TRYHACKME — Vulnerability Capstone Complete Technical Guide

Asset Discovery and Vulnerability Identification

We begin by performing initial reconnaissance against the target deployment using directory brute-forcing and technology fingerprinting.

gobuster dir -u http://10.10.125.45/ -w /usr/share/wordlists/dirb/common.txt

The enumeration identifies an unauthenticated file upload endpoint within an outdated content management framework. By crafting an allowable MIME type with an executable PHP payload, we establish an initial reverse shell.