ColumbusSoft’s Free collection of multiple 3rd-Party and customer ModSecurity rule sets to add additional security with extra attention to WordPress, WHMCS, Joomla, Prestashop and etc.
In this release we have included the Comodo Web Application Firewall, a set of Free ModSecurity Rules from Comodo that provides powerful, real-time protection for your web applications, this is while cPanel/WHM has launched it’s own ModSecurity feature without the need to use ConfigServer to install mod_sec rules.
If you are running websites on Apache and Linux based web-servers with cPanel/WHM you might have seen the default OWASP Modsecurity Vendor that comes with cPanel.
But what if you need to add more security rules to address a wider range of exploits and vulnerabilities? While cPanel allow you to add other Modsecurity Vendor to WHM, you might have had a hard time finding any other Modsecurity Vendors that provide complementary rules. As of this writing we are the only 3rd Party Modsecurity Vendor providing rule sets to secure your server and web applications against SQL injection, XSS, file disclosure and other zero-day exploits that follow similar patterns.
Our Modsecurity Vendor rules are available publicly to be added to the Modsecurity Vendor Rules For cPanel/WHM 11.46 Release that includes a very eloquent feature to manage ModSecurity without the need of extra plugins such as the ConfigSever Modsecurity plugin.
3 Step Simple Installation1) cPanel/WHM > Security Center > ModSecurity™ Vendors 2) Click on "Add Vendor" and paste the following Vendor Configuration URL: http://columbussoft.net/api/modsecurity-rules/meta_ColumbusSoft.yaml 3) Click Load and then Save! *) You can install and load these rules for Free, but then after you will need to pay a convenience fee to get a license for enabling automatic updates. ($9/month)
This is our first and beta version, our collection is small now and other than some custom security rules, related to Wordpres, WPScan, Joomla and WHMCS, we have one major library from Comodo’s Free ModSecurity Rules which was the inspiration for this project. We waited several months for a COMODO Modsecurity Vendor to support the new cPanel/WHM ModSecurity Vendor feature, we were not able to find any third party ModSecurity Vendors other than the default OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set that ships with cPanel 11.46 Release and later.
The goal of this project is to utilize this great new features and interface by cPanel and add every useful rules that are out there and not shipped with cPanel.
What's New in Version 1.25: - WPScan default user-agent blocker - Multiple vulnerabilities in pfSense - CVE-2014-5115 - CVE-2014-4852 - CVE-2014-4533 - CVE-2014-4552 - CVE-2014-4554 - CVE-2014-4555 - CVE-2014-4556 - CVE-2014-4557 - CVE-2014-4563 - CVE-2014-4564 - CVE-2014-4565 - CVE-2014-4566 - CVE-2014-4594 - CVE-2014-4595 - CVE-2014-4596 - CVE-2014-5183 - CVE-2014-5184 - CVE-2014-5187 - CVE-2014-5194 - CVE-2014-5186 - CVE-2014-4575 - CVE-2014-4584 - CVE-2014-4585 - CVE-2014-4587 - CVE-2014-4604 - CVE-2014-4605 - CVE-2014-4606 - CVE-2014-4939 - CVE-2014-4940 - CVE-2014-4941 - CVE-2014-5180 - CVE-2014-5190 - CVE-2014-5196 - CVE-2014-5022 - CVE-2014-5181 - CVE-2014-5182 - CVE-2014-5193 - CVE-2014-5199 - CVE-2014-5201 - CVE-2014-5202 - Extra WHMCS protection rule - Extra WordPress protection rule