You might also like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode if you haven't heard of that either. Shellcodes are binary

You might also like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode if you haven't heard of that either. Shellcodes are binary strings that you write to memory or execute another way (like this plugin situation) through an exploit to actually initiate a shell under that process' user id. This can be local on a setuid process for escalation or remote (there are 2 other types in that article in addition to the reverse shell).