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#27713 WAF Blacklist to strict?

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Latest post by celius on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 06:45 CDT

celius
 Hi,

I just went to administrator, and component Vik Appointments. I was going to check the appointments booked there. This all went fine, but when I pushed the column "Begin" to sort the appointments after when they start, I got this message:

"403 This request is blocked by Admin Tools. Please change this message in the component's options."


The url I see after clicking is this:
https://drammenhundepark.no/administrator/index.php?option=com_vikappointments&task=reservations&vapordcolumn=checkin&vapordtype=1&datefilter=&0=res_id&1=&ordnum=&keysearch=


The WAF blacklist rule that blocks this is:
Verb: all, Component: all, view: all, task: all, query paramter=list[select], regex=!#^[\p{L}\d,\s]+$#iu

Whenever I unpublish this rule I have no issues. Since I didn't add this rule, I figure it came with a new update of Admin Tools. So...


I also tried adding com_vikappointments as component, as I understod that should exclude it? Didn't work. Also created a com_vikappointments in WAF exeptions without it helping.

Ideas?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You can safely unpublish that rule. This rule protects Joomla! versions older than 3.6.4 from a major security issue which was fixed in Joomla 3.6.4. Since you're using Joomla! 3.7 you are already protected by the improvements made to the Joomla! core code itself, therefore you don't need that rule any more.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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celius
Thank you for the quick answer! :)

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