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11/11/2011 11:49:43 PM (13 years ago)
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  • Ticket #19235, comment 11

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    11Just to add to the discussion, allowing direct access to the files under nginx/php-fpm can allow remote code execution if the server is configured poorly:
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    3 http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Pass_Non-PHP_Requests_to_PHP.
     3[http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Pass_Non-PHP_Requests_to_PHP.]
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    55Under WordPress 3.2.1, I can upload a file "foo.jpg" that contains PHP, and an attacker could craft a URL that causes PHP to evaluate the contents of this file. There are several ways to protect yourself, and nginx/php-fpm is the less common server setup, but ms-blogs.php offers basic protection if you keep blogs.dir out of the document root. Felt like it should be part of the thread.