We secure and maintain your legacy PHP applications and outdated servers, saving you from a costly complete rebuild. Whether your host is forcing a PHP upgrade, your payment gateway failed a compliance check, or your developer disappeared—we keep your business running.
We Don't Throw Away Legacy Code. We Fix It.
While other agencies refuse to work on legacy technology or demand a expensive total rewrite, we embrace it. We keep older setups fast, functional, and fully secure.
Keep your business logic running on Laravel 3.x+ codebases without a costly rewrite. We step in during ghosted developer handovers to resolve bugs, backport framework security patches, fix Composer dependency conflicts, and resolve routing or session issues in newer environments.
Bypass hosting provider suspension ultimatums (GoDaddy, HostGator, Bluehost) and secure systems running PHP 5.6, 7.x, or 8.x. We write manual hotpatches for CVE exploits, deploy virtual application-boundary patches, and refactor insecure database concatenations to secure prepared PDO statements.
Pass PCI-DSS compliance audits for payment gateways like Stripe or Authorize.net. We harden Nginx and Apache configs, hide exposed system headers, block malicious bots with WAF rules (ModSecurity, Aikido), configure Imunify360, and implement secure snapshot backup schedules.
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Production-Ready Refactoring Cases
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<?php
// Custom DB query - Concatenating direct user inputs into raw SQL statements
$userId = $_GET['id'];
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = " . $userId . " LIMIT 1";
$user = $db->query($query)->fetch();
// Unsafe session storage - deserializing user cookie without validation
if (isset($_COOKIE['session'])) {
$session = unserialize(base64_decode($_COOKIE['session']));
$role = $session['role'] ?? 'guest';
}
// Direct HTML output - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
echo "<h1>Welcome back, " . $user['username'] . "</h1>";
<?php
/**
* Hardened Database Access & Secure Token Verification
* Patched to enforce parameterized bindings and cryptographic token verification.
*/
// 1. Parameterized PDO prepared statement
$userId = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'id', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT);
if ($userId === false) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException("Invalid target identifier.");
}
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT username, role FROM users WHERE id = :id LIMIT 1");
$stmt->execute(['id' => $userId]);
$user = $stmt->fetch();
// 2. Cryptographically signed JSON session payload (replacing unsafe unserialize)
if (isset($_COOKIE['session'])) {
$rawCookie = $_COOKIE['session'];
$parts = explode('.', $rawCookie);
if (count($parts) === 2) {
[$payloadBase64, $signature] = $parts;
$secret = $_ENV['APP_KEY'] ?? 'secure-secret-key-32-chars-long';
// Verify HMAC signature to prevent parameter tampering & object injection
$expectedSignature = hash_hmac('sha256', $payloadBase64, $secret);
if (hash_equals($expectedSignature, $signature)) {
$session = json_decode(base64_decode($payloadBase64), true);
$role = $session['role'] ?? 'guest';
}
}
}
// 3. XSS Protection: HTML entity-escaped output
if ($user) {
$safeName = htmlspecialchars($user['username'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
echo "<h1>Welcome back, " . $safeName . "</h1>";
}
# Default Unhardened Server Configuration
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/html;
# Expose server details
server_tokens on;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# Unescaped PHP processing
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
}
# Hardened Nginx Configuration by Codepunker
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/html;
# 1. SSL/TLS Hardening
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384';
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 1d;
# 2. Strict Security Headers
add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline';" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
add_header Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" always;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
# 3. Information Disclosure Prevention
server_tokens off;
# 4. Limit Request Sizes to mitigate DDoS/buffer exploits
client_max_body_size 10M;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# Secure PHP FastCGI execution
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php-hardened.sock;
fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By; # Hide PHP version
}
}
// Affected: vendor/facade/ignition/src/Http/Controllers/ExecuteSolutionController.php
namespace Facade\Ignition\Http\Controllers;
use Facade\Ignition\Http\Requests\ExecuteSolutionRequest;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;
class ExecuteSolutionController
{
use ValidatesRequests;
public function __invoke(ExecuteSolutionRequest $request)
{
// VULNERABLE: Direct call to solution class execute method
// Allows arbitrary file creation/phar deserialization RCE via Ignatius solutions
$solution = $request->getRunnableSolution();
$solution->run($request->get('parameters', []));
return response('');
}
}
// Hotpatched by Codepunker to block CVE-2021-3129 RCE
namespace Facade\Ignition\Http\Controllers;
use Facade\Ignition\Http\Requests\ExecuteSolutionRequest;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException;
class ExecuteSolutionController
{
use ValidatesRequests;
public function __invoke(ExecuteSolutionRequest $request)
{
$solution = $request->getRunnableSolution();
// 1. Audit parameters for safety
$parameters = $request->get('parameters', []);
// Block known phar:// deserialization attack vectors
foreach ($parameters as $key => $value) {
if (is_string($value) && stripos($value, 'phar://') !== false) {
error_log("Block CVE-2021-3129 exploit attempt: " . $value);
throw new HttpException(403, "Exploit attempt blocked by Codepunker Hotpatch.");
}
}
// 2. Extra validation on environment (never allow arbitrary solution execute in production)
if (config('app.env') === 'production') {
throw new HttpException(403, "Ignition solutions disabled in production.");
}
$solution->run($parameters);
return response('');
}
}
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