Malicious Exploit infected file

primewaydesign

I have received this message from my hoster (Hostinger):

"Hello!
Hope you're doing well.

Thank you for your recent request to whitelist the previous files. After careful consideration and thorough review, we regret to inform you that your request has been rejected.

The specific file in question, a files manager, has been identified as being exploited for malicious purposes. To ensure the security and integrity of our systems and our users, we are unable to whitelist this file.

We understand due to security reasons and related file is infected by malware thus whitelist can't be performed. We appreciate your understanding in this matter."

What can I do now, I even tried to use a freshly downloaded with no success?!

Torsten_K

I think the problem is your web hoster, as I never had any problems with mine. Maybe you could ask for support there.

primewaydesign

My hoster identified the app/file as malicious that can be exploited. I requested to whitelist the file, they rejected my requestas of now.

I'm seeking to hear from the developer for any ideas that can resolve my situation since I'm being using a licensed version.

Karl

primewaydesign Unfortunately, it's some anti-virus or your hosting service, because there is nothing malicious in Files Gallery. You can easily review all code inside the single index.php file, or get someone knowledgeable in PHP to do it for you. I can't really say it any differently ... If your host wants to block it, and doesn't want to explain why, then you should change hosting service. How can it be malicious if nobody, not even an expert developer, can tell you why?

Maybe your hosting is detecting that the Files Gallery application has upload capabilities, which of course would be insecure if accessible public without login.

I will keep this post up a couple of days, and then delete it, because it's just fear-mongering from unreliable sources.

Krx

I can assure the OP that this gallery doesn't have any malicious code.
I uploaded it on few webs on mine over 3 different hosting provides and not a single one flagged it as problematic.
Note that all of them are VERY overzealous and protective (which is good) against suspicious codes and they regularly employ various antivirus scripts. I also host Joomla and Wordpress websites there.

However, this script can be resource intensive. depending on how many images you have and how big they are.
My educated guess would be that that hosting don't want to allocate needed resources, and falsely flags the script instead.
It happened to me on some other cheapo hostings with other projects.

primewaydesign

Hey guys,

I appreciate your feedbacks and reassurance.

The application is being used from time to time to upload 100-200kb small pictures. However from different IP's on desktop and android phones.

I spoken to my hoster and after explaining what the app does they whitelisted the script, which is good news, as I really love this application.