Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Fix-it: Template Edition

A common method of defacing vBulletin sites is to edit the parsed template html directly via the database. It makes it harder for administrators to find the issue, and can be a pain in the ass to cleanup if you're not familiar with working with the database.

This tool will make it easier to clean your defaced site.

What it does:
Checks all of the templates in the database:
- Makes a new compiled version from the uncompiled template.
- Compares the current compiled template to the new compiled template
- If they differ, it updates the template, then rebuilds all of the styles.

How do you use it?
- Upload to your admincp, modcp, install, or root forums folder
- Browse to it
- Let it run
- Delete tool_recompiler.php after you are done using it.

This tool now works on vB3 and vB4.

vB4 Thread

[Zachery]

This is a tool intended to fixed defaced websites, not revert your templatest to the stock vBulletin templates. Read the description.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by Zachery

This is a tool intended to fixed defaced websites, not revert your templatest to the stock vBulletin templates. Read the description.

What I asked was WILL it still allow you to revert if were to choose to as you can now or does it affect that function.

[Zachery]

What it does:
Checks all of the templates in the database;
- Makes a new parsed version from the unparsed template.
- Compares the current parsed template to the new parsed template
- If they differ it updates the template, then rebuilds all of the styles.


It does not do anything strange or funky, it does not effect the revert function in the least.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by Zachery

What it does:
Checks all of the templates in the database;
- Makes a new parsed version from the unparsed template.
- Compares the current parsed template to the new parsed template
- If they differ it updates the template, then rebuilds all of the styles.


It does not do anything strange or funky, it does not effect the revert function in the least.

I love it. Thanks for the reply. Consider it installed.

[vktechnology]

thank for this mod

my site infect today and just remove it

i donlt know how they put ifram in my site..
i host my private server.

[jimjam]

Thanks for this mod. It worked for me a treat. :up:

But I am having to use it every day!! What can i do to stop the ba$tards messing with my templates.

[Zachery]

Contact your webhost.

[Parture]

Does it work with 4.0?

Did I hear correctly, if I rebuild styles correctly it won't do anything?

I run it for awhile and then I get an error.

[Bashar]

as a webhost how we can edit it to do the fix without the need for the admin user/pass ? so we don't need to ask each user for his admin user/pass as i noticed few forums got infected on one of the servers

Thanks

[Bashar]

anyone?