Format - incomplete
Level - Medium
Enumeration
Nmap scan
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION
22/tcp open ssh syn-ack OpenSSH 8.4p1 Debian 5+deb11u1 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 3072 c3:97:ce:83:7d:25:5d:5d:ed:b5:45:cd:f2:0b:05:4f (RSA)
| ssh-rsa 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
| 256 b3:aa:30:35:2b:99:7d:20:fe:b6:75:88:40:a5:17:c1 (ECDSA)
| ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBAxL4FuxiK0hKkwexmffoZfwAs+0TzHjqgv3sbokWQzlt+YGLBXHmGuLjgjfi9Ir49zbxEL6iAOv8/Mj8hUPQVk=
| 256 fa:b3:7d:6e:1a:bc:d1:4b:68:ed:d6:e8:97:67:27:d7 (ED25519)
|_ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIK9eUks4+f4DtePOKRJYzDggTf1cOpMhtAxXHGSqr5ng
80/tcp open http syn-ack nginx 1.18.0
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0
|_http-title: 404 Not Found
3000/tcp open http syn-ack nginx 1.18.0
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: GET HEAD
|_http-favicon: Unknown favicon MD5: F6E1A9128148EEAD9EFF823C540EF471
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0
|_http-title: Microblog
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
On initial visit on the Machine's IP, we are redirected to ->
app.microblog.htb
(let's add this in our /etc/hosts file)


we now have the src code of the website, let's clone & analyse this.
Upon looking into
microblog folder
we found 2 sub domains
└─➜ tree microblog [2]
microblog
├── app
│ ├── brain.ico
│ ├── brain.png
│ ├── dashboard
│ │ └── index.php
│ ├── index.php
│ ├── login
│ │ └── index.php
│ ├── logout
│ │ └── index.php
│ └── register
│ └── index.php
└── sunny
├── content
│ ├── 2766wxkoacy
│ ├── jtdpx1iea5
│ ├── order.txt
│ ├── rle1v1hnms
│ └── syubx3wiu3e
├── edit
│ └── index.php
├── images
│ └── brain.ico
└── index.php
10 directories, 15 files
app & sunny. Let's add sunny in our
/etc/hosts
file.Sunny's subdomain is nothing but a blog written & posted by him.
On homepage we noticed that we can get a subdomain by registering so let's do it.
LFI
After registering we now can create subdomains.

Let's add this in our /etc/hosts
file
Create a blog

after visiting your subdomain, you can now see the blog content.
Why LFI?
if you checked the src code whatever we send inside the
id
parameter get's written inside our blogContents of
microblog/microblog/sunny/edit/index.php
//add text
if (isset($_POST['txt']) && isset($_POST['id'])) {
chdir(getcwd() . "/../content");
$txt_nl = nl2br($_POST['txt']);
$html = "<div class = \"blog-text\">{$txt_nl}</div>";
$post_file = fopen("{$_POST['id']}", "w");
fwrite($post_file, $html);
fclose($post_file);
<-- REDACTED -->
}
Let's add location of
/etc/passwd
& see if it works

I surfed for a while & found no important files that can help us to get a rev shell on the machine.
While reviweing the src code of
edit/index.php
, i saw there's something calledpro feature
Let's try to get a pro version on our account.
-------- the machine went vip sry couldn't complete :(
------- i'll surely complete this once i get VIP.
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