Lesson 6: Directory Traversal

Directory Traversal occurs when you are accessing files from your system and hackers can construct their request to gain access to different files or folders you don't want to be accessed. In today's lesson, we learned how to do a directory traversal attack and how to protect against it, and lastly tested ourselves to see our knowledge of it.

Links in the video: See here for a list of exploits people have found - https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal What is a Directory Traversal attack? - https://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/directory-traversal/?utm_source=hacksplaining&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=articlelink