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Topic: ASP upload problem

Posted By: Benji
Subject: ASP upload problem
Date Posted: 20 April 2004 at 4:11pm

My host has changed some security settings on my server because of a hack attack, and now the upload file feature of my forum has stopped working. I have an unmodded forum, and have not changed anything at all that would affect the uploading.

Here's is their email they sent me :

What was happening is your upload script was trying to access resources outside the root folder which in the new setup wasnt permitted.

To resolve the error all you need to do is modify the part of the code which tries to access outside root folder resources by either commenting the call to the method or by removing it all together and that will resolve the issue..

It also explains why our script was able to upload without an error, because it wasnt access resources outside root folder..

Any ideas on what needs doing to resolve this? I'm no programmer and nothing stands out as to what needs to be done

Thanks in advance

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Ben

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 April 2004 at 8:13pm

Unless the upload folder is outside of the root of your site, which it shouldn't be, I don't know what your hosts are on about.

I think you need tyo ask them to be a bit more clear in what they are asking?

It could be that they have disabled parent path ie. ../ but they haven't said, they are being very vague.

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Posted By: Benji
Date Posted: 23 April 2004 at 5:40am

Spoke to them and they said that they havent disabled parent paths, just mappath objects that try to access outside the root folder because thats how the hackers got in.

Can you think of anything at all that this could be in the upload script Borg?

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Ben