p0wny@shell:~# -- Single-file PHP Shell

p0wny@shell:~# is a very basic, single-file, PHP shell. It can be used to quickly execute commands on a server when pentesting a PHP application. Use it with caution: this script represents a security risk for the server.

Features:

• Command history (using arrow keys ↑ ↓)
• Auto-completion of command and file names (using Tab key)
• Navigate on the remote file-system (using cd command)
• Upload a file to the server (using upload <destination_file_name> command)
• Download a file from the server (using download <file_name> command)

WARNING: THIS SCRIPT IS A SECURITY HOLE. DO NOT UPLOAD IT ON A SERVER UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Demo with Docker:

docker build -t p0wny .
docker run -it -p 8080:8080 -d p0wny
# open with your browser http://127.0.0.1:8080/shell.php

Contributing

Questions

If you have any question, you can:

• Open an issue on GitHub
• Ask on Discord (I am not always available to chat, but I try to answer to everyone)

Bugs

Please open an issue on GitHub with as much information as possible if you found a bug:

• Your operating system / Linux distribution (and its version)
• The PHP version you are using (example: PHP-FPM 8.1, Apache mod_php 7.4,...)
• The Web server you are using and its version (example: Nginx 1.23, Apache 2.4.55,...)
• All the logs and message outputted by the software
• etc.

Pull requests

Please consider filing a bug before starting to work on a new feature; it will allow us to discuss the best way to do it. It is obviously unnecessary if you just want to fix a typo or small errors in the code.

Support this project

Want to support this project?

• ☕️ Buy me a coffee
• 💵️ Give me a tip on PayPal
• ❤️ Sponsor me on GitHub

Changelog

• v2023.08.10:
  • Make p0wny@shell compatible with PHP 5.3 (@FrancoisCapon, #38)
• v2023.05.28:
  • Encode all data fields as base64 to avoid encoding errors, especially on Windows (@cli-ish, #8, #35)
• v2023.05.22:
  • Display the username and the hostname in the prompt (@cli-ish, #33, #7)
• v2023.05.10:
  • Try different execution functions (exec, shell_exec, system, passthru, popen, proc_open) to run commands to bypass disabled functions (@cli-ish, #31, #32)
• v2023.02.27:
  • Make terminal window resizable (@FrancoisCapon, #27)
• v2023.02.13:
  • Larger terminal size on large screens (@psyray, #26)
  • No more horozontal scrolling on small screens (@flozz)
• v2022.09.19:
  • Expand path in cd command (cd ~, cd ~username,...)
  • Go home when running cd withoud argument.
  • → Thanks @FrancoisCapon for the suggestion (#25)