# XAMPP ## XAMPP on Windows There is a way to upload a shell to escalate to `nt authority\system` privileges through xampp. I used this multiple times in the last few days. Upload a PHP shell like [FOZZ's p0wny-shell](https://github.com/flozz/p0wny-shell.git) to the `C:\xampp\htdocs` directory and visit the resource in the browser.