just wanted to submit this. was working on something else and had debug.log open. saw the following come through, and wanted to report.
[28-Jan-2020 21:54:40 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/client/public_html/2016/wp-content/plugins/wp-defender/app/module/scan/behavior/pro/content-scan.php:87
Stack trace:
#0 /home/client/public_html/2016/wp-content/plugins/wp-defender/app/module/scan/behavior/pro/content-scan.php(52): WP_Defender\Module\Scan\Behavior\Pro\Content_Scan->scanAFile('/home/client/pub...')
#1 [internal function]: WP_Defender\Module\Scan\Behavior\Pro\Content_Scan->processItemInternal(Array, '/home/client/pub...')
#2 /home/client/public_html/2016/wp-content/plugins/wp-defender/vendor/hammer/base/component.php(216): ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs(Object(WP_Defender\Module\Scan\Behavior\Pro\Content_Scan), Array)
#3 /home/client/public_html/2016/wp-content/plugins/wp-defender/vendor/hammer/queue/queue.php(184): Hammer\Base\Component->__call('processItemInte...', Array)
#4 /home/client/public_html/2016/wp-content/plugins/wp-defender/app/module/scan/component/scan-api.php(258): Hammer\Queue\Queue->processItem()
#5 /home/client/public_html/ in /home/client/public_html/2016/wp-content/plugins/wp-defender/app/module/scan/behavior/pro/content-scan.php on line 87