1. Web Security Academy
  2. Insecure deserialization
  3. Exploiting
  4. Lab

Lab: Arbitrary object injection in PHP

PRACTITIONER

This lab uses a serialization-based session mechanism and is vulnerable to arbitrary object injection as a result. To solve the lab, create and inject a malicious serialized object to delete the morale.txt file from Carlos's home directory. You will need to obtain source code access to solve this lab.

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