Plugin deactivation throws critical PHP error
Deactivating or uninstalling the Cookie-Script plugin throws a critical PHP fatal error, so sites cannot remove it.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
8 public reports · first reported 15 April 2022 · last reported 8 March 2024
What's going wrong
Site owners of this WordPress plugin report that when they try to deactivate or uninstall it, PHP throws a fatal error about a callback that cannot be called statically, and the removal fails. Several reviewers say the bug has been reported in the support forum for months without a fix, and some note it appears on both PHP 8.1 and 8.2 installs. Owners are left with the plugin still active and code they want gone. The opportunity is a removal service or cleanup tool that safely strips the plugin and its leftover hooks, plus a checker that tests whether a plugin will deactivate cleanly before a site upgrades PHP.
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Products affected
Cookie-Script.com.
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Who has this problem
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