Light was a simple room where we exploited an SQL injection in a SQLite database to retrieve the credentials for the admin user and a flag. Discovering the SQL Injection As per the room instruc...

Lo-Fi was a very simple room where we exploited a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability to read the flag. Although it was not necessary to complete the room, I will also demonstrate how we could...

Silver Platter was a simple room where we discovered a Silverpeas installation along with a username. We brute-forced the user’s password using a custom wordlist to gain access to Silverpeas, and b...

Fifth Side Quest started with hacking a game on Advent of Cyber Day 19 using Frida and reverse-engineering a library it uses to discover the keycard with the password, which we then used to disable...

Fourth Side Quest started with discovering an SQL injection vulnerability in a web application on Advent of Cyber Day 17, which we exploited to dump the database. From the database, we discovered a...

Third Side Quest started with exploiting an IDOR vulnerability on the web application associated with Advent of Cyber Day 12 to access the details of a transaction that did not belong to us, findin...

Second Side Quest started with exploiting an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability to perform a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack on the machine associated with Advent of Cyber Day 5. Thi...

First Side Quest began by discovering the source code for a Flask web application on GitHub and finding this web application running on the machine associated with Advent of Cyber Day 1. By using t...

The Sticker Shop was a very simple room about exploiting a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to steal the contents of a page and retrieve the flag. Initial Enumeration Nmap Scan We star...

Lookup started with brute-forcing a login form to discover a set of credentials. Using these credentials to log in, we found a virtual host (vhost) with an elFinder installation. By exploiting a co...