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What is this endpoint?

lib/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php

PHPUnit

What an attacker could do

This PHPUnit utility evaluates PHP code from the request body (CVE-2017-9841), allowing unauthenticated remote code execution if it is web-accessible.

How to defend it

Remove PHPUnit and other dev dependencies from production deployments, keep vendor directories outside the web root, and update PHPUnit to a patched version.

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