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phpinfo.php

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?

phpinfo.php

PHP info page

What an attacker could do

A phpinfo() page discloses the PHP version, loaded modules, full server paths, environment variables, and configuration, giving an attacker precise fingerprinting to select matching exploits.

How to defend it

Delete all phpinfo() scripts from production and disable the phpinfo function via disable_functions in php.ini.

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