A medium Linux box from HackTheBox, get initial access through a vulnerable wordpress plugin, then get privesc to a full user through tar, and then find a backup script that unzips a file as root, allowing you to privesc to root by unzipping a malicious archive with a custom root-owned SUID executable.

A medium Linux box from HackTheBox, get initial access through a vulnerable wordpress plugin, then get privesc to a full user through tar, and then find a backup script that unzips a file as root, allowing you to privesc to root by unzipping a malicious archive with a custom root-owned SUID executable.

A medium Linux box from HackTheBox, get initial access through a vulnerable wordpress plugin, then get privesc to a full user through tar, and then find a backup script that unzips a file as root, allowing you to privesc to root by unzipping a malicious archive with a custom root-owned SUID executable.

A medium Linux box from TryHackMe, use abuse wordpress admin for initial access, then an SUID binary for root.

A medium Linux box from TryHackMe, use abuse wordpress admin for initial access, then an SUID binary for root.