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SCF updates crash sites with fatal errors

Plugin updates to new SCF versions crash sites with fatal errors or memory exhaustion until the old version is restored.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 1 December 2025 · last reported 13 October 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners report that updating Secure Custom Fields to a new release, including versions 6.6.0, 6.9.3 and 6.9.5, left their sites throwing fatal errors, memory exhaustion or timeouts.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.