Admin Tools

#30892 Security Exception Email Reason: PHPShield

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Latest post by on Saturday, 09 March 2019 17:17 CST

Wednesday, 06 February 2019 17:26 CST

Ben Carter

Hi Team,

I got a security exception email from one of our websites. The reason is "PHPShield". Upon looking to some of your documentation, there's no "PHPShield" blocking reason that I've found. I've also tried looking this reason to the internet with no avail.

Can you tell me what's the meaning of this security exception and if there's anything that I need to do, please let me know.

Thanks.

Thursday, 07 February 2019 02:28 CST

tampe125

Hello,

first of all, as usual, there's nothing you have to do: Admin Tools intercept a malicious request and blocked it. You can consider yourself safe.
Such request has been blocked because it was containing one of custom PHP stream wrapper (like php://, zip:// etc etc), that could be used to exploit vulnerabilities.
You can find more info here in the documentation: https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/admin-tools/web-application-firewall.html#waf-configure-active-request-filtering

Davide Tampellini

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Saturday, 09 March 2019 17:17 CST

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Edited by on 2019-03-09 17:17 CST

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