| Tool | Purpose | Key Feature | |------|---------|-------------| | | PHP unserialize() payload generation | Library of gadget chains for exploiting object injection | | PHP-FPM Exploit | Proof of concept for exposed PHP-FPM ports | Demonstrates RCE via misconfigured FastCGI | | Vuln-PHP-Server | Vulnerable PHP web server for educational use | Simulates file upload and path traversal flaws |
Versions of PHP up to 5.4.44 are susceptible to Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerabilities when processing custom serialized data through the Serializable class interface. Attackers utilize tools like PHPGGC (PHP Generic Gadget Chains) on GitHub to generate a specifically malformed string payload. When the target application runs unserialize($user_input) , the PHP engine frees an object in memory prematurely while maintaining a pointer to it. The attacker then fills that freed memory space with malicious shellcode, tricking the PHP engine into executing it and granting the attacker an interactive system shell. php 5416 exploit github new
disable_functions = exec, shell_exec, system, passthru, popen, proc_open, curl_exec, curl_multi_exec, parse_ini_file, show_source, php_uname, get_cfg_var, dl, eval, assert | Tool | Purpose | Key Feature |
PHP 5.4.16 was released specifically to patch this vulnerability, meaning any PHP installation running 5.4.15 or earlier remains vulnerable. The attacker then fills that freed memory space
Modern Go, Python, or Bash scripts designed to parse large IP ranges specifically looking for the HTTP/1.1 ... Server: Apache/... PHP/5.4.16 banner string to flag easy targets.
Incompatible with secure, modern versions of WordPress and Elementor