Challenge Overview

You work on the security team at a job listing company. You have been given the responsibility of conducting a security assessment to guarantee that the company’ s website is secure. As a penetration tester, your job is to conduct penetration testing on the website and exploit any vulnerabilities discovered, reporting them to the management. Your target web server is running on Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.88 whisch has two websites http: //dev.careermaker.cyberq and http: //careermaker.cyberq. You are required to discover and exploit the existing web application vulnerabilities and perform various attack techniques to gain access to the web server machine and find the files flag.txt and root.txt. By completing this task, you will gain hands-on knowledge in web applications hacking and penetration testing.

What You Will Learn

  • Web application enumeration across multiple environments, including pivoting between development (dev.careermaker.cyberq) and production (careermaker.cyberq) sites to uncover exposed credentials.
  • Identifying and exploiting a vulnerable WordPress plugin, particularly leveraging a Local File Inclusion (LFI) flaw to access sensitive files on the server.
  • Chaining vulnerabilities logically \\u2014 using credentials discovered on the development site to compromise the production WordPress instance.
  • Extracting and abusing sensitive artifacts such as SSH private keys obtained via LFI to gain system-level access on the Ubuntu host (10.10.1.88).
  • Performing Linux privilege escalation using file capabilities, specifically leveraging a Perl binary with the setuid capability to escalate privileges and retrieve flag.txt and root.txt.

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