A few days ago I noticed a loophole in some code that meant it was vulnerable to an attack known as a CSRF attack. Thankfully, whilst it’s a pretty simple attack, it can be a little tricky to execute. The reason for that is because the attack requires the attacker to actually get the victim …
Nothing ever seems to go straight forward for me. I’d originally set up a mailbox in cPanel to catch email at user@domain.tld but then I decided that I’d rather just forward it to another address instead to save checking multiple inboxes. Turns out cPanel didn’t like that. I set up the email forwarder which worked …
So, one of the projects I’m working on is a sales funnel & at a particular point in the process, I’m trying to figure out whether a video or written text works best with regards to converting users. Obviously, I need to do a split test… But how can I get a get true 50/50 …
For some of my domains, I just use the local mail exchanger to handle email & for others, I use an external mailserver (FastMail). And by default, this works fine for most things… Until you try to send an email between 2 domains hosted on the same server that is. You see if you try …
Recently, I started getting an email every single day from cPanel telling me the following: The cPanel & WHM update process failed for the following reason: Maintenance ended; however, it did not exit cleanly (256). The following events were logged: “scripts/rpmup”. Review the update logs to determine why the update failed. I’d been ignoring the …
Yesterday, one of my servers began getting hit by what I thought was a DDOS attack. Well, it kinda worked at a DDOS attack, to be honest, but after taking a closer look into it the true attack seemed to be a brute force attack. My setup is a login form on index.php which then …
I recently started working on a new website on a new development server that I recently purchased & despite using the exact same PHPMailer code that I use on all of my other sites, I just couldn’t get any mail to send. I enabled debugging in PHPMailer & found that it was an authentication issue. …
I’ve been working on a WordPress site with bbPress installed (well, BuddyBoss to be precise) & one of the requests was for all of the links posted in the bbPress forum to automatically turn to affiliate links. Is it possible? You betcha… In fact, I’ve actually done it before on another site in the past …
For some installations of WordPress you might want to prevent “normal users” (non-admins) from getting access to the /wp-admin/ directory… For example in a BuddyPress or BuddyBoss installation. There’s no reason for them to be there, and so for added security, it’s best not to give them access. But how do you do it? Well, …
Over the past week or so I’ve been trying to import and old phpBB forum into bbPress & due to the importer struggling with incomplete BBCode, I’ve had to come up with a little PHP script to sort it out. Initially I had just wiped out ALL bracketed text from the posts, and whilst this …