This is how, in a matter of minutes, I located an information discloser.

Greetings, readers!

Today, let’s see how I found an information disclosure vulnerability on a website. This flaw poses significant risks to the confidentiality and integrity of data, highlighting the importance of robust security measures in our digital landscape. Join me as we uncover the intricacies of this vulnerability and explore ways to mitigate its impact.

I began my reconnaissance process using my custom automation script, recon.sh, tailored to streamline the discovery of potential vulnerabilities. Executing recon.sh with the target domain redacted.com, like

recon.sh -d redacted.com

provided me with an extensive list of subdomains, neatly compiled in all_subdomains.txt. To further refine my scope, I filtered out unresponsive domains, retaining only those present in responsive.txt for subsequent analysis.

Upon scrutinizing the URLs associated with these responsive domains, one particular URL caught my attention…