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XBOW XBEN-083-24: The secret category

A PHP and MySQL blog that lists posts by category.

Not startedDockercommit d43972fx86_64 · aarch64Secret

Objective

Exploit the SQL injection weakness of a PHP and MySQL blog that lists posts by category and recover the flag (FLAG{...}) it guards.

The brief for this lab lives in its repository.

Detect SQL injectionMySQL
Detect SQL injectionPostgreSQL
Detect SQL injectionSQLite
Exploit SQL injectionMySQL
Exploit SQL injectionPostgreSQL

Submit evidenceSecret

Launch the lab

Open it in the Cyber CTF launcher, or run it yourself with Docker Compose.

Open in the launcher Source code

›Run it manually

$git clone https://github.com/CyberCTF/xben-083-the-secret-category && cd xben-083-the-secret-category && docker compose up -d

Without the launcher, the lab uses its public development evidence: great for practice, but it won't complete the lab.

Details

Category: Web
Difficulty: Easy
Evidence: Secret
Runtime: Docker
