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#18190 Security Message template=' in URL

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 04:47 CST

Wednesday, 20 November 2013 04:19 CST

tfeiertag
Hi there, 
I quite often get security-messages from admin tools. i understand most of them but not the ones that look like this:

IP Addresse: 2a01:4f8:200:612a::2 (IP Lookup: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php?ip=2a01:4f8:200:612a::2)
Grund: template=' in der URL

I dont understand the ip-address and I also dont understand the last line which in english means reason: template in URL

Can u plz help me?

Thanks in advance,

Ras

Wednesday, 20 November 2013 04:47 CST

nicholas
The IP address looks a bit strange, doesn't it? It's an IPv6 address. Search Google for IPv6 for more information. It's a perfectly legitimate IP address.

The reason for the block is that there is a "template=" in the URL. This is what is blocked by the "Block template=foo site template switch" option you have enabled in the Configure WAF page. The documentation is in https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/admin-tools/web-application-firewall.html#waf-configure Read both "Block template=foo site template switch" and "Allow site templates" to understand it.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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