cripple or even break your site so I have only enabled the Auto remove feature for \"Know Threats\".\n\n= How do I know if any of the \"Potential Threats\" are dangerous? =\n\nClick on the linked filename to examine it, then click each numbered link above the file content box to highlight the suspicious code. If you cannot tell whether or not the code is malicious just leave it alone or ask someone else to look at it for you. If you find that it is malicious please send me a copy of the file so that I can add it to my definition update as a \"Know Threat\", then it can be automatically removed.\n\n= What if the scan gets stuck part way through? =\n\nFirst just leave it for a while. If there are a lot of files on your server it could take quite a while and could sometimes appear to not be moving along at all even if it really is working. If it still seems stuck after a while then try running the scan again, be sure you try both the Complete Scan and the Quick scan.\n\n= How did I get hacked in the first place? =\n\nFirst, don\'t take the attack personally. Lots of hackers routinely run automated script that crawl the internet looking for easy targets. Your site probably got hacked because you are unknowingly an easy target. This might be because you are running an older version of WordPress or have installed a Plugin or Theme with a backdoor or known security vulnerability. However, the most common type of infection I see is cross-contamination. This can happen when your site is on a shared server with other exploitable sites that got infected. In most shared hosting environments it\'s possible for hackers to use an one infected site to infect other sites on the same server, sometimes even if the sites are on different accounts.\n\n= What can I do to prevent it from happening again? =\n\nThere is no sure way to protect your site from every kind of hack attempt. That said, don\'t be an easy target. Some basic steps should include: hardening your password, keeping all your sites up-to-date, and run regular scans with Anti-Malware software like [GOTMLS.NET](http://gotmls.net/)\n\n= Why does sucuri.net or the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic page still say my site is infected after I have removed the malicious code? =\n\nsucuri.net caches their scan results and will not refresh the scan until you click the small link near the bottom of the page that says \"Force a Re-scan\" to clear the cache. Google also caches your infected pages and usually takes some time before crawling your site again, but you can speed up that process by Requesting a Review in the Malware or Security section of [Google Webmaster Tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/). It is a good idea to have a Webmaster Tools account for your site anyway as it can provide lots of other helpful information about your site.\n\n== Screenshots ==\n\n1. The menu showing Anti-Malware options.\n2. The Scan Setting page in the admin.\n3. An example scan that found some threats.\n4. The results window when \"Automatic Repair\" fixes threats.\n5. The Quarantine showing threats that have been fix already.\n\n== Changelog ==\n\n= 4.21.92 =\n* Fixed the Uncaught Value Error when scanning files that use Windows-1252 encoding which is unsupported by the PHP function mb_regex_encoding.\n* Fixed other minor PHP Warnings about Undefined Indexes.\n\n= 4.21.91 =\n* Fixed some HTML formatting issues.\n* Fixed a JavaScript error in the scan engine that prevented second attempts to scan directories that failed on the first try.\n\n= 4.21.90 =\n* Fixed array compatibility with older versions of PHP.\n\n= 4.21.89 =\n* Added more late escapes and sanitizated all _SERVER variables.\n* Checked code for compatibility with ClassicPress 1.5.0.\n\n= 4.21.88 =\n* Added late escapes to variables that were already escaped as requested by Code review team.\n* Fixed a PHP warning about is_dir when it attempts check the existance of a directory that was scanned in the past but is now outside the allowable scan path.\n\n= 4.21.87 =\n* Code review and 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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Post Edits Draft. We&#8217;ve got another interview in our series on agency journeys. And I&#8217;m talking to a long time friend of mine, Rob Carnes, who has been very active in post. It&#8217;s been to a bunch of our meetups and I&#8217;m really excited to share his story today. So Rob, thanks for being on The Post podcast.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob Cairns (00:00:21) &#8211; My pleasure, Corey. Glad to be here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cory Miller (00:00:24) &#8211; Well, Rob, let&#8217;s dive in. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your agency today. Name and what you do. What kind of work primarily you do for your clients.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob Cairns (00:00:34) &#8211; Okay, So my name is Rob Cairns. I&#8217;m in the greater Toronto area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I should tell you, before I got into running an agency, I have a very tech heavy background which a lot of agency owners don&#8217;t have. 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How do we expect a computer system to?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Just as you&#8217;ve been talking, in my head, I&#8217;ve come up with this analogy of what I now think AI represents to me, and it represents essentially a very, very clever baby. There&#8217;s this child crawling around on the ground, I really do mean an infant who you fully forgive for knocking everything over and, tipping things over, damaging things and what have you. And yet this child can speak. So on the one hand, it can talk to you, but it&#8217;s just making utterly horrific mistakes because it&#8217;s a baby and you forgive it for that. So I don&#8217;t know how that sits, but that&#8217;s what&#8217;s it landed in my head.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:40] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> I wouldn&#8217;t say that AI is in its infancy anymore, but it&#8217;s probably in its toddler year, and maybe we need to watch out when it turns two.