Exploitation and gaining access

To gain access to the target, we need to copy this exploit into Metasploit. However, copying external exploits directly to Metasploit's exploit directory is highly discouraged and bad practice since you will lose the modules on every update. It's better to keep external modules in a generalized directory rather than Metasploit's modules directory. However, the best possible way to keep the modules is to create a similar directory structure elsewhere on the system and load it using the loadpath command. Let's copy the found module to some directory:

Let's create the directory structure, as shown in the following ...

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