I am able to write to the configuration file /home/www/public_html/configure.php. This is a potential secutiry risk.

In order to prohibit writing to this file, you should change its permissions from:

cPanel -> File Manager

If you want no one to be able to write into this file, set the permissions to something like 555.

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