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Security Researcher Detected: You might have ended up here because your site vulnerability scanner found something interesting. Hi! I'm a security engineer and I'm having a good time interacting with the people and bots that are interested in information security.

You will hopefully find this site is well-secured and I'm not interested in being hacked. I'm interested in learning about how people try to hack me, though.

What is this endpoint?

develop/info.php

phpMyAdmin

What an attacker could do

This is a phpinfo-style diagnostic that leaks PHP build details, module list, absolute paths, and environment variables, providing reconnaissance for exploiting known PHP or extension vulnerabilities. It commonly exposes secrets passed through the environment.

How to defend it

Remove diagnostic info.php files from any deployed environment and disable phpinfo via disable_functions, ensuring development scripts are excluded from the production build.

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