Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan - Version 6.3.9

Version Description

• Improvement: Malware signature checking has been better optimized to improve overall speed.
• Improvement: Updated the bundled GeoIP database.
• Improvement: The memory tester now tests up to the configured scan limit rather than a fixed value.
• Improvement: Added a test to the diagnostics page that verifies permissions to the WAF config location.
• Improvement: The diagnostics page now contains a callback test for the server itself.
• Improvement: Updated the styling of dashboard notifications for better separation.
• Improvement: Added additional constants to the diagnostics page.
• Change: Wordfence now enters a read-only mode with its configuration files when run via the 'cli' PHP SAPI on a misconfigured web server to avoid file ownership changing.
• Change: Changed how administrator accounts are detected to compensate for managed WordPress sites that do not have the standard permissions.
• Change: The table list on the diagnostics page is now limited in length to avoid being exceedingly large on big multisite installations.
• Fix: Improved updating of WAF config values to minimize writing to disk.
• Fix: The blacklist's blocked IP records are now correctly trimmed when expired.
• Fix: Added error suppression to the WAF attack data functions to prevent corrupt records from breaking the no-cache headers.
• Fix: Fixed some incorrect documentation links on the diagnostics page.
• Fix: Fixed a typo in a constant on the diagnostics page.