Unable to locate path with php-ssh2

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Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
php-ssh2 0.12-39-g3dfe336+0.12-1build1
apache2 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.1
libssh2-1:amd64 1.5.0-2
Wordpress 4.6

Using php-ssh2, Wordpress can't locate the correct path for it's plugins and themes.
I think the path information doesn't get handled properly by php-ss2.

When installing plugins or themes for Wordpress, using SSH (libssh2 and php-ssh2),
I get the following errors in Wordpress:

Unable to locate WordPress plugin directory.
Unable to locate WordPress content directory.

I tried many suggested solutions I found on the internet.
Nothing worked. I couldn't find any errors in the logs related to this.

After removing the php-ssh2, installed from the Ubuntu repositories
and then installing a newer version of php-ssh2 with pecl, the problem was gone.
pecl install ssh2-1.0

It appears this bug has been fixed somewhere between php-ssh2 0.12-39-g3dfe336+0.12-1build1 and ssh2-1.0.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul Tomblin (ptomblin)]

Last year I got around this by installing php-ssh2 via "pecl install ssh2-1.0" but now that's not working either.

[John Smith (jeksmith)]

This is fixed in Zesty's version of php-ssh2 (1.0+0.13-2). Here's its changelog entry:

   php-ssh2 (1.0+0.13-2) unstable; urgency=medium

     * Apply patches to fix ssh2 to work again with 5.6.28 and 7.0.13
       (Courtesy of Remi Collet) (Closes: #849946)

    -- OndÅ™ej Surý <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:22:53 +0100

Here's a link to the bug it closed:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849946

I verified Wordpress updates via ssh2 work in Xenial with only this package from Zesty.