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Cannot make changes to website.

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Re: Cannot make changes to website.

9 years 2 months ago - 9 years 2 months ago
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Ok, I have spent over 3 hours on this issue. (You will get my bill in the mail... just kidding. :lol: ) You even had me thinking maybe it was a bug I had overlooked, even though the problem only happened on your website. :pinch:

I thought maybe you had put a script in your content (nope), or some of the other usual suspects.

However, I finally did prevail... I must say this one was something I had not seen before. :blink: one for the "history books".

Here is the offending content I finally found in your home page after much searching:
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<img alt="" src="http://valleyshore.toastmastersclubs.org/index.cgi?adminauth+3940+jX5hnrSw6S8RHHRd1TgXxCj5z" />

This was located right before the code for your gif images, so I looked right past it several times. The problem with this is that somebody put this page address that causes logouts on the server in for the image address. So every time you would load the home page it would always log you out. Unfortunately, since logouts are not always immediately shown unless you trigger them, you never knew you were already logged out on the server when you loaded the admin console. The admin console only looks for the tracking cookie on your computer for logouts... it does not contact the server until you do a save.

I have to say this is insidious as far as user oops go... no script was involved, just an ordinary image img tag that everyone uses. :lol: I had to wipe your home page content then restore it later w/o the offending code just to do the fix.

BTW, your website is working again. ;)
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Re: Cannot make changes to website.

9 years 2 months ago
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Thank you for sorting this all out Steve. Just so I understand, the code logging admin access our was pasted before the photo? Normally when I upload a photo I have to copy and paste our url on the image properties page when in admin to the site. Do you know the code logging the admin out could have gotten in, and how it happened? Deb
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9 years 2 months ago - 9 years 2 months ago
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Thank you for sorting this all out Steve. Just so I understand, the code logging admin access our was pasted before the photo?
Yes.

It was not anything I or the system did. Apparently someone got confused and just copy/pasted the url from the address bar in for an image address.

I think it was just coincidence that it happened to be the url that logs you out. It is curious though that a person would have to copy that url after logging out, then log back in and paste it into an image. :?

I would just chalk it up to a lesson learned and move on. ;)
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I am presuming this is a closed issue... locking the thread.
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