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Lab 161 — PageForge — Path Traversal via Mixed Slash Filter Bypass

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Task: PHP CMS with theme template preview feature that filters ../ path traversal sequences. Solution: Bypassed the filter using mixed slash notation (..\\/..\\/) which PHP normalizes to parent directory traversal, reading /root/flag.txt.

$ ls tags/ techniques/
mixed_slash_filter_bypassbackslash_forward_slash_traversalpath_traversal_filter_evasion

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