Debug bar visible to public visitors on live sites
Debug bar and its query data show to anonymous visitors on live sites, with no role or IP restriction.
5 public reports · first reported 20 March 2013 · last reported 17 September 2021
What's going wrong
Site owners who debug on live WordPress sites report that the debug bar appears to every visitor, including logged-out people, and exposes SQL queries, database names and other internals. Some could not even reach the plugin list to switch it off. Developers want a way to limit it to administrators, a chosen IP address or a secret link, rather than relying on code hacks. Agencies running client sites on production hosts would value a safer toggle that keeps the tool usable without exposing it.
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Products affected
BlackBox Debug Bar.
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Who has this problem
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