Remote file inclusion is basically a one of the most common vulnerability found in web application. This type of vulnerability allows the Hacker or attacker to add a remote file on the web server. If the attacker gets successful in performing the attack he/she will gain access to the web server and hence can execute any command on it.
Searching the Vulnerability
Remote File inclusion vulnerability is usually occurred in those sites which have a navigation similar to the below one
www.Targetsite.com/index.php?page=Anything
To find the vulnerability the hacker will most commonly use the following Google Dork
“inurl:index.php?page=”
This will show all the pages which has “index.php?page=” in their URL, Now to test whether the website is vulnerable to Remote file Inclusion or not the hacker use the following command
www.Victimsite.com/index.php?page=www.google.com
Lets say that the target website is http://www.cbspk.com
So the hacker url will become
http://www.cbspk.com/v2/index.php?page=http://www.google.com
If after executing the command the homepage of the google shows up then then the website isvulnerable to this attack if it does not come up then you should look for a new target. In my case after executing the above command in the address bar Google homepage shows up indicating that the website is vulnerable to this attack.
