May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
12h 57m
English
This is a different scenario where the server is vulnerable to Apache Struts 2 Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, but the code execution response is hidden for some reason. In a scenario like this, we can still confirm the RCE vulnerability by using the sleep() function. Similar to the sleep() function used in time-based SQL injection, we can use this function to check the response time. We have executed the sleep() function for 2,000 ms, as you can see in the following screenshot:

To confirm the vulnerability, we just have to look at the response time from the server, which ...
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