Gaining access through websites

Exploiting websites that face the Internet will typically be the most viable option in cracking the perimeter of an organization. There are a number of ways of doing this, but the best vulnerabilities that provide access include Structured Query Language (SQL) Structured Query Language injection (SQLi), Command-line Injection (CLI), Remote and Local File Inclusion (RFI/LFI), and unprotected file uploads. There is a copious amount of information regarding the execution of vulnerabilities related to SQLi, CLI, LFI, and file uploads, but attacking through RFI has rather sparse information and vulnerability is prevalent.

The execution of file inclusion attacks

To look for file inclusion vectors, you need to look for vectors ...

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