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I have been testing out CiviCRM for a while and we are finally about ready to do our first e-mail campaign.

When I try to run cron tasks from wget

wget -O - -q -t 1 'http://[SITE-URL]/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=[USERNAME]&pass=[PASSWORD]&key=[SECRE-KEY]'

It returns with the response:

        <div class="error" style="margin-top:30px;">
        <p>This plugin requires WordPress version 3.3.1 or newer. Please upgrade your WordPress installation or download an <a href="http://[WPORG]/extend/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/developers/">older version of the plugin.</a></p>
        </div>
        ERROR: Invalid username and/or password

I attempted to upgrade to 4.2.2 but could not even begin the upgrade process. Was throwing Smarty errors, cleared template_c which had no effect. Tried to hack the upgrade together which did solve this issue but opened many other cans of worms so reverted back until the next release.

I tried hunting around to see if I could just use my key value only and bypass user authentication. Maybe someone can point me to the right file to edit to make this happen?


Thanks

Thanks for the response!

I had removed the plugin but looks like it had some crumbs left over.

Now it's just returning

ERROR: Invalid username and/or password

I've tried creating an additional Wordpress administrator just to see if that work but to no avail Just got my first e-mail campaign out and that went smooth though so Will attempt to upgrade to 4.2.2 soon I suppose.

So in cron.php I have now bypassed authentication but it still requires the key... and still requires to pass SOME kind of value for username / pass so hopefully that doesn't open up any massive security holes. But.. fixed for now.

Commented out:

CRM_Utils_System::authenticateScript(TRUE);