Upon analyzing the code in the "php-54-exploit" repository, we notice that it uses a simple and straightforward approach to exploit the vulnerability. The code crafts a malicious Authorization header and sends it to the server using the curl library.
The SOAP parser in PHP failed to properly disable external entity loading when parsing a WSDL file . An attacker could craft a malicious WSDL file that includes a reference to an external entity. Impact:
Here is an excerpt of the code:
, which contains text-based exploit reports and scripts for older PHP versions like 5.4.x.
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