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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?

sites/default/settings.php

Drupal site settings file containing database credentials and hash salt

What an attacker could do

If readable, leaks the Drupal database credentials, hash_salt, and config keys, enabling direct database access, session/token forgery, and full site compromise.

How to defend it

Ensure the web server returns 403 for settings.php (PHP should execute, never serve source), set file permissions to read-only for the web user, and store credentials outside the web root where possible.

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