{"id":5789,"date":"2022-12-04T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T02:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:30:20","slug":"whats-new-in-bulletproof-security-pro-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/5789\/bulletproof-security-pro\/whats-new-in-bulletproof-security-pro-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Whats New In BulletProof Security Pro 17\/17.1\/17.2\/17.3\/17.4\/17.5"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBPS Pro 17.5<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Procedural Change:<\/strong><\/span> Plugin Firewall whitelist rule change: Whitelist rules now compensate for plugin URL’s that contain Query Strings. Existing whitelist rules are automatically changed\/fixed on BPS Pro upgrade and new whitelist rules are created with the new whitelist RegEx code.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nBPS Pro 17.4<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Procedural Change:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Changed the DB creation code to be compatible with some web hosts which could not process the BPS DB creation code.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Multisite: Undefined variable $check_string_values in general-functions.php on line 999.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nBPS Pro 17.3<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 New Option: Setup Wizard Options: Folder Lock Scan Disable:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0If the Folder Lock scanner is unable to automatically create the Folder Lock database table due to a corrupt\/damaged or server restricted folder this option can be used to disable the automated folder scanner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nBPS Pro 17.2<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Procedural Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Additional help information added for JTC Anti-Spam|Anti-Hacker > JTC Tooltip.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Procedural Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Remove ini_set Options code from the wp-config.php file on BPS Pro uninstallation.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Procedural Fix:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Exclude the BPS Pro Dashboard Status Display status display from displaying on MainWP plugin pages.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Table xxxxx.wp_bpspro_folder_lock doesn’t exist. Dev note: Removed call to bpsPro_SWizard_flock_folder_scan() in BPS Pro upgrade function.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Return type of BPSWPCSourceExcludeRecursiveFilterIterator::accept() should either be compatible with FilterIterator::accept(): bool, or the #[\\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in pwizard-functions.php:882. Dev note: Added conditional code for PHP 9 and lower versions of PHP.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Undefined variable $Storage_engine in db-monitor.php on line 1935<<\/p>\n

\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Attempt to read property “version” on string in functions.php on line 2149<\/p>\n

\u2022 API Server Update:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Additional info link added to BPS Pro Download-Request Key automated email. Removed https scheme in urls to prevent the automated email from being seen as spam.<\/p>\n

\u2022 API Server Update:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Plugin Info Card update.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nBPS Pro 17.1<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Procedural Fix:<\/span><\/strong> A section of code in the arq-cron.php file was causing a false-positive result for some web hosts malware scanner. The code has been rewritten to avoid being falsely seen as malicious code.<\/p>\n

BugFix:<\/span><\/strong> Setup Wizard AutoFix: W3TC autofix code missing the root htaccess file unlock code after the last modification of the W3TC Setup Wizard AutoFix code.<\/p>\n

PHP Error Fix:<\/span><\/strong> Undefined variable $vcheckVersion in functions.php on line 1934.<\/p>\n

PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span> Undefined array key “bulletproof-security\/bulletproof-security.php” in bulletproof-security.php on line 218.<\/p>\n

PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span> Plugin Firewall: DNS Name server and IP Address checking code Undefined variable fixes. Undefined variable $bpsHostName in functions.php on line 2377. Undefined variable $public_ip in firewall-autopilot.php on line 1180.<\/p>\n

BPS Pro 17<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\n\u2022 Security Fix<\/span>:<\/strong> MScan: Added nonce and capabilities protection to MScan AJAX functions. Prevents anyone except for Administrators from being able to run a scan.\u2022 Typo Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0MScan help text typo correction.\u2022 AutoRestore OBFD Cron Update:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The AutoRestore Old Backup File Deletion Cron has been updated to include the latest old WP version files (<= 6.1) to automatically delete from AutoRestore backup.\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0PHP Warning: Undefined array key “bulletproof-security\/bulletproof-security.php” in bulletproof-security.php on line 220\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Plugin Firewall AutoPilot Mode: Added error checking conditions to prevent this php error: PHP Warning: Undefined array key “HTTP_HOST” in \/xxxxx\/wp-content\/plugins\/bulletproof-security\/includes\/firewall-autopilot.php on line 646.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PHP Error Fix:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0DB Monitor: Added error checking conditions to prevent this php error: PHP Warning: Undefined variable $Flush_commands in \/xxxxx\/wp-content\/plugins\/bulletproof-security\/admin\/db-monitor\/db-monitor.php on line 1786.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BPS Pro 17.5 \u2022 Procedural Change: Plugin Firewall whitelist rule change: Whitelist rules now compensate for plugin URL’s that contain Query Strings. Existing whitelist rules are automatically changed\/fixed on BPS Pro upgrade and new whitelist rules are created with the new whitelist RegEx code. BPS Pro 17.4 \u2022 Procedural Change:\u00a0Changed the DB creation code to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[728,729],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletproof-security-pro","tag-bps-pro-17","tag-bulletproof-security-pro-17"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}