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Hi there,
I recently switched from Yoast to Rank Math. Since yesterday I started receiving numerous severe security risk alerts from Wordfence. I think these are false positives, but I am trying to figure out the reason. All warnings are concerning files with a similar naming to this:
Unknown file in WordPress core: .mx.49549774.mxThese mx files are not only found in the WP-admin folder, but also in the WP-content and wp-includes folders. All of these mx files have the same size as a corresponding (mostly) PHP file in the same directory. These seem to be some translations of taxonomy files, etc. So I wonder these are generated by Rank Math and causing these (false) warnings in Wordfence.
I will also open a support ticket at Wordfence, but I am writing to you first to find out these mx file generations are a Rank Math feature or not.
Best Regards,
Ivo – onlineprivacyreviews.com
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
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