July 2018
Beginner
564 pages
12h 22m
English
Content preview from Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch
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File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities
This chapter will talk about different vulnerabilities and will explain how to perform them on the Metasploitable machine. A detailed illustration of the each of the scenarios will be covered. At the end of every section, we will also see a quick solution to each vulnerability explained.
The chapter will cover the following topics:
- File upload vulnerabilities
- Code execution vulnerabilities
- Local file inclusion vulnerabilities
- Basic mitigation