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So we&#8217;ve, done the sort of high level what is AI and all of that. That&#8217;s fascinating. But given that this is a WordPress event and it&#8217;s a WordPress podcast, let&#8217;s bind some of this stuff to the product itself. So WordPress largely is a content creation platform. You open it up, you make a post, you make a page, and typically into that goes text, sometimes images, sometimes video, possibly some other file formats. But let&#8217;s stick with the model of text and images. Why do we want, or how could we put AI into WordPress? What are the things that might be desirable in a WordPress site that AI could assist us with?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:21] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> I am totally going to be stealing some ideas from the AI content creation things that have happened this morning. I mean, there&#8217;s the obvious answer. I need to generate a thousand words for my editor by 4:00 PM today. Hey, ChatGPT, can you generate a thousand words on topic, blah?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think there are a lot of other places. I&#8217;d be super surprised if this hasn&#8217;t actually happened already. But, hey ChatGPT, write me an article that gets me to the top five Google ranking.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other obvious place for me as a software developer is using it to develop code. Humans are inventive. We&#8217;re going to see a lot of uses for AI that we never thought of. That&#8217;s not a bad thing at all. The more ways that we can use AI, I think the better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there are questions about the dangers, and I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s a question coming up later on, so I won&#8217;t dive into them now, but in the WordPress community, there&#8217;s content creation, but there&#8217;s also content moderation, where AI can probably help a lot. Analyze this piece of text to me and tell me is it spam? Does it contain harmful or hateful content?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s a case of you get what you give. There&#8217;s that story about Microsoft, I think it was Microsoft, and the chatbot that turned into a horrible Nazi racist within about two hours, having been trained on Twitter data. We need to be careful about that, certainly. I&#8217;m struggling to think of things beyond the obvious.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, I think probably it is going to be the obvious, isn&#8217;t it? Largely, people are popping in text and so having something which will allow you within the interface, whether you are in a page builder or whether you&#8217;re using the Gutenberg editor, the ability to interrupt that flow and say, okay, I&#8217;ve written enough now, ChatGPT, take over. Give me the next 300 words please. Or just read what I&#8217;ve written and can you just finish this? I&#8217;m almost there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:11] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Yeah, we are doing it already, even if it&#8217;s a sort of fairly primitive flow now where we write some stuff in our block editor, copy it up, pop it in ChatGPT or Bard or whatever, and say, hey, this is too formal. Or this is not formal enough. And it&#8217;s really great at that. Make this sound more businessy. And it understands the word businessy. The tool integration, it&#8217;s obvious in a lot of ways, but I think there are going to be a lot of non-obvious integrations. Like, oh wow, I wish I thought of that, and, you know, made my millions off that product. I mean, Jetpack is doing it already, you know. I am able to actively engage with ChatGPT whilst I&#8217;m editing my blog post. Fantastic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing that I&#8217;ve just thought of is oh, I run a WooCommerce site and I want to use, not necessarily ChatGPT, but some other AI system to analyze product sales and use that to promote, to change the listing on my product site, so that I can sell more product. That&#8217;s going to happen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:09] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, given that it&#8217;s incredibly good at consuming data.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:13] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Yeah, or even generating it on the fly. Generate 300 different descriptions of this product and randomize them. Put them out there and see which one sells best. We are doing that manually already. It&#8217;s AB testing at a larger scale.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. You can imagine a situation where the AI runs the split test, but it&#8217;s divided over 300 variations. And it decides for itself which is the winner.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:39] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> On a day-to-day basis.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> On an hourly basis. Implements the winner and then begins the whole process over and over again. I also wonder if in WordPress there is going to be AI to help lay out things. So at the moment we have the block editor. It enables you to create fairly complex layouts. We also have page builders, which allow us to do the same thing. So it alludes to what I was speaking about a moment ago.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking, so literally talking, as well as typing in. I would like a homepage. I would like that homepage to show off my plumbing business, and here&#8217;s my telephone number. 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Why must the AI choose WordPress to do this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe if we as a WordPress community invest in making WordPress AI integrated, then yeah, absolutely. Then hopefully we&#8217;re first to market with that in a way. And then it will generate stuff in WordPress. But there&#8217;s no, there&#8217;s no reason for it to maybe choose a Wix page as a better solution for you as a plumber, who doesn&#8217;t update things very often. You just want a static, you know.