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    Default Certain words are taboo?

    I'm admittedly not a ZenCart expert by any means, but I've worked with ZenCart off and on for a couple years. Today I ran into a situation with ver. 1.3.0.1 that took a bit of detective work to figure out what was happening.

    I was adding a new product for my client. For the product description, I copy/pasted the following text:
    "Beautiful glass heart contains a full 16 ounces of triple scented blended soy wax. This candle is made with 3 wicks and can be chunked upon request for an additional $1.00 per candle."

    After completing the page, I clicked PREVIEW and got an error, something about the server not accepting a connection and my firewall reporting an attempted worm intrusion.

    Not sure what was happening, I scanned my computer for a problem. Nothing. I then went to the website and looked for evidence of a hacker. Nothing. I looked at my config files for ZenCart, nothing unusual.

    Then, on a hunch, I tried to re-enter this product and it's description. Warning flags happened again. Next I tried typing in garbage words thinking that maybe my copy/paste from another source was bringing in the problem. The product was accepted.

    Then I tried typing the real description one word at a time, after each word I would hit PREVIEW.

    Lo and behold, the problem showed up when I entered the word "Chunked". If I type just "Chunk", it's okay. But, the whole word "Chunked" was creating the problem.

    Now my question is, are there other such words that I need to be mindful of? Is there documentation about this? And, why wasn't ZenCart programmed to deactivate but pass through words like that which I assume a hacker would use.

    Just curious.

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    Default Re: Certain words are taboo?

    Best ask your hosting site to see if they are aware of some issue ...

    I have no problem entering that description ...
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    Default Re: Certain words are taboo?

    Yeah, they upgraded the security a couple weeks ago. Maybe that is the problem.

    Thanks for comment.

 

 

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