Directory Traversal: Understanding, Preventing, and Mitigating One of the Web’s Most Dangerous Vulnerabilities
Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of web security, one vulnerability that continues to plague websites, APIs, and applications is Directory Traversal. Also known as Path Traversal, this attack vector is both deceptively simple and dangerously effective. When exploited, it allows attackers to access files and directories that reside outside the intended scope of the web…