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Avishai's CTF Writeups

Yalla Balagan! A collection of my CTF writeups and solutions.

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First, I checked the source code and found this: <!-- /web-serveur/ch6/phpbb -->

I simply searched google for install file phpbb and enterd the first result. There, I could see the path /phpbb/install/install.php, so I entered him, that’s what I got:

Congratulations, you've just discovered one of phpBB's many vulnerabilities.<br>
<br>
This vulnerability is actually an oversight by the webmaster who should have removed<br>
these folders. They contain the phpBB forum installation pages.<br>
This kind of thing no longer exists because developers implement<br>
verification systems to make things easier for the most scatterbrained.<br>
What you need to understand, however, is that we often discover a lot of things<br>
by fiddling with URLs...<br>
Thanks to them, you can reset the forum and change all the administrator passwords, since you're resetting the forum.<br>
You then have complete control of the forum!!<br>
<br>
The password to validate is: karambar<br>
<br>
Good luck!

Flag: karambar