Redirect due to "malicious or dangerous" code

Question

All my efforts at "view rendered" are met with "Error: The link you are being redirected to contained some potentially malicious or dangerous code. We recommend you hit the back button and email [my email] to report the link that generated this message.

This is my exploratory effort upon installation.

Answer 1

I had this happen a few weeks ago. I don't remember all the details (of course), but it was an Apache ModSecurity rule being triggered by navigating to the admin. Some of the url words flagged a security keyword.

Getting around this involved finding the rule being triggered and removing it.

Look at ModSecurity Tools in WHM:

1. Find the rule id being triggered for the url you were trying to access.

2. Override the rule: On Rules List > Edit Rules add in a directive to override the rule when matched, like (with the correct id instead of 123456).

:

<locationmatch "^/my-custom-ee-admin-name/index.php.*">
  SecRuleRemoveById 123456
</locationmatch>

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/ModSecurity+Tools

examples of location matching for disabling modsec rules