X-Cart:Security Profiles
In X-Cart versions 4.5.5 and later, during X-Cart installation you can choose a security profile for your store. The two available options are Evaluation/Playground and Live store. The store administrator selects the security profile at the step Preparing to install X-Cart database of X-Cart's web installation:
Live store security profile is a pre-set combination of security options that ensure a higher level of security for your store's data in production mode. This includes:
- Enabled 'ip'-based protection method for security-sensitive operations performed via your store's back end:
- SQL/security and upgrade/patch operations,
- file operations (upload of distribution files for ESD products) and template editing.
- Enabled session protection mechanism ensuring that the session id of admin user is locked to the IP subnetwork including the IP address from which the admin session originated; this significantly reduces the possibility of a valid session being hijacked by an unauthorized person.
Live store security profile corresponds to the following settings in config.php:
- const PROTECT_DB_AND_PATCHES = 'ip';
- const PROTECT_ESD_AND_TEMPLATES = 'ip';
- const PROTECT_XID_BY_IP = 'secure_mask';
- const PROTECT_DB_AND_PATCHES = 'ip';
Evaluation/Playground is a security profile that allows you to work without the security limitations imposed by the Live store security profile. With this profile enabled, no protection is used for security-sensitive operations performed via your store's back end, and session protection mechanism is disabled. This is caused by the following settings in config.php:
- const PROTECT_DB_AND_PATCHES = FALSE;
- const PROTECT_ESD_AND_TEMPLATES = FALSE;
- const PROTECT_XID_BY_IP = FALSE;
- const PROTECT_DB_AND_PATCHES = FALSE;
If you need to change the previously selected security profile, do one of the following:
- Re-run X-Cart's installer with the option Update config only enabled and select a different security profile.
- OR
- Manually readjust the values of the constants PROTECT_DB_AND_PATCHES, PROTECT_ESD_AND_TEMPLATES and PROTECT_XID_BY_IP in your store's file config.php .