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chances are it&#8217;ll just say, here is some HTML it does the job for you, it&#8217;s pretty. I made some images for you as well. And, all you need to do is run the sequence of commands to, SSH it up to provider of your choice. Or I have selected this provider because I know how much they all charge and this is the cheapest. Or you&#8217;ve asked for the fastest, whatever.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:41] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, interesting, okay. So it&#8217;s not just bound inside the WordPress interface. Literally, put this in the cheapest place as of today. And then if it changes in the next 24 hours, just move it over there and change the DNS for me and.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:53] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> One day. For sure. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:54] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. So that very nicely ties into the harms.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:58] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> There it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> What we&#8217;ve just laid out is potentially quite harmful to a lot of the jobs that people do inside of WordPress. We&#8217;ve just described a workflow in which many of the things that we would charge clients for, which we could potentially get AI to do. Whether that&#8217;s a voice interface or a visual interface or a type, we&#8217;re typing in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that is concerning, if we are giving AI the option to put us out of work. And I know at the moment, this is the hot topic. I&#8217;m pretty sure that there&#8217;s some fairly large organizations who have begun this process already. They&#8217;ve taken some staff who are doing jobs which can be swapped out for AI, and they&#8217;ve shed those staff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And whilst we&#8217;re in the beginning phase of that, it seems like we can swallow so much of people getting laid off. The problem, potentially is, if we keep laying people off over and over and over again and we give everything over to the AI, we suddenly are in a position where, well, there&#8217;s no humans in this whole process anymore. Does any of that give you pause for thought?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:53] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Yeah, it certainly does. I think we should temper our expectations of the capabilities of AI. So there&#8217;s a technical term called a terminal goal. The delineation between specific artificial intelligences and machine learning, in that world, and the concept of the general artificial intelligences, which is what everyone thinks of when they think of the I in artificial intelligence, is an AI that is capable of forming its own terminal goals.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its own, don&#8217;t get me wrong, like we have AIs that are capable of forming what are called intermediate nodes. If you tell an AI of a particular type to go and do a particular thing, then it is capable of forming intermediate steps. In order to do the thing you&#8217;ve told me, I need to first do this, which requires me to do that. And, you know, it forms a chain of goals, but none of those goals are emergent from the AI. They are towards a goal we have given the AI externally.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That ability to form a goal internally is the concept of a terminal goal. And we don&#8217;t have, large language models don&#8217;t have terminal goals. Large language models, stable diffusion, all of the different algorithms that are hot topics today, are all couched within the idea of solving a problem given to them as an input.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which means there&#8217;s always going to need to be a human. At least with what we&#8217;ve got now. No matter how good these models get, how much brain power we give them. And this maybe is going against what I said earlier of like, I think it&#8217;s probably a quantity thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s a tipping point. Maybe there&#8217;s a tipping point where the intermediate goal that it forms is indistinguishable from a terminal goal in a human brain. But for the moment, I think there always needs to be a human there to give the AI the task to solve. Open AI isn&#8217;t just running servers randomly just doing stuff. It spends its computational time answering users prompts and questions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:48] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So if we pursue artificial intelligence research, and the end goal is to create an AGI, then presumably at some point we&#8217;ve got something which is indistinguishable from a human because it can set its own goals.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:02] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> The cyberpunk dystopia, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> But we&#8217;re not there yet. This is a ways off, my understanding at least anyway. But in the more short term, let&#8217;s bind it to the loss of jobs.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:11] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> In my workshop this morning, I think the primary point that I wanted to get across is, if you are currently in the WordPress community, employed and or making an income out of WordPress. ChatGPT, Bard, generative AI, large language models are a tool that you should be learning to use. They&#8217;re not going to replace you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s less true on the content generation side, because large language models are particularly good at that. But there&#8217;s a flip side to that because on the software development side, programming languages have very strict grammars, which means the statistical model is particularly good at producing output for programming languages.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not good at handling the large amounts of complexity that can exist in large pieces of code. But equally so, I mean, if you ask it to give you a hundred items of things to do in Athens, whilst I&#8217;m totally, totally, working hard at a conference, uh, then you are probably going to get repeats. You might run into the confusion problem, the hallucination issue at some point there, where just a hundred is too much.