/w/README
Severity Low
Alert group Documentation file
Description
A documentation file (e.g. readme.txt, changelog.txt, ...) was found in this directory. The information
contained in these files could help an attacker identify the web application you are using and
sometimes the version of the application. It's recommended to remove these files from production
systems.
Recommendations Remove or restrict access to all documentation file acessible from internet.
Alert variants
Details
File contents (first 250 characters):
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP.
It
serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, use
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by hundreds of millions of people each month. MediaWiki is localised in ov
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GET /w/README HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Basic YW5vbnltb3VzOmFub255bW91cw==
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.21