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cms/config.php

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What is this endpoint?

cms/config.php

phpMyAdmin

What an attacker could do

A CMS or phpMyAdmin config.php discloses database credentials, secret keys, and connection details, letting an attacker access the database directly and potentially forge authenticated sessions or admin tokens. This commonly leads to full content-management and data compromise.

How to defend it

Place config.php outside the web root or deny HTTP access to it, set file permissions to 640, and load database secrets from environment variables instead of a served PHP file.

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