twhiting9275 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Not sure what happened, or when, but trying to upload common code, or paste it into a code block is, literally, blocked. Request is met with a 403 This was working fine just a year or so ago, but same code , not able to be pasted today. No hacking attempts here, simply trying to provide help and examples. Kind of hard to do when you can't even use basic community functionality Affected code attached as zip, but that's not really the proper approach. unpaid_invoices.zip 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHermannsen Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 It's ModSecurity, There's nothing you can do about it. Except upload the code to a third party service such as Pastebin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthanet Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 12 hours ago, twhiting9275 said: Not sure what happened, or when, but trying to upload common code, or paste it into a code block is, literally, blocked. Request is met with a 403 This was working fine just a year or so ago, but same code , not able to be pasted today. No hacking attempts here, simply trying to provide help and examples. Kind of hard to do when you can't even use basic community functionality Affected code attached as zip, but that's not really the proper approach. unpaid_invoices.zip 1.09 kB · 2 downloads Same problem, I start posting screenshots instead code blocks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twhiting9275 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 5 hours ago, DennisHermannsen said: It's ModSecurity, There's nothing you can do about it. Except upload the code to a third party service such as Pastebin. This is a poor response. I mean, really there is plenty that can be done about it. The whole point of modsec is that rules can be enabled or disabled, even edited so that one doesn’t have to use those outside resources 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHermannsen Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 3 hours ago, twhiting9275 said: This is a poor response. I mean, really there is plenty that can be done about it. The whole point of modsec is that rules can be enabled or disabled, even edited so that one doesn’t have to use those outside resources I'm know, but that was not my point. There's nothing you or anyone of us can do about it though. It's been a problem for more than a year and WHMCS staff are well aware of it at this point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kian Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 (edited) It's even worse. Just look at this post of mine. I had to take a screenshot of my entire post. The server no longer allows to post: Basically any code Write words that happen to be PHP global variables Paths and URLs used when making examples What's the point of having this f*o*r*u*m if people can't post? Too many times I spent like 10 minutes to offer my help just to be faced with 403. It tilts me so much that I no longer post. Oh and btw I can't even write f*o*r*u*m since it gets replaced by "community". I guess integrating NordVPN is the number one priority. Edited February 20, 2023 by Kian 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twhiting9275 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 8 hours ago, Kian said: What's the point of having this f*o*r*u*m if people can't post? Too many times I spent like 10 minutes to offer my help just to be faced with 403. I don't disagree, and I have a feeling that's why people like Brian , as well as myself stopped coming around to help. I still do, every once in a while, but things like this make it impossible to actually provide community help here. My only point in this thread was to bring it up so that it could be hashed out. If it's not, that's on staff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kian Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 15 hours ago, twhiting9275 said: My only point in this thread was to bring it up so that it could be hashed out. Same hope here 🤞 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS Support Manager WHMCS John Posted February 21, 2023 WHMCS Support Manager Share Posted February 21, 2023 Hi all, Thanks for letting us know. I've raised the matter with the sysadmin team to see if the relevant security rules can be tweaked. In the meantime, please do use a service like pastebin or attach a .txt file with the code instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twhiting9275 Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 On 2/21/2023 at 9:46 AM, WHMCS John said: Hi all, Thanks for letting us know. I've raised the matter with the sysadmin team to see if the relevant security rules can be tweaked. In the meantime, please do use a service like pastebin or attach a .txt file with the code instead. On an unrelated (??) note.... Same thing happened when I tried to paste php code into a ticket yesterday. Same, exact, thing. so, both forums and tickets have been essentially made worthless at this point 😞 I get the need for security, believe me, but, there's a point when it's just too much, and it makes the services unusable. No, I won't be using pastebin, or txt files. I simply won't be addressing those threads or helping there. Doesn't affect me at all. When you make life harder on those trying to help, especially in a community, you find that fewer people are willing to help 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS ChrisD Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Hi team, I am working on an upgrade to the community to resolve this at the moment, although I don't have a firm timeline, a community upgrade should resolve this. I will update this post once we've made the upgrade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twhiting9275 Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 Thank you Chris. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twhiting9275 Posted March 14, 2023 Author Share Posted March 14, 2023 Hi @WHMCS ChrisD Did this upgrade get made? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS ChrisD Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Hey @twhiting9275 Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner! This upgrade has been scheduled to occur on April 4th 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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