diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 0ceff6ed62..03e62f2d31 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Cacti CHANGELOG
 -issue#4819: Domains based LDAP and AD Fullname and Email not auto-populated
 -issue#4822: Cacti polling and boost report the wrong number of Data Sources when Devices are disabled
 -issue#4823: When editing Graph Template Items there are cases where VDEF's are hidden when they should be shown
+-issue#4831: Cactid lacks a default for $database_ssl
 -feature#4820: Make it possible to only import certain components when importing packages
 -feature#4825: Add update_device.php script to cli folder
 
diff --git a/cactid.php b/cactid.php
index 8dde76c75b..0123a579fa 100755
--- a/cactid.php
+++ b/cactid.php
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ function db_check_reconnect() {
 	if (!isset($database_ssl_key))  $database_ssl_key  = false;
 	if (!isset($database_ssl_cert)) $database_ssl_cert = false;
 	if (!isset($database_ssl_ca))   $database_ssl_ca   = false;
+	if (!isset($database_ssl))      $database_ssl      = false;
 
 	$version = db_fetch_cell('SELECT cacti FROM version', 'cacti', false);