Web Application Vulnerabilities
Understand common web application security vulnerabilities and the fundamentals of identifying and assessing them.
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Path Traversal & File Inclusion Vulnerabilities
Web applications constantly work with files. When an application allows user input to influence which file or resource is accessed, a security boundary is created. This course examines how filesystem paths work, what Path Traversal is, how it is tested, and how filtering and encoding affect path handling.
- Sections
- 5 lessons
- Assessment
- 10-question quiz
- Pass mark
- 75%
What you will learn
- 1Introduction
- 2Path & File Handling Fundamentals
- 3Path Traversal / Directory Traversal
- 4Basic Path Traversal Testing
- 5Path Traversal Validation & Filter Weaknesses
- 6Summary
- 7Quiz
This is a demonstration version of the course. The full course contains additional lessons.