forwardmessages not working on 4.71.0 - 4.71.10

[Roel Broersma]

Are you using the latest version of the library?

• I have checked and am using the latest version of the library.

What type of session are you experiencing this issue on?

Multi-device and I have set multiDevice to true in my config OR am using the --multi-device flag

What type of host account are you experiencing this issue on?

Business account

Mode

EASY API/CLI

Current Behavior

/forwardmessages is not working anymore.

To reproduce, use Swagger or use:

curl -X 'POST'
'http://XXXXXXXXXXX:8004/forwardMessages'
-H 'accept: /'
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
-d '{
"args": [
"[e-mail]",
["[e-mail]"],
true
]
}'

{
"success": false,
"error": {
"name": "Error",
"message": "Evaluation failed: TypeError: _0xb4442a(_0xf13f8d(...) + "BT") is not a function\n at window.. [as forwardMessages] (pptr://puppeteer_evaluation_script:1:521365)"
}
}

At the same moment, the terminal/cli gives:

middleware -> error Error: Evaluation failed: TypeError: _0xb4442a(_0xf13f8d(...
) + "BT") is not a function
at window.. [as forwardMessages] (pptr://puppeteer_eval
uation_script:1:521365)
at ExecutionContext._ExecutionContext_evaluate (/usr/src/app/node_modules/pup
peteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/ExecutionContext.js:258:15)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async ExecutionContext.evaluate (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer-core/
lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/ExecutionContext.js:146:16)

Expected Behavior

Expected would be:

{
"success": true
}

Steps To Reproduce

Use swagger (see current behavior)

create() code OR full CLI command + CONFIG

No response

DEBUG INFO

Debug info: {                                                                  
  "WA_VERSION": "2.3000.1013182127",                                             
  "PAGE_UA": "WhatsApp/2.2147.16 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) 
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",          
  "WA_AUTOMATE_VERSION": "4.71.10",                                              
  "BROWSER_VERSION": "HeadlessChrome/124.0.6367.60",                             
  "OS": "Linux 4.4",                                                             
  "START_TS": 1714586244750,                                                     
  "RAM_INFO": "Total: 67.40 GB | Free: 47.63 GB",                                
  "PPTR_VERSION": "19.11.1"                                                      
}

Environment

- OS: Docker container, running on latest Synology DSM.
- Node: 21.7.3
- YARN_VERSION: 1.22.9

Screenshots/Logs

No response

Anything else?

Also happens these versions:
4.71.6
4.71.4
4.71.3
4.71.2
4.71.1
4.71.0
(other 4.71.x versions were not tested, but probably the same issue)

I also tested the /ghostforward option, that one does work.