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Web shells and the dangers of unrestricted file upload

In previous blog posts, we have already illustrated two web application vulnerabilities: brute force login cracking and SQL injection. In this post we illustrate a 3rd vulnerability, unrestricted file upload, and show how it can be exploited using a web shell.

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Jan 26, 2023 09:27 UTC
Last reported
Jan 26, 2023 09:27 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 15, 2026 07:24 UTC
Record ID
f9e9130cecc349ab46b0c58655a369b4a75a001088948bd21cc357c63fecdabb

Published indicators

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Source observations

intelligence_src_1e8b29b080e9bfdebf

Source-provided label
Publisher RSS metadata
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Jan 26, 2023 09:27 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 15, 2026 07:24 UTC

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Feed collection status

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 0 unverified.

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