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

[Bashar]

true it doesn't work with 4.0.2 anymore

can anyone make it works for 4.0.2 ?

[saudihost]

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work with me, whenever I try to browse it and run it, I got the hacked pages, so it seems to me the hacked pages would show up in all the files for the forum, like if it would be a header or something like that.

Please advise,

Thank you,

[BBForums]

any ideas if this will work with 3.6.12 PL2?

[diggity1]

any chance this would work on v3.5x?

[diggity1]

sorry, nm

[Lee G]

How would you make this work on a cron job
Basically set and forget.
Let it run once or twice a day
Thanks in advance for any help

[Bashar]

for some reason this doesn't work anymore even on 3.6.x or 3.8.x it still shows the hacked page

any idea what might be the reason?

[Zachery]

they didn't hack your templates.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Bashar

for some reason this doesn't work anymore even on 3.6.x or 3.8.x it still shows the hacked page

any idea what might be the reason?

Originally Posted by Zachery

they didn't hack your templates.

Check your plugins Bashar, Zachery has a point .

[Bashar]

hmm, which plungins? thing is all pages loads the hacked page, i checked the files they are intact, i restored older DB forum(s) worked

different forums installations different plugins

i even tried to dump the db and grep into the sql file for a word but since its encrypted JS no results matched

any other hints?

thanks