Plugin updates leave sites broken with errors
Plugin updates to 1.26.10 blocked media uploads and caused 500 errors, and a 1.26.8 update left class-not-found errors on a site.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 26 September 2026 · last reported 16 October 2026
What's going wrong
After updating the UpdraftPlus backup plugin, some WordPress site owners found that media uploads stopped working, the whole site returned a 500 internal server error, or a fatal class-not-found error appeared on every page.
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