One of the things that the HackMyCF ColdFusion server security scanner looks for, is if the /CFIDE/scripts/ folder is in it's default location. There have been security vulnerabilities located in this folder in the past, most notably was the FCKEditor Vulnerability in ColdFusion 8.

Because it's really easy to change the default location of /CFIDE/scripts/, why not make a hackers life that much more difficult.

It's pretty easy to move it to a non-default location, because ColdFusion administrator has a setting called Default ScriptSrc Directory (located on the Settings page), by default it is set to /CFIDE/scripts/:

We can come up with a totally new URI, and be creative, in this blog entry we'll use: /cfjs/ (be sure to pick something unique, and not already in use).

Setup a the virtual directory for your new URI

Your next step is to setup a virtual directory for your new ColdFusion Scripts directory /cfjs/. You also want to block access to /CFIDE/scripts/. I prefer not to actually move or rename the /CFIDE/scripts/ directory (I block it on the web server instead), this way we can ensure that any ColdFusion installer updates can still do their thing.

Using Apache with mod_alias

Most Apache web servers will have the mod_alias module enabled, so we can use that to setup the virtual directory for all websites, and also block requests to /CFIDE/scripts/. To do this add the following to the end of your httpd.conf file:

# Create a new Virtual Directory
Alias /cfjs /var/www/path/to/CFIDE/scripts

# Return 404 for all requests to /CFIDE/scripts
RedirectMatch 404 (?i)/CFIDE/scripts.*

Using IIS

<denyUrlSequences>
  <add sequence="/CFIDE/scripts"/>
</denyUrlSequences>

If you want an even more secure approach (block more of the /CFIDE structure) then take a look at the ColdFusion 9 Lockdown Guide that I wrote for Adobe, it has more in depth examples for Apache and IIS 7.

Also consider that if you don't use any of the CFForm or ajax controls then you can simply block the entire /CFIDE/scripts/ directory all together, you don't need the virtual directory.