Metafiles - Info Leakage

Metafiles - Info Leakage

Any of the actions performed below with wget could also be done with curl. Many Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools such as ZAP and Burp Suite include checks or parsing for these resources as part of their spider/crawler functionality. They can also be identified using various Google Dorks or leveraging advanced search features such as inurl:.

Web Spiders, Robots, or Crawlers retrieve a web page and then recursively traverse hyperlinks to retrieve further web content. Their accepted behavior is specified by the Robots Exclusion Protocol of the robots.txt file in the web root directory.