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page1.php on this challenge shows you 403 Access Denied.

In this case, you’ll want to intercept the request to page1.php in Burp Suite

One way to discover the answer is to FUZZ this site using a requests file.

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Open up the file in pico

pico file.req

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Under the Host: header, add FUZZ:127.0.0.1

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Then download the wordlist below using wget

<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kaimi-/6b3c99538dce9e3d29ad647b325007c1/raw/921b0dd64e01c31106ece6087a3582e2d6fc6bc2/gistfile1.txt>

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If you cat the file, you’ll see this list contains standard headers that can be used to bypass 403 errors.

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