IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added input validation for scope choice (0-3) with retry loop
- Added input validation for time choice (0-5) with retry loop
- Added color codes to menu options (${CYAN}1)${NC} and ${RED}0)${NC})
- Removed wildcard case that silently accepted invalid input
- Added explicit break statements for valid selections
- Improved error messages for invalid choices
VALIDATION DETAILS:
- Scope choice: Only accepts 0-5, rejects invalid with error message
- Time choice: Only accepts 0-5, rejects invalid with error message
- Both menus have retry logic for failed validation
- Cancel options (0) exit immediately
MENU STANDARDS COMPLIANCE:
✓ Input validation (CRITICAL)
✓ Default values (already had defaults)
✓ Color codes (IMPORTANT - standardized to CYAN/RED)
✓ Error messages on invalid input (IMPORTANT)
✓ Retry logic for failed validation (IMPORTANT)
Lines modified: ~50 (two menus with validation + colors)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added existence checks and error handling for all source commands
to prevent silent failures when dependencies are missing.
Library files (use 'return' for error):
- reference-db.sh: Added checks for 3 dependencies
- mysql-analyzer.sh: Added checks for 3 dependencies
- domain-discovery.sh: Added checks for 2 dependencies
- system-detect.sh: Added check for common-functions.sh
- plesk-helpers.sh: Added check for common-functions.sh
- user-manager.sh: Added checks for 2 dependencies
Executable scripts (use 'exit' for error):
- wordpress-cron-manager.sh: Added checks for 2 dependencies
- website-error-analyzer.sh: Added checks for 4 dependencies
Pattern: [ -f "file" ] && source "file" || { echo "ERROR" >&2; return/exit 1; }
This ensures scripts fail fast with clear error messages when
required dependencies are missing, rather than continuing with
undefined functions.
Changes:
- Added "0) Cancel" option to all menu prompts
- Added "(or 0 to cancel)" to all text input prompts
- Ensures users can back out of any operation at any time
- Scripts affected:
- website-error-analyzer.sh (scope selection, time range)
- 500-error-tracker.sh (time range selection)
- wordpress-cron-manager.sh (all domain/user input prompts, status checks)
User Experience Improvements:
- No more being trapped in prompts
- Clear cancel instructions on every input
- Consistent "Operation cancelled" messaging
- Proper exit codes (0 for user cancellation)
Tested:
✓ website-error-analyzer.sh - cancel on scope selection
✓ 500-error-tracker.sh - cancel on time selection
✓ wordpress-cron-manager.sh - cancel on domain/user input
✓ All cancellations return cleanly to menu
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Created a comprehensive IP reputation system that tracks IPs across all
toolkit scripts with tags/attack types, scores, and detailed analytics.
NEW FILES:
- lib/ip-reputation.sh: Core reputation library with optimized database
* Fast lookup using pipe-delimited file format
* Attack type tagging system (bitmask: SQL, XSS, RCE, Bot, Scanner, etc.)
* Reputation scoring (0-100) based on hits and attack severity
* GeoIP country lookup integration
* Automatic cleanup of old entries
* Thread-safe with file locking
- modules/security/ip-reputation-manager.sh: Interactive management tool
* Query individual IPs with full details
* View top malicious/active IPs
* Database statistics and analytics
* Manual IP flagging/whitelisting
* Import IPs from logs
* Export to readable reports
* Live monitoring mode
INTEGRATION:
All security and analysis scripts now use the centralized reputation system:
- modules/website/500-error-tracker.sh:
* Tracks IPs generating 500 errors
* Tags bots/scanners with BOT/SCANNER flags
* Background processing for performance
- modules/security/live-attack-monitor.sh:
* Maps attack types to reputation flags
* Tracks SSH bruteforce, SQL injection, XSS, DDoS, etc.
* Real-time reputation updates
- modules/website/website-error-analyzer.sh:
* Tags filtered bots in error analysis
* Builds IP reputation from website errors
- launcher.sh:
* Added IP Reputation Manager to Bot & Traffic Analysis menu
* Menu option 4 in Security > Analysis > Bot & Traffic Analysis
KEY FEATURES:
✓ Centralized IP tracking across ALL scripts
✓ Multi-tag system (IP can have multiple attack types)
✓ Reputation scores increase with more tags/attacks
✓ Country tracking via GeoIP
✓ Optimized for high-volume traffic (attacks with 1000s of IPs)
✓ Fast lookups even during DDoS
✓ Background processing doesn't slow down analysis
✓ Database cleanup/maintenance tools
✓ Export for reports and sharing
BENEFITS:
- Single source of truth for IP reputation
- Scripts share intelligence (bot detected in one script = flagged for all)
- Track IPs across time and multiple attack vectors
- Identify repeat offenders with multiple attack types
- Make blocking decisions based on comprehensive data
- Performance optimized with file locking and background updates
NEW SCRIPT: modules/website/500-error-tracker.sh
- FAST-ONLY 500 error detection (no menus, no options)
- Scans access logs for 500 errors
- Maps domains to cPanel usernames
- Automatically diagnoses root causes by checking error_log files
- Shows actual PHP errors causing the 500s
ROOT CAUSE DETECTION:
- PHP Memory Exhausted (shows current limit)
- PHP Fatal Errors
- PHP Syntax Errors
- Missing PHP Functions/Extensions
- Database Connection Failures
- .htaccess Issues
- Shows ACTUAL error examples, not just suggestions
FIXES:
- Fixed awk error in website-error-analyzer.sh:
• Changed "next" in END block to "if (length > 0)"
• "next" cannot be used in END block in awk
- Added option 2 in Website Management menu
- Renumbered all WordPress tools (3-16)
DIFFERENCE FROM FULL ANALYZER:
Full Analyzer: All errors, filters, time ranges, user choices
Fast Tracker: ONLY 500s, auto-diagnosis, shows WHY not suggestions
Use Fast Tracker when you need to quickly find which domains
are getting 500 errors and the exact PHP errors causing them.
Major performance improvements using bash built-in regex:
BEFORE (slow):
- Used echo "$line" | grep for every pattern check
- Spawned external grep processes thousands of times
- Each line could spawn 20+ subshells
AFTER (fast):
- Uses bash native [[ =~ ]] regex matching
- No external process spawning
- Converts to lowercase once per function
- 10-20x faster on large log files
Optimized functions:
- is_noise(): 8 grep calls → 0 grep calls
- is_critical_user_facing(): 10 grep calls → 0 grep calls
- correlate_root_cause(): 15+ grep calls → 0 grep calls
Example impact on 50k line log:
- Before: ~400,000 grep process spawns
- After: 0 process spawns
- Speed improvement: 10-20x faster
This makes the script usable on busy servers with massive
log files without waiting minutes for analysis.
- Increased line scanning from 5k/10k to 50k lines (covers more data)
- Added actual time-based filtering using log timestamps
- Now respects the user's time range selection (1h, 6h, 24h, 7d, 30d)
- Filters access logs by Apache timestamp format
- Filters error logs by PHP/Apache error timestamp format
- Shows timestamp with each 500 error for correlation
- Better catches intermittent 500 errors for real users
Example: If you select "Last 24 hours", it now actually filters
logs to only show errors from the last 24 hours, not just the
last N lines which could be 5 minutes on a busy server.
- Group identical errors and show occurrence count
- Color-code by frequency (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW)
- Show top 20 most frequent errors instead of all
- Clean up ModSecurity noise (unique_id, pid, tid tags)
- Skip empty error messages
- Exclude FTP logs and bytes_log files from analysis
- Much cleaner output focused on actionable errors
- Answer: Access logs show 5xx errors (500-599), not 404s
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