diff --git a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
index da25ae64ab..019bdb496c 100644
--- a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
+++ b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 
 		<span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span></div>
 	</div>
-	
+
 	<hr />
 
 	<a name="changelog"></a><h2>1. Changelog</h2>
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@
 		<li>[Fix] Correctly fetch server name if using non-standard port (#27395)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Regular expression for email matching in posts will no longer die on long words.</li>
 		<li>[Sec] Only allow urls gone through redirect() being used within login_box(). (thanks nookieman)</li>
+		<li>[Fix] Do not display ban message if direct call to cron. (thanks Dog Cow for reporting)</li>
 	</ul>
 
 	<a name="v300"></a><h3>1.ii. Changes since 3.0.0</h3>
diff --git a/phpBB/includes/session.php b/phpBB/includes/session.php
index 8a3a16727e..734fbaa070 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/session.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/session.php
@@ -1124,6 +1124,14 @@ class session
 			// To circumvent session_begin returning a valid value and the check_ban() not called on second page view, we kill the session again
 			$this->session_kill(false);
 
+			// A very special case... we are within the cron script which is not supposed to print out the ban message... show blank page
+			if (defined('IN_CRON'))
+			{
+				garbage_collection();
+				exit_handler();
+				exit;
+			}
+
 			trigger_error($message);
 		}