I'm getting a recurring PHP exception from the JCE file browser plugin. It appears to fire every time I use the file/image browser to insert a PDF into an article (e.g. via Insert Link), not as a one-off. I only become aware of it via the site's PHP exception notification emails — there's no visible error or failure in the admin UI itself, and the document insertion appears to complete successfully regardless.
This morning, I had three of these exceptions while editing several documents in a single session.
Details:
Exception Type: Exception
File: components/com_jce/editor/plugins/browser/browser.php
Line: 118
Message: "You don't have permission to access this. Please contact a website administrator if this is incorrect."
Thrown from WFBrowserPlugin->__construct(), triggered by task=plugin.loadlanguages for the browser plugin, referer being the file browser dialog (plugin.display&plugin=browser.link&filter=files).
Environment:
- Joomla 6, JCE 2.9.99.7 (latest stable)
- Logged-in administrator session, valid cookies, no permission changes
- Site is behind Cloudflare (proxied, UK-only WAF rule, Bot Fight Mode) — occurs both with and without this in place, so doesn't appear Cloudflare-related
- Clearing the Joomla/JCE cache does not reliably prevent recurrence
Given it's silent in the UI and only visible via server-side exception logging, I'd like to understand whether this is a genuine error worth fixing, or expected/benign behaviour from the browser plugin when handling PDFs specifically.
Thanks,
Philip Williams
