Javascript inserted from Plugin pointing to wrong location

This has happened time and time again on multiple sites. When it happens, it forces me to start with a fresh install of WordPress to get around it.

The most recent example is on the WP Forms Lite plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/

On the plugin, I enable recaptcha, and then instead of pointing to Google for the javascript file: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js

It points to my local site: /recaptcha/api.js

This has happened to me on multiple WordPress installs, I feel like on every plugin that requires an external javascript file. For example, on a WooCommerce plugin site, I enabled Stripe payments, and instead of referencing: https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js

The site will reference: /checkout.js

WordPress will randomly remove all javascript URL references to external sites.

Is there a manual way to fix this? If I deactivate all plugins, delete them, then install the plugin, activate, it does not fix the issue. I have to completely delete WordPress on my server and reinstall to fix.

Topic references plugins Wordpress javascript

Category Web

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