📁 Directory Traversal: Peekaboo, I See /etc/passwd

by ByteBandit

Some sites are like nosy neighbors — leave the back door open, and I’ll be snooping through your drawers in no time.

Directory Traversal is when an app lets users pick files... but doesn’t check *which* files.

Example?

../../../../etc/passwd
    

Suddenly that innocent image loader is giving up Linux user info like it's tea at a gossip session.

Why stop there? Config files, source code, environment variables — anything the server has read access to, I now do too.

Pro tip: always normalize and sanitize file paths. Better yet? Don't let users touch your file system at all.

Hack smarter, not harder. And maybe chown your secrets.
— ByteBandit 🧩🕵️