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody has ever written an article of a hundred things to do in Athens in a day. I don&#8217;t know, I haven&#8217;t tried that. 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And the same as true, my editor wants 200 words or whatever on fun things to do in Athens overnight.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, great. ChatGPT can do that for the editor. Why does he need a junior content writer anymore? But the problem is, I mean, we&#8217;ve already said, sometimes it&#8217;s spectacularly wrong. Does that editor always have the time to actually vet the output? Probably not. And so the job of that junior is going to transform into, they need to be a subeditor. They need to be a content moderator almost, rather than a content generator.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s a skill that only comes from having written the content yourself. We learn by making mistakes, and if we are not making those mistakes because AI is generating the stuff, and either not making mistakes or making mistakes that we haven&#8217;t made before ourselves, and thus don&#8217;t recognize his mistakes. So my fear of the job losses aspect of AI is not that it&#8217;s going to wipe out people who are working already. It&#8217;s going to make that barrier to entry for the next generation, it&#8217;s knocking the bottom rung out of the ladder.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And unless we change the ways that we teach people as they are entering the community, the WordPress community, the industry, and all the industries which AI is going to affect, the basics, and we focus on it. You know, it&#8217;s a catch 22. We have to teach people to do stuff without AI, so they can learn the basics. But at the same time, they also have to learn how to use AI so they can do the basics in the modern world.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I mean, we get back to that old debate like, why am I learning trigonometry in school? Because maybe someday it actually helps you do your job. Admittedly, so far, not so much. But I will say this. History, I did history in school. That has surprisingly turned out to be one of the most useful subjects I ever did, just because it taught me how to write. Which I didn&#8217;t learn in English class. Go figure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:17] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It sounds like you are quite sanguine for now. If you are in the space and listening to this podcast now, everything is fine right now.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:26] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:27] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Maybe less sanguine for the future. Given that, do you think that AI more broadly needs to be corralled. There need to be guardrails put in place. There needs to be legislation. I don&#8217;t know how any of that works, but manufacturers of AI being put under the auspices of, well it would have to be governments, I guess. But some kind of system of checks and balances to make sure that it&#8217;s not, I don&#8217;t know, deliberately producing fakes. Or that the fakes are getting, the hallucinations are getting minimized. That it&#8217;s not doing things that aren&#8217;t in humanity&#8217;s best interests.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:39:59] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Absolutely. Yes. Although I&#8217;m not sure how we could do a good job of it, to be fair. The whole concept of, we want AIs to operate in humanity&#8217;s best interests. Who decides? The alignment problem crops up here where, it&#8217;s well known that we can train an AI to do something we think that it&#8217;s going to do, and it seems to be doing that thing until suddenly it doesn&#8217;t.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we just get some weird output. And then when we go digging, we realize actually it was trying to solve an entirely different problem to what we thought we were training it on, that just happened to have a huge amount of overlap with the thing that we did. But when we get to those edge cases, it goes off in what we think is a wildly wrong direction. 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We hope.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:42:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think we kind of come back to where we started. If we had a crystal ball, and we could stare five, two years, three years, 10 years into the future. That feels like it would be a really great thing to have at the moment. There&#8217;s obviously going to be benefits. It&#8217;s going to make work certainly more productive. It&#8217;s going to make us be able to produce more things. But as you&#8217;ve just talked over the last 20 minutes or so, there&#8217;s also points of concern and things to be ironed out in the near term.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:42:52] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Absolutely, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:42:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> We&#8217;re fast running out of time, so I think we&#8217;ll wrap it up if that&#8217;s all right? A quick one James, if somebody is interested, you&#8217;ve planted the seed of interest about AI and they want to get in touch with you and natter about this some more, where would they do that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:06] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> The best way is probably email. I am not a social person in the social media sense. I don&#8217;t have Twitter. I don&#8217;t do any of that. So I&#8217;m probably terrible for this when I think about it. My email is, J for Juliet, G for golf, my surname D O M for mother, I, N for November, Y for yankee at gmail.com. Please don&#8217;t spam. Please don&#8217;t get AI to spam me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, yeah. James Dominy, thank you so much for joining us today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:43:34] <strong>James Dominy:</strong> Thank you for the opportunity. It&#8217;s been great fun, and I&#8217;ve really enjoyed being able to kind of deep dive into a lot of the stuff I just had to gloss over in the workshop. Thank you.