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I’ve been a very satisfied customer of both the free and paid for versions of BBQ for a couple of years now.
After updating a series of plug-ins yesterday including the free version of BBQ firewall, I was surprised to see the message “Plugin File Does not Exist” and warnings at the top of my Dashboard. Upon investigation I found that within seconds of the latest version of the plug-in being added, the key source file (block-bad-queries.php) disappears. This is true whether the installation is done via the WP Plugins web page or via downloading the zip file and adding the contents of the archive manually via FTP. I’ve tried both the latest update and the November versions with the same result.
The message about the file being missing is generated when I attempt to activate the plugin and the net effect is that the plugin disappears from my list of plug-ins on the WP Plugin back-end screen. I’ve found that other plug-ins may be updated and new ones added without any issues.
I have two “copies” of this site with slight variations on the same server (used as “development” and “test”) and both exhibit exactly the same symptoms.
Is this a BBQ issue or do I have some infection or is there some other factor at play on the site that is triggering this action? When the problem was first observed I did not have any security plug-ins installed or active and just relied upon basic auth login protection for the sites. Since then I’ve installed and run both Sucuri and WordFence free versions and scanned more than once with no malicious files found on either site.
All suggestions gratefully received.