Vulnerability Checker PHP Fatal Error

Howdy,

I am getting a fatal PHP error when viewing the vulerability page for a site.

[11-Dec-2025 21:59:30 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ValueError: Missing format specifier at end of string in /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/mainwp-vulnerability-checker-extension/class/class-mainwp-vulnerability-checker.php:595
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/mainwp-vulnerability-checker-extension/class/class-mainwp-vulnerability-checker.php(595): printf()
#1 /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/mainwp-vulnerability-checker-extension/class/class-mainwp-vulnerability-checker.php(459): MainWP_Vulnerability_Checker::render_wpvulndb_detail_tabs()
#2 /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(324): MainWP_Vulnerability_Checker::render_detail()
#3 /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(348): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#4 /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action()
#5 /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-admin/admin.php(260): do_action()
#6 {main}
  thrown in /var/www/mainwp.mysite.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/mainwp-vulnerability-checker-extension/class/class-mainwp-vulnerability-checker.php on line 595

– system info


### WordPress Check                Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

WordPress Version                  >=6.2                                                  6.9                                          Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  40M                                          Warning     
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        

### PHP                            Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

PHP Version                        >=7.4                                                  8.4.15                                       Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           3000                                         Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           6000                                         Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=256M                                                 256M                                         Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   5120M                                        Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   5120M                                        Pass        
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                error:12000079:random number generator::Cannot open fileWarning     
cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          6000                                         Pass        
cURL Version                       >=7.29.0                                               7.81.0                                       Pass        
OpenSSL Version                    >=OpenSSL/1.1.0                                        OpenSSL/3.0.2                                Pass        
OpenSSL Working Status             Yes                                                    Yes                                          Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP Exif Support                   N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP IPTC Support                   N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP XML Support                    N/A                                                    YES                                                      
Function `tmpfile` enabled         N/A                                                    Enabled                                      Pass        
PHP Session enabled                N/A                                                    Enabled                                      Pass        
PHP Disabled Functions             N/A                                                    , _getppid, disk_free_space, diskfreespace, dl, escapeshellcmd, exec, getmyuid, highlight_file, link, passthru, pcntl_alarm, pcntl_async_signals, pcntl_exec, pcntl_fork, pcntl_get_last_error, pcntl_getpriority, pcntl_setpriority, pcntl_signal, pcntl_signal_dispatch, pcntl_signal_get_handler, pcntl_sigprocmask, pcntl_sigtimedwait, pcntl_sigwaitinfo, pcntl_strerror, pcntl_wait, pcntl_waitpid, pcntl_wexitstatus, pcntl_wifcontinued, pcntl_wifexited, pcntl_wifsignaled, pcntl_wifsignaled, pcntl_wifstopped, pcntl_wstopsig, pcntl_wtermsig, popen, posix, posix_ctermid, posix_getcwd, posix_getegid, posix_geteuid, posix_getgid, posix_getgrgid, posix_getgrnam, posix_getgroups, posix_getlogin, posix_getpgid, posix_getpgrp, posix_getpid, posix_getpwuid, posix_getrlimit, posix_getsid, posix_getuid, posix_isatty, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setegid, posix_seteuid, posix_setgid, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, posix_times, posix_ttyname, posix_uname, proc_close, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, shell_exec, show_source, socket_accept, socket_bind, socket_clear_error, socket_close, socket_connect, socket_create_listen, socket_create_pair, socket_listen, socket_read, stream_socket_server, symlink, system,            
PHP Loaded Extensions              N/A                                                    Core, FFI, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, hash, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, mcrypt, memcached, msgpack, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, random, readline, redis, session, shmop, soap, sockets, sodium, sqlite3, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tidy, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib            

### MySQL                          Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  8.0.42-33                                    Pass        
MySQL Mode                         N/A                                                    ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION            
MySQL Client Encoding              N/A                                                    utf8                                                     

### Server Configuration           Detected Value                                      ###

Server Software                    nginx/1.28.0                                           
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Architecture                       64         bit                                         
Server Protocol                    HTTP/2.0                                               
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Server self connect                Not expected HTTP response body:                       
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
Memory Usage                       29.39 MB                                               
Request Time                       1765492427                                             
Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    

### MainWP Dashboard Settings      Detected Value                                      ###

MainWP Dashboard Version           Latest: 5.4.1 | Detected: 5.4.1 Pass                   
Number of connected sites          11                                                     
Use WP Cron                        Yes                                                    
Optimize data loading              No                                                     
WP Core advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Plugin advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Theme advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Abandoned plugins/themes tolerance 365                                                    
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
MainWP legacy backups enabled      No                                                     
Primary backup system              MainWP Legacy Backups                                  
Enable Uptime Monitoring           Yes                                                    
Site health monitoring enabled     Yes                                                    
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Maximum simultaneous sync requests 8                                                      
Maximum simultaneous install and update requests3                                                      
Maximum simultaneous uptime monitoring requests (Default: 10)10                                                     
Cache control enabled              Yes                                                    
REST API enabled                   No                                                     

### Extensions                     Version                                                Licence                                      Status   ###

MainWP Advanced Uptime Monitor Integration5.3.3                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP White Label Extension       5.0.1                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Bulk Settings Manager Extension5.0.4                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Cost Tracker Assistant Extension5.0.7                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Custom Dashboard Extension  5.0.1                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Database Updater Extension  5.0.7                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Favorites Extension         5.1.3                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Google Analytics Extension  5.0.1                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Lighthouse Extension        5.1.2                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Page Speed Extension        4.0.3                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Pro Reports Extension       5.0.10                                                 Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Time Capsule Extension      5.0.1                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP Vulnerability Checker Extension5.0.3                                                  Active                                       Pass        
Wordfence Integration              5.1                                                    Inactive                                     Warning     
MainWP WordPress SEO Extension     5.0.1                                                  Inactive                                     Warning     

### Plugin                         Version                                                Status                                    ###

Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule1.22.25                                                Active                                       
FluentSMTP                         2.2.92                                                 Active                                       
MainWP Child                       5.4.1                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Child Reports               2.2.6                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Dashboard                   5.4.1                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Key Maker                   1.3                                                    Active                                       
MainWP Page Speed Extension        4.0.3                                                  Active                                       
Query Monitor                      3.20.2                                                 Active                                       
Redis Object Cache                 2.7.0                                                  Active                                       
Wordfence Security                 8.1.3                                                  Active                                       
Yoast SEO                          26.5                                                   Active                                       

Hey @kayosdesign

We are looking into this, and I’ll update you as soon as I have more info.