</p>\n</div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the podcast today we have <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdominy/?originalSubdomain=ie\">James Dominy</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>James is a computer scientist with a masters degree in bioinformatics. He lives in Ireland, working at the WPEngine Limerick office.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second podcast recorded at WordCamp Europe 2023 in Athens. James gave a talk at the event about the influence of AI on the WordPress community, and how it’s going to disrupt so many of the roles which WordPressers currently occupy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talk about the recent rise of ChatGPT and the fact that it’s made AI available to almost anyone. 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According to <a href=\"https://moz.com/blog/having-a-captcha-is-killing-your-conversion-rate\">Moz</a>, including a CAPTCHA could result in a loss of 3.2% of conversions. Yikes!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why today, we&#8217;ll explain the problem with the traditional CAPTCHA setup, offer a stand-out alternative, and provide steps to add CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA to your WordPress site, if that&#8217;s still the route you feel most comfortable with.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>After following this guide, your website will be safer and more secure for your visitors.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s get started!</p>\n\n\n\n<span id=\"more-70973\"></span>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The problem with traditional CAPTCHA solutions</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While <a href=\"https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728?hl=en#:~:text=CAPTCHA%20(Completely%20Automated%20Public%20Turing,known%20as%20challenge%2Dresponse%20authentication.\">CAPTCHA</a> systems have been widely adopted for their ability to prevent spam and bot activity, they do come with a number of drawbacks. Make sure you’re aware of these downsides before you use a WordPress CAPTCHA plugin.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. They’re challenging for those with visual impairments</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional CAPTCHA systems often rely on distorted images of text, making it difficult for users with visual impairments to solve them. This can lead to accessibility issues and discourage visitors from interacting with your site.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image12.png\" alt=\"example of a CAPTCHA asking the user to select squares with red spheres\" class=\"wp-image-70975\" width=\"385\" height=\"463\" />\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. They create a frustrating experience&nbsp;</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>CAPTCHAs can be frustrating and time-consuming to solve, particularly when the distorted text is difficult to read. This annoyance can cause people to leave your site without completing their intended action, such as submitting a form or making a purchase. Sometimes, visitors may even have to solve multiple CAPTCHAs —&nbsp;a real test of endurance.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. They can generate false positives</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>CAPTCHA systems can sometimes incorrectly identify real human users as bots, preventing them from accessing your site or submitting forms. This can lead to a loss of leads, customers, or subscribers.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. They’re easily bypassed by sophisticated bots</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As bots become more advanced, they’re increasingly able to bypass traditional CAPTCHA systems, rendering them less effective at preventing spam and malicious activity on your site.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. They can create a negative user experience</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Implementing CAPTCHA systems can negatively impact your site&#8217;s user experience, particularly when the CAPTCHAs are overly complex or difficult to solve. This can lead to lower visitor satisfaction and, ultimately, decreased engagement and conversions.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. They can lead to lower conversion rates</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned above, the frustrating experience of solving CAPTCHAs can lead to users abandoning your site before completing their intended actions. This can result in lower conversion rates for your business.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. They can cause higher page load times</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Implementing CAPTCHA systems can also contribute to slower page load times, as they often require additional resources and scripts to load. This can negatively impact your site&#8217;s performance and search engine rankings.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given these challenges, it&#8217;s important to find a solution that’s both effective at preventing spam and bots, while also providing a positive user experience. That&#8217;s where Akismet comes in to save the day.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does Akismet address these issues?</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet addresses the shortcomings of traditional CAPTCHA systems by employing advanced algorithms and a continuously-updated database of spam signatures. It can effectively identify and block spam and malicious activity without any user input and without annoying barriers for site visitors.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The result is enhanced accessibility, a superior user experience, and fewer false positives.