--- type: Article title: Wisec - The WIse SECurity description: "Stefano Di Paola turns a non-inclusion PHP wrapper sink such as getimagesize($_GET['image']) into an internal network scanner. Open and closed ports are told apart by the wording of the failed-to-open-stream warning, or by response timing when errors are suppressed, over http:// or ftp://. Enables drive-by pharming, router brute force and full LAN scans, with HTTP Basic auth supported." resource: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=46d592056b008" tags: [article, webseclist-reference, wisec-it, ssrf, php, info-leak, timing-attack, dns-rebinding, side-channel, owasp-a10-2021] generated: by: webseclist-refs/1 at: "2026-08-11T19:37:41+00:00" status: stable stale_after: 2027-08-11 sources: - id: original resource: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=46d592056b008" title: Wisec - The WIse SECurity author: Stefano Di Paola also_at: [] authors: - Stefano Di Paola canonical_url: "" cited_by: - "2007.md:32" commit: "" content_sha256: 0d64dc80cb96662ce72cb2f7784b5686d1b81866f877d334a69da84faa44ef02 depth: full depth_reason: default kind: article language: "" licence: unknown original_url: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=46d592056b008" published: "" publisher: wisec.it publisher_english: "" raw_sha256: 90dafd9cc9508f47383a31bebe7df502e51fb5b867649eedd898b85b289bd050 retrieved_from: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=46d592056b008" retrieved_kind: stored retrieved_utc: "2026-08-11T19:37:41+00:00" slug: wisec-it-wisec-wise-security-2 snapshot: "" title_english: "" translation_file: "" translation_of: "" --- # Wisec - The WIse SECurity **Wisec - The WIse SECurity** - Stefano Di Paola, wisec.it. - Published: date not stated - Original: - Preserved from: http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=46d592056b008 (stored) on 2026-08-11 - Licence: unknown Rights remain with the original author and publisher. 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A perfect example for this tecnique is a fully controlled getsizeimage() function with allow_url_fopen. No RFI, no data returned, it could be just used for DoS. Obviously there's no RFI, and until yesterday probably nobody would care about check,inspect or exploit it. This article explains that some kind of attack could still be accomplished: Lan scanning and Drive by Pharming with error matching or time analisys. If the php error display is set to On, a simple request like: [http://victim.ltd/flawed.php?image=http://127.0.0.1:22/check](http://victim.ltd/flawed.php?image=http://127.0.0.1:22/check) will display: Warning: getimagesize(http://127.0.0.1:22/check): failed to open stream: Connection refused in...** This means it's a closed port. Indeed, an open port will be displayed as: **Warning: getimagesize(http://127.0.0.1:22): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!... ftp :// protocol could obviously be used, too. If there's no error on output, timing attacks could be accomplished too. Infact we could get timing result if a port is closed: **http://victim.ltd/flawed.php?image=ftp://127.0.0.1:3306/check real 0m0.057s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.020s Or if a port is opened : **http://victim.ltd/flawed.php?image=ftp://127.0.0.1:3306/check real 0m5.095s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.020s ---- So, what can be done? If the right conditions are satisfied: 1. Drive By Pharming 2. Bruteforcing routers. 3. Full Lan Scan. Last, Ascii wrote a nice php script for Lan Scan. You can find it [here](http://www.ush.it/2007/08/29/scanning-dmz-hosts-with-remote-file-opening/)... Ah... did I mentioned that php remote file supports HTTP Basic Authentication? :) As usual, the next move is up to you *No comments yet.*