Questions tagged [lfi]

I'm doing a pentest on a FreeBSD machine running CuppaCMS. Already managed to login into the CMS with admin privilege, but it only takes me to a manager menu, with some options to change some tables and stuff like that, no RCE visible escalation. So…

Yes I've read forums that says Forward Slash (/) is invalid character in a file name since it being File Separator in Windows and *nix based machines. But Without creating such an exploit file, I think attacks like ZipSlip won't be possible, Isn't…

Does anyone know how to hack dvwa(http://www.dvwa.co.uk) via submitting a form input like ../../../../../etc/passwd to expose the /etc/passwd of a given server? Is there a endpoint to hit for this? Thanks

I'm trying to understand how to perform a LFI (specifically PHP LFI), and there is a aspect of this attack that seems to be never discussed in online articles I read: The injected file permissions. Indeed, let's assume I can inject a file in the…