&nbsp;</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the most sophisticated bots can be identified and blocked by Akismet due to its advanced spam detection technology and constantly-updated database. By staying ahead of emerging threats, Akismet ensures your online presence remains secure and your valuable content and data are safeguarded.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The benefits of using Akismet over CAPTCHA</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the challenges associated with traditional CAPTCHA solutions, Akismet presents several benefits that make it a compelling and superior alternative for WordPress site owners.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Greater user-friendliness</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet doesn&#8217;t require users to solve puzzles or enter codes, ensuring a more pleasant and frustration-free browsing experience. It operates seamlessly in the background, allowing visitors to focus on your content and offerings without any distractions or interruptions.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Improved accessibility for all users</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet can be used by people with vision impairments because it doesn’t use visual puzzles to block spam and bots. This approach makes sure that your website is user-friendly and welcoming to a diverse audience, creating a positive online environment for everyone.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Greater accuracy in spam detection</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet uses advanced algorithms and a vast database of spam signatures to minimize false positives. This means that genuine users can access and interact with your site without being mistakenly identified as bots. This accurate spam detection helps build a trustworthy online presence and improve user experiences.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Robust effectiveness against malicious activity</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet is highly effective at identifying and blocking spam and malicious activity, including sophisticated bots that can bypass traditional CAPTCHA systems. Its constantly-updated database and advanced spam detection technology ensure your website remains secure and protected from emerging threats.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Optimized performance and load times</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet runs in the background and won&#8217;t slow down your website by using extra data or running unnecessary scripts. This means your website will stay fast and responsive for your visitors, which can help improve your search engine rankings and create a great browsing experience.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this sounds like a solid prospect, you&#8217;ll be delighted to hear that we&#8217;re discussing how to install and set up Akismet on WordPress next.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to add Akismet to WordPress</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Incorporating <a href=\"https://akismet.com/\">Akismet</a> into WordPress comment and contact forms is a breeze, and you can accomplish it in just a few steps. However, the procedure might differ slightly depending on the contact form or plugin you&#8217;re using. Let&#8217;s explore how it&#8217;s done!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Install the Akismet plugin</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet can be used for free to get rid of spam <a href=\"https://akismet.com/blog/wordpress-pros-and-cons-of-enabling-comments/\">comments</a> and harmful form submissions on your non-commercial site. Websites run for commercial purposes can choose from several affordable premium options.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, install and activate the plugin.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this, log in to your WordPress dashboard, go to the <strong>Plugins</strong> tab, click <strong>Add New</strong>, and search for it. The plugin is usually included in the top &#8220;<strong>Featured</strong>&#8221; list.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image6.png\" alt=\"finding Akismet in the WordPress repository\" class=\"wp-image-70976\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" />\n\n\n\n<p>To install the plugin, click on<strong> Install Now</strong> and then <strong>Activate</strong>. After activation, go to <strong>Settings</strong> and select <strong>Akismet Anti-Spam</strong>. Under <strong>Settings</strong>, locate the <strong>API key</strong> field.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get the key by going to the Akismet website and creating an account.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image7.png\" alt=\"Aksimet homepage with the text, \" />\n\n\n\n<p>Once you finish the signup process on the website, log in to your new account then locate <strong>My Account</strong> and choose <strong>Add Subscription</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can select your desired plan next. The <strong>Personal</strong> plan is free for individual website use if your site is considered &#8220;non-commercial.&#8221;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>After registering, you’ll receive an API key in the My Account section. Copy this key and then navigate to the WordPress dashboard&#8217;s <strong>Settings → Akismet Anti-Spam</strong> screen. Next, paste the key into the <strong>API Key</strong> field.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image1.png\" alt=\"Akismet settings in WordPress\" class=\"wp-image-70979\" width=\"450\" height=\"267\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Click on <strong>Save Changes</strong> to finish.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet will automatically filter comment spam and put it in a queue for review on the dashboard. But if you want it to work on your contact form(s), you&#8217;ll need to complete another step.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Add Akismet to your contact form</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, WordPress does not have a contact form feature. Therefore, you’ll need to use plugins to include contact forms on their sites. The method to add these forms will vary based on the plugin being used.