Challenge Overview

You are hired by the Croply firm as a Penetration tester. The administrator has deployed a WordPress site and has created some users before the users start writing blogs on the website, he wants you to conduct a proper pen test and find the flaws in the web application and entire system. As a penetration tester your job is to hack the entire system and make a report on vulnerabilities you found. Your target machine is running Ubuntu and has an IP address 10.10.1.14. The machine runs an Apache server which runs a WordPress site. This machine teaches you hands-on knowledge in Web Application Hacking, WordPress Hacking, using components with known Vulnerabilities, Linux privilege escalation and system hacking.

What You Will Learn

  • Comprehensive enumeration skills, including using tools like Nmap, Gobuster, and WPScan to identify open ports, hidden directories, WordPress versions, themes, plugins, and users on the Ubuntu target (10.10.1.14).
  • Identifying and exploiting known WordPress vulnerabilities, specifically leveraging a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in WordPress 5.0 (e.g., via Metasploit).
  • Gaining initial access through web-based exploitation, understanding how RCE translates into a system-level foothold on an Apache-hosted WordPress server.
  • Performing effective post-exploitation enumeration and lateral movement, such as discovering SSH credentials and pivoting from a web shell to a more stable SSH session.
  • Executing Linux privilege escalation through misconfigured sudo permissions, escalating from a low-privileged user to root and fully compromising the system.

Program Curriculum

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