After having identified the web application firewall (ModSecurity) configured in plesk as the culprit, we added the IDs of the process given in the error logs (Thanks Visvanath!!) to the exception rules. Now everything seems to be working as it's supposed to. Cased solved! 👍
Installing and upgrading help
Server / DB problems after migration to root server
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