Literal malware

  • magneticdud

    (@magneticdud)


    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    I had to uninstall it and remove not once but twice. I don’t like that wordpress is installing this unwanted malware (by definition, since it installs without user confirmation and ignores the previous attempt where i already uninstalled it)

    I don’t use the rest api but i don’t want to disable it until it’s really needed

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  • Barry

    (@barryhughes-1)

    1 month, 1 week ago

    Hi @magneticdud,

    I’m sorry to hear you’ve experienced some difficulties. In making this plugin available and implementing automatic installation (via WooCommerce), our intention was only ever to be helpful and minimize disruption for our community of users as we transition away from the Legacy REST API.

    I’m not sure if there is a single canonical definition of malware but, if there was, I would have thought it would have to contain a strong element of intent to cause harm or perhaps intent to steal information: that definitely is not the case here, even if perhaps there are some flaws in the auto-install logic (and, based on your report here, we’ll definitely explore if we missed something there).

    Thanks for taking the time to leave a review—and our apologies again if we set off any alarm bells.

    Plugin Author konamiman

    (@konamiman)

    1 month, 1 week ago

    Hi @magneticdud, you can prevent the plugin from being automatically installed by adding the following code snippet to your site, for example with the Code Snippets plugin:

    add_filter( 'woocommerce_skip_legacy_rest_api_plugin_auto_install', '__return_true' );

    We mentioned this in the plugin autoinstall announcement post, apologies if that wasn’t clear enough.

    • This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by konamiman.
    • This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by konamiman.
    Thread Starter magneticdud

    (@magneticdud)

    4 weeks ago

    I don’t want to add yet another line in the functions.php, in this way it becomes an unmanageable mess, plus it’s going to slow down the site by some half milliseconds as it has to parse another “useless” line

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