Hello Todd,

Disabling the DFI shield will disable detection of parameters like "../" or "../../" or "../something/" . We have spoken this with Nicholas from Akeeba and this is the only work around that he suggested because EasyBlog needs to post data back to the server by providing the necessary paths.

Paul, THANK YOU for your input!

Can you please provide me with a little more detail about this option and/or point me in the direction of a tutorial?

Thanks again!
Todd

Hello Todd,

Sorry but I don't quite get you here. You can actually see the steps to disable DFI Shield as outlined at http://stackideas.com/faq/easyblog/i-have-issues-uploading-images-in-media-manager

Paul wrote:

why couldn't you simply define a component exception in Admin Tools administrator instead of completely disabling it?

If there's a way to add exception, then it's possible but it's not possible to add exception for this.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/admin-tools/12986-how-to-disable-admintools-for-image-uploads-in-easyblog.html

The above solved the problem perfectly!

Mark wrote:

Paul wrote:

why couldn't you simply define a component exception in Admin Tools administrator instead of completely disabling it?

If there's a way to add exception, then it's possible but it's not possible to add exception for this.

In Admin Tools go to: Web Application Firewall>WAF Exceptions and define it there.

Todd wrote:

https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/admin-tools/12986-how-to-disable-admintools-for-image-uploads-in-easyblog.html

The above solved the problem perfectly!

yes, specifically:
Admin Tools>Web Application Firewall>WAF Exceptions

Thanks for the heads up on this Paul! Didn't know that you could add these exceptions.

Glad to help. Every Joomla! site should be running Admin Tools Pro in my opinion.

Hello Paul,

Thanks for sharing