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How to Block WHMCS licensedebug

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So I was recently reminded (thanks @Spencer) that if you call any WHMCS .php with ?licensedebug&forceremote, you get back some info that frankly I'm not wild about giving out. For example:

Performing Remote Check: Array ( [licensekey] => MYLICENSEKEY [domain] => MYDOMAIN [ip] => MYIP [dir] => /home/SOMEUSER/public_html ) 
Raw Remote Response: Active MY_WHMCS_RESELLER 2 Monthly Lease DATE_LEASED Monthly MYDOMAIN MY_IP /home/SOMEUSER/public_html SOME_HASH MY_WHCMS_VERSION
Remote Check Completed

Some of that is obvious public - domain name, IP address. I don't think WHMCS version is, and why give it out? Also, the absolute path on the server (/home/SOMEUSER) is needlessly exposed, as is the name of the company I leased WHMCS through, etc.

Nothing really OMG but when in doubt, why needlessly expose?

I looked and apparently the licensedebug is in ioncube'd code:

# grep -R licensedebug *
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So you can't modify the php directly...which means an alternative is to create a mod_security rule that blocks that. In this case, here is what I put in:

# don't allow people to see whmcs sensitive configs
SecRule ARGS_GET_NAMES licensedebug phase:2,block,id:102

This results in

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /index.php could not be found on this server.

Curious if this is the best way to do this or if I'm going to break something else in WHMCS.


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