File inclusion vulnerabilities, such as Local File Inclusion (LFI) and Remote File Inclusion (RFI), pose significant security risks to web applications.
To prevent file inclusion vulnerabilities in Laravel, developers should validate and sanitize user input, use absolute paths instead of user input to determine file paths, implement whitelisting, and keep dependencies updated.
Laravel's robust routing and file inclusion mechanisms can still be susceptible to these vulnerabilities if not properly handled.
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