diff --git a/doc/setup.rst b/doc/setup.rst index e8a098c21b..b94235b001 100644 --- a/doc/setup.rst +++ b/doc/setup.rst @@ -224,11 +224,11 @@ options which the setup script does not provide. a login dialog if using :term:`HTTP` or cookie authentication mode. #. You should deny access to the ``./libraries`` and ``./setup/lib`` - subfolders in your webserver configuration. For Apache you can use - supplied :term:`.htaccess` file in that folder, for other webservers, you should - configure this yourself. Such configuration prevents from possible + subfolders in your webserver configuration. + Such configuration prevents from possible path exposure and cross side scripting vulnerabilities that might - happen to be found in that code. + happen to be found in that code. For the Apache webserver, this is + often accomplished with a :term:`.htaccess` file in those directories. #. It is generally a good idea to protect a public phpMyAdmin installation against access by robots as they usually can not do anything good there. You can do this using ``robots.txt`` file in root of your