About this plugin
Mendbird is a plain English check of your website. From the outside it can only guess some versions. This helper reads them from inside, so every plugin, theme, WordPress itself, PHP and the database can be checked against the public lists of known security flaws each morning, and you are told in plain English what needs updating and why.
It only reads. php.
What it sends, and nothing else:
- the names and versions of WordPress, your plugins and themes, and whether each is switched on
- the versions of PHP, its add-ons, the database and the web server
- the server’s operating system and its packages, read from the files its package manager keeps (nothing is run), as the system patches the web server, PHP and the database without changing their version numbers
- five settings: whether debug mode shows errors to visitors, whether admins can edit code from the dashboard, whether plugins update themselves, whether PHP announces its version, and how many admin accounts there are (a number, never names)
Tools, Mendbird helper shows exactly what it sends, drawn from the same list Mendbird receives.
The whole plugin is one short file. com/moonlathe-technologies/mendbird-helper
External services
com), a website checking service run by Moonlathe Technologies Ltd. Nothing is sent until you press Connect to Mendbird or paste a key.
- When you press Connect to Mendbird, your browser goes to mendbird.com with your site’s address and the address of this plugin’s page in your dashboard, so Mendbird can bring you back. After you confirm, the plugin sends one request to https://mendbird.com/api/connect containing only the one time code Mendbird gave you, and receives your site’s key in reply.
- Once connected, Mendbird asks your site for the list described above once a day, at https://your-site/?mendbird-helper. The plugin answers only requests signed with your site’s key, and replies with the list, signed the same way. It sends nothing on its own.
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