Challenge Overview

A recent threat intelligence indicated that a hacktivist group known as Phoenix Stalker had been actively attacking government-linked company infrastructures. The attack methods used are known vulnerabilities as a revenge move to the recent change of government in the Republic of Phibadia. Due to the company's security concerns, your task is to identify and exploit potential vulnerabilities in the production system and report findings to the company. This Challenge requires knowledge of OOP CMS BLOG 1.0 exploitation, Error-based SQL Injection, and sudo nano. Players will demonstrate network scanning skills to gather information on targets. The target machine runs on a Linux Ubuntu OS with an IP address of 10.10.1.32. Your task is to discover and exploit the system's vulnerability(s) and perform various attack techniques to gain administrative access.

What You Will Learn

  • Manual error-based SQL injection, including crafting payloads that trigger database errors to enumerate tables, columns, and extract user credentials.
  • Performing web application enumeration and CMS analysis, specifically identifying vulnerabilities in OOP CMS BLOG 1.0.
  • Using extracted credentials to gain authenticated or SSH access, demonstrating proper attack chaining from web exploitation to system compromise.
  • Conducting effective post-exploitation enumeration, identifying privilege escalation vectors after obtaining low-level shell access.
  • Exploiting a sudo misconfiguration involving the nano editor, leveraging elevated execution permissions to escape to a root shell and gain full administrative control on the Ubuntu target (10.10.1.32).

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