Katsushi Kawamori on "[Plugin: Media from FTP] Mistakenly registering files outside of uploads directory?"

Hi Katsushi,

I am experiencing an odd issue with my WordPress, where a lot of system files outside of the uploads folder are being registered into the media library, even though the files dont exist at the url registered in the library.

Here is an example URL of one that has been registered:
http://www.domain.org.au/wp-content/uploads/home/www/public_html/php.ini
I have no 'home' folder within my uploads folder, but that is obviously the full filesystem path to a file that exists in my WordPress install *outside* of the uploads folder.

I am not 100% sure that it is your plugin doing it, but the last time all these files were added was about the same time that the plugin says it ran (scheduled to run hourly). Do you think it is possibly looking outside the uploads folder? A possible misconfiguration? Both the upload_path and the upload_url_path settings are empty in the /wp-admin/options.php page... should they have a value set?

I have checked the 'create log' option to see if it is this working, but it doesn't seem to record anything for me, even when it adds a file that is definitely within the uploads directory.

Thanks,
Michael

https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-from-ftp/