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Felix 23 Oct 2026

Two days ago a big security risk was found in the technology I'm using for twoinchbrush.com

As a safety measure I've taken everything offline. Because the website is almost 10 years old I had to move everything to new servers and do a lot of updates. At least for the main site this is now finished, the forum and blog will follow in the next days.

Please use this post if you have any comments or questions about this topic


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Glad to see the site is back online. Thanks Felix.

Voy Kay Conqueror of Challenges

Gosh, I was worried I was kicked out!! 😂😁😉
Those darn Russians ruin everything!!

Felix Creator of TwoInchBrush.com

It wasn't the Russians. It was a 20 year old bug in the code that was discovered by a team of researchers from multiple big American companies

Voy Kay Conqueror of Challenges

No worries friend Felix, my remark about Russian interference was sarcastic! 😁😋

I am glad this is back up. Thank you Felix for doing the needful. I had a suspicion that it had something to do with the weak TLS PHP vulnerability that was called out.

Didn't realize how much I liked this place until I couldn't get on it.

Good to see everyone again.

Thanks for all your work on this Felix, we appreciate all you do for this community! Better safe than sorry. Glad things are getting back on track.

dracula Power Painter

Thanks Felix! It's been a crazy couple of days!

Felix Creator of TwoInchBrush.com

Thank you for all the kind words :)

Thanks Felix for keeping the site alive!

paintingblondie The Queen of Cuties

Thanks so much Felix for your care of this site! Missed seeing the peeps here!

Welcome back! I was experiencing TIB-withdrawal symptoms . . .

Pietro1963 Master of Monsters

Thanks Felix!

flippergirlpaints Top Event Submitter

Hi Felix! I noticed that I can not upload additional pictures (as thumbnails) (actually I CAN upload them but the are just "X"s) on my original paintings and some of the paintings I already posted with thumbnails are just showing up as little "X"s. Just thought you should know.

4 me the same, seems the additional pics are gone thanks for remarking Pam!

Felix Creator of TwoInchBrush.com

Thank you, I'll take a look

Felix Creator of TwoInchBrush.com

Should work now!

Adding new additional files works ok Felix, but already existing additional files are still not visible, see for example https://twoinchbrush.com/originals/joha59/another-hibiscus, there should be and there was an additional file, but this is still not available.

Felix Creator of TwoInchBrush.com

strange, the one i uploaded for this painting was visible immediatly. Could you try to delete and reupload the broken one please?

Yeh that works, but it;s the same as a new one adding, and that was already no problem anymore. But there are of course a lot of addition file people were uoloading in the past, these still do not work, here's another example because the other one I deleted: https://twoinchbrush.com/fanpaintings/15723.

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