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Generator Tag set - Security Risk.

Asked by Steve 5 years ago Last activity 3 years ago

Setting this in the template is against Joomla's Best Practices and is a security risk.
< meta name="generator" content="Helix Ultimate - The Most Popular Joomla! Template Framework.">

This needs to be removed.

How do I do that?

I normally use Admin Tools to do it, but apparently you've found a way to avoid that too.

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Steve Asked this

Point being, this is injected into the page - against Best Practices and I should NOT have to add to the payload of the page to remove it.

This is the equivalent of a Back link, and I DO NOT pay you guys to do your advertising for you; particularly when you have not asked for the privilege or given me any way to decline.

Additionally, as I said earlier, I already use "Admin Tools" to modify this setting and even reordering the plugin does not solve it.

Ofi Khan Staff

Hello Steve

Thanks for contacting us. Please go to this location: plugins/system/helixultimate/src/Core and in HelixUltimate.php file comment out or delete 323 line for now. We will try to include a solution to add your own text there in the next version.

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Best regards

Steve Asked this

Thank you very much. That worked.
A permanent fix would be much appreciated.

Ofi Khan Staff

You are welcome. Yes, in the next update.

Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
5 years ago · edited

BTW

You are not the first person asked for this, so probably we will add On/off for this meta in template options.


Admin Tools - can remove only meta from orginal Joomla, not from template - it works in different way.

Grégory

Hi,
there's already such option in the Global Configuration on the Meta section (that i always set to off), so why do not use this this setting ?
And I must say that with the last Helix Ultimate system 2.0.13, the Generator Tag is still present by default. (and still showing a 2018 for the date).
Thanks in advance
Regards

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