Tag: apache

Apache – Mapping URL PATH to a Directory on the FileSystem

By Ahmed

On 26/04/2018

In Developing, Linux, Python

Well, Mapping a URL Path to a directory can be useful in many scenarios,

Ex:

As a proof of ownership, some sites may ask you to publish certain files in certain directories “Google WebSite Ownership Verification, etc…
Publishing Django static files while proxying all the other URLs. Django Developers will relate 🙂
etc…

Patching WordPress DoS Vulnerability CVE-2018-6389 using Modsecurity

By Ahmed

On 11/02/2018

In Developing, Security

The Vulnerability as explained in https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html relies in executing high number of requests, So by temporarily applying rate limiting, the impact of this vulnerability maybe mitigated using various methods one of them is by using Modsecurity until a fix is released.

Other References:

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9021
https://baraktawily.blogspot.fr/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html
https://github.com/quitten/doser.py
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/wordpress-dos-exploit.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6389