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Firefox XPCOM Execute Command

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module runs a shell command on the target OS without touching the disk. On Windows, this command will flash the command prompt momentarily. This can be avoided by setting WSCRIPT to true, which drops a jscript "launcher" to disk that hides the prompt.

Author(s)

  • joev <joev@metasploit.com>

Platform

Firefox

Architectures

firefox

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

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