Wordfence 5.0.5 Beta 1 is now available.

Hi Beta Team,

The 5.0.5 beta for wordfence is available at:

http://www.wordfence.com/betas/wordfence-5.0.5-beta1.zip

This is a minor maintenance release. The changes in this release are:

• Fix: Removed mysql_real_escape_string because it’s deprecated. Using WP’s internal escape.
• Fix: Wordfence issues list would be deleted halfway through scan under certain conditions.
• Fix: Connection tester would generate php error under certain conditions.

The issues-list and mysql_real_escape_string fixes are important because they cause Wordfence to break when the bug occurs. So to test the fix, start a scan that will generate some issues, then when the scan is done and you have the issues shown, post a comment with comment scanning enabled. Then check if your issues list has been wiped out. If not, the bug is fixed.

If you’re running a newer PHP mysql extension you would see a lot of warnings about mysql_real_escape_string being deprecated. That’s now fixed. In some cases it would cause Wordfence to crash with an out of memory error due to the extreme number of log events it would generate.

The third fix is the connection tester – sometimes WordPress’s internal post request fetcher would return a WP_Error object and we now deal with that case elegantly.

We’re hoping to release this to the general public on Monday around noon.
Regards,

Mark.