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From: davemitch () mailinator com
Date: 7 Mar 2008 04:52:11 -0000

hi list,
on using wapiti (a vulnerability scanner for web applications) on an internal website, the output is a list of attack 
URLs like the one below

hxxp://***.****.***.***/pages/abstract.asp?paperid=..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fboot.ini

On pasting the URL in a browser, the error message is like this

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' 

Type mismatch: '[string: "¿'"("]' 

E:\INETPUB\VHOSTS\****.***.***\HTTPDOCS\WEBROOT\PAGES\../includes/toplinks-archive-courses-spas.asp, line 1
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What needs to be done next to exploit the vulnerability detected by wapiti ? any suggestions or ideas are welcome.

thankx

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