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  • 01/16/2017 at 8:17 pm #407043
    James Finlen
    Participant

    Hello,

    I was attempting to import a CSV file to one of my directories this evening and this message appeared “ERROR: Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.”

    I opened another WordPress site/ directory and tried to upload the same file. I got the same error message again.

    I then tried to copy the information into a blank CSV file, thinking that there may have been a problem with the original CSV file. Same result.

    Last week I exported my directory information into a CSV file. Then added more information/ entry’s to it. This same document is the one I am having a problem uploading today. Not sure if that matters.

    Thanks for your help!

    01/17/2017 at 10:08 am #407084
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ James

    The security update of WordPress, version, 4.7.1, broke file uploading. This has affected a lot of plugins. As you can imagine.

    The WordPress dev are aware of this issue and are working to fix it with 4.7.2. The WordPress Trac ticket is here:

    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39550

    Until they have a fix and release it, they are recommending installing this plugin:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-real-mime-check/

    Can you please install and activate this plugin and then try to import your CSV file? It should allow you to upload CSV files until the WP dev release 4.7.2.

    I thought they would release a fix by now. But it does not seem that high priority for the WP devs (pure speculation). So I’m debating on releasing an update to CSV Upload that implement the workaround instead of waiting to WP 4.7.2.

    01/17/2017 at 2:35 pm #407085
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ James

    I’ve read and reread the WordPress Trac ticket about this issue. I’m not certain if this is actually going to be considered a bug which requires fixing.

    So…

    I just released an update to CSV Import, version 1.4.2, which address the change in WordPress 4.7.1 in a secure way which should now allow you to upload CSV files again.

    This update to CSV Import will (err should) work regardless of any changes that may or may not come with WordPress 4.7.2 in regards to this issue.

    Hope that helps, apologies for the trouble!

    ps. If you installed the Disable Real MIME Check plugin, you should deactivate and delete it.

    pss. If you see this same error in the WordPress Media Library when uploading files, then you will still need the Disable Real MIME Check plugin installed. The change I made to CSV Import will not affect other plugins or WordPress when uploading files which throw this error.

    01/17/2017 at 2:48 pm #407090
    James Finlen
    Participant

    I installed this plug in this morning Get and was able to upload/ import without issue. I will now disable and delete it and update the csv import extension. Thanks for staying on top of this stuff my man & thanks for the excellent directory!

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