Challenge Overview

A notorious Cybercrime-as-a-Service group, aka Code Cow, has been hired by an underground criminal gang planning to short the stock of the nation's largest medical provider very soon in the Kingdom of Tulukistan, causing massive publicity. To achieve their objectives, they will need two sets of secure passcodes to gain access to the medical provider's systems. Your job as an Ethical Hacker hired by the nation's intelligence agency is to compromise the Cybercriminal's production system to obtain and destroy these codes. This challenge requires knowledge in web application exploitation, WordPress plugin exploitation, and knowledge in sudoer loophole exploitation using various tools. In this experience, you will demonstrate WordPress Hacking and password cracking, privilege escalation, evaluate and apply knowledge in Local File Inclusion (LFI), system misconfiguration, and red team. The target machine runs a Linux Ubuntu OS with the IP address of 10.10.1.125. You are to discover and exploit the system's vulnerability. To pwn the box successfully, you must perform various exploitation techniques to escalate your privilege and gain root access.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying users, plugins, and vulnerabilities in a WordPress installation.
  • Performing credential attacks against discovered WordPress accounts to gain administrative access.
  • Exploiting an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in a WordPress plugin to upload a malicious payload.
  • Establishing a reverse shell on the Ubuntu server after successfully uploading the malicious file.
  • Navigating the compromised system to locate and retrieve the user flag as part of the attack chain.

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