# Security Scan Spring4Shell **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosting Support\ **Created:** [August 19, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/security-scan-spring4shell/81281 "2023-08-19T21:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![ChrisPAR](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/chrispar/32/8743_2.png) [@ChrisPAR](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/ChrisPAR)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/security-scan-spring4shell/81281/5 "2023-08-19T23:41:08Z")
What statement? From where? Please be more specific. Since you linked to a Java issue, I can take a wild guess and assume you’re trying to do it via Java. Unfortunately, you’re likely hitting one or more of these limitations: > [@Connecting to MySQL from an external application](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/connecting-to-mysql-from-an-external-application/49339): > > Sometimes, you may want to connect to your MySQL database on your free hosting account using external software, like a desktop database manager (like MySQL Workbench) or an external program you wrote yourself (like an Android or iOS app). You cannot connect to a free hosting MySQL database from outside your hosting account. You can only interact with your free hosting database through PHP scripts uploaded to your free hosting account, or through our phpMyAdmin installation. The ability to con… > [@Ensuring only web browsers can access your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ensuring-only-web-browsers-can-access-your-website/49353): > > InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools. To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br… You’ll need to use that prepared statement in a PHP script inside your free hosting account. If that’s what you’re doing but it isn’t working, please provide more information. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/security-scan-spring4shell/81281)._