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some popular contact form plugins, including <a href=\"https://jetpack.com/features/discussion/contact-forms/\">Jetpack</a>, already have Akismet support built-in.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other plugins necessitate setting up Akismet add-ons to incorporate spam protection into their forms. <a href=\"https://www.gravityforms.com/\">Gravity Forms</a> is the most popular example of this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still other WordPress plugins like <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/\">Contact Form 7</a> require a code snippet to add Akismet support.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, it&#8217;s easy to configure Akismet on your contact forms, no matter which method you choose.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Set up the anti-spam settings in Akismet</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet is very much a set-it-and-forget-it type of tool. Just install, activate, and you&#8217;re basically done. But it also allows you to control how to handle contact form spam a bit more precisely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plugin is configured, by default, to send flagged comments to a holding queue located in the <strong>Comments</strong> section of the WordPress dashboard so that you can review them later. You can also set up Akismet to delete spam entirely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this sounds appealing, just go to<strong> Settings → Akismet Anti-Spam</strong> and locate the <strong>Settings</strong>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scroll down to the section called <strong>Strictness</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image10.png\" alt=\"Strictness settings for Akismet\" class=\"wp-image-70980\" width=\"450\" height=\"170\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Akismet is good at identifying which messages are spam and which ones are legitimate, which means you can delete the spam messages from your contact form without worry. However, if you want to keep all messages, you can select the option to <strong>Always put spam in the Spam folder for review</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that Akismet stores spam comments for 15 days before they&#8217;re deleted. So, if you go for this option, review your queue regularly.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Still want to use CAPTCHA?</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we suggest using Akismet due to its ease-of-use and success in blocking spam and bots, we realize that certain users may still want to learn how to add CAPTCHA to WordPress. This section will provide clear instructions on how to integrate both CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA into a WordPress contact form.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. How to add CAPTCHA to a WordPress contact form</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Although most well-known contact form plugins include CAPTCHA functionality, you can also manually incorporate CAPTCHA into any form element on WordPress that&#8217;s being misused. This not only includes contact forms, but also comment forms, login pages, and opt-in forms.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Install and activate the Friendly CAPTCHA for WordPress plugin</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For the purposes of this tutorial, we&#8217;re using the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/friendly-captcha/\">Friendly CAPTCHA for WordPress</a> plugins, though there are other options available.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to your WordPress dashboard then to <strong>Plugins → Add New</strong> and search for the plugin by name.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image8-1.png\" alt=\"Friendly Captcha for WordPress plugin\" class=\"wp-image-70982\" width=\"225\" height=\"188\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Once you locate it, click <strong>Install → Activate</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Add the site key and secret key</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To input your<strong> </strong>Site key and Secret key, locate<strong> Friendly Captcha</strong> in the dashboard, then click <strong>Settings</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then go to the <a href=\"https://friendlycaptcha.com\">Friendly Captcha</a> website and create an account. Pick a plan, then copy your site key.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image5.png\" alt=\"creating a Friendly Captcha account\" class=\"wp-image-70983\" width=\"450\" height=\"199\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Go back to your WordPress installation and paste in the<strong> Site key</strong> in the appropriate field. Then go back to your account on the website and generate an API key by typing in a name for it then clicking <strong>Create API Key.</strong>&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image13.png\" alt=\"creating an API key\" class=\"wp-image-70984\" width=\"450\" height=\"195\" />\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Finish configuring settings</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For this tutorial, please select the comment form box to enable forms and keep all other settings at their default values to configure the remaining options based on your preferences.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4: Save and view</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done making changes, click <strong>Save Changes,</strong> then visit a live blog post to verify the comment form is working as intended.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. How to add reCAPTCHA to a WordPress contact form</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Google reCAPTCHA adds an extra layer of protection to your contact forms, using a two-step verification process. This tool can help stop bots and spammers, as they&#8217;ll need to pass the reCAPTCHA test. You can use a WordPress CAPTCHA plugin to get the job done. Here&#8217;s how you can incorporate it into your WordPress contact form:</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Install and activate a WordPress reCAPTCHA plugin</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First, install and activate the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-recaptcha/\">Simple Google reCAPTCHA plugin</a>. Just search for it by name under <strong>Plugins → Add New</strong>. Then click <strong>Install → Activate</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image11.png\" alt=\"the Simple Google reCAPTCHA plugin\" class=\"wp-image-70985\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" />\n\n\n\n<p>After activation, navigate to<strong> Settings → Google reCAPTCHA</strong> to configure the plugin settings.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Configure the plugin settings</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The plugin will prompt you to enter Google reCAPTCHA keys. You can obtain these keys for free from the official reCAPTCHA website by clicking the <strong>register your domain</strong> link at the top of the page.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image2.png\" alt=\"warning to register your domain \" class=\"wp-image-70986\" width=\"450\" height=\"65\" />\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Obtain reCAPTCHA API keys by registering your website</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>register your domain</strong> link directs you to the Google reCAPTCHA website, where you can register your site to work with reCAPTCHA.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign in with your Google account, and you&#8217;ll see the <strong>Register a new site</strong> page. Enter the necessary basic information to register your site.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image14.png\" alt=\"registering a site with Google\" class=\"wp-image-70987\" width=\"450\" height=\"190\" />\n\n\n\n<p>In the <strong>Label</strong> field, input your website name or any name of your choice to help you identify your site later.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4: Add a new site</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, choose the <strong>reCAPTCHA V2</strong> radio button to reveal two new options.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://akismet455732288.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image9-1.png\" alt=\"options for reCAPTCHA type\" class=\"wp-image-70988\" width=\"450\" height=\"129\" />\n\n\n\n<p>To add the reCAPTCHA checkbox to your site, select the first option,<strong> I&#8217;m not a robot </strong>checkbox.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <strong>Domains</strong> text box, add the domain name of your website.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also add multiple domains or subdomains by clicking the plus <strong>+</strong> icon, enabling you to use the same API keys across different websites.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 5: Add domain and email to your reCAPTCHA site</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Google will automatically add your email address under <strong>Owners</strong>. 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If you are keen to learn how to do it, please let me know and I do a short tutorial zoom with you. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend edition seems rather short, too </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours, 💕<br /><em>Birgit</em></p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Join us </strong>for the <a href=\"https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516851799317/WN_AFgYtmyaRviAY3b2oGP2pg\">next Gutenberg Live Q &amp; A July 6th, 2023, at 17:00 UTC</a> </p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leveraging Gutenberg&#8217;s architecture to take plugin development to new levels.</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn how Gutenberg components and scripts can be used outside the block editor to revamp a plugin&#8217;s code base in this Case Study of GiveWP 3.0 with Jason Adams, Director of Development, Jon Waldstein, Lead Developer of GiveWP and co-host Lena Morita, JavaScript Developer on the Components team. </p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516851799317/WN_AFgYtmyaRviAY3b2oGP2pg\"><img /></a>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost\"><ul><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a><ul><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#reusable\">Reusable blocks are now called Patterns</a></li></ul></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled\">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press\">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor</a></li></ul></div>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p><strong>🎙️ </strong> New episode:  <strong><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-84-gutenberg-15-9-and-16-0-wordpress-6-3/\">Gutenberg Changelog #84 – Gutenberg 15.9 and 16.0, Developer Blog Updates, and WordPress 6.3</a> </strong>with special guest, Isabel Brison and host Birgit Pauli-Haack</p>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his latest <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/06/19/design-share-jun-5-jun-16/\"><strong>Design Share: Jun 5–Jun 16</strong></a>, <strong>Joen Assmussen</strong> shares the work of the WordPress Design team on the </p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>flow of creating patterns via the Site Editor, </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Top Toolbar refinements, </li>\n\n\n\n<li>ideas on how to customize the Drop Caps, </li>\n\n\n\n<li>more customization tools for the list blocks, </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home template details panel </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Site editor publishing, and</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interesting mock-ups for a redesign of the Learn.WordPress pages. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jamie Marsland</strong> shared in his latest video,<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIZ5w7MFng\"><strong> WordPress Block Theme Secret Hacks You Didn&#8217;t Know Existed</strong></a>, five secret features of Block Themes, you might not know about. 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