Bug False alerts involving config.php file

[Iggy]

I keep receiving false alerts regarding the config.php file being tampered with, also the link at the bottom in these false alert emails isn't correct.

Greetings,

vBSecurity has detected a security alert regarding config.php Variable Tampering:
$vbulletin->config['Misc']['admincpdir'] changed from 'admincp' to
'http://www.rejecthaven.net/4um/admincp'
$vbulletin->config['Misc']['modcpdir'] changed from 'modcp' to
'http://www.rejecthaven.net/4um/srsbsns2'
$vbulletin->config['Misc']['admincpdir'] changed from 'admincp' to
'http://www.rejecthaven.net/4um/modcp'
$vbulletin->config['Misc']['modcpdir'] changed from 'modcp' to
'http://www.rejecthaven.net/4um/modcp'

The actions you have configured in the Security Center have been taken.

Please log in to your AdminCP and the Security Center:
http://www.rejecthaven.net/4um/http...?do=security&action=watchers&category=general
for guidelines on how to correct the issue.

 

[Fillip H.]

Those aren't false alerts. What those alerts do is reload the config.php file and compare it to the $vbulletin->config array, and if that has changed to include http (which is not the correct method of altering that variable) after config.php has loaded it is correct of it to alert you.

vBulletin does not natively change the admincpdir or modcpdir to include HTTP as that would break a multitude of uses for it. That is incidentally also why the link is wrong.

Please look through your plugins for any that may alter the admincpdir and modcpdir variables and disable those plugins.

 

[Iggy]

Thanks, I think I found the problem. I turned off vBadvanced CMPS and the alerts stopped. So I enabled it again, and the alerts came back. Now I just have to find exactly where the issue is with vBadvanced.

 

[Fillip H.]

I bet it's due to the way they handle placing the cmps in a different folder to the forum, this seems to conflict with every single mod in existence.

I guess I have to add an exclusion from the alert or something... Ill never be free of their crap...

 

[Iggy]

This I believe is the first issue I've had with vBadvanced, that I am aware of anyway. Thanks so much for your time, this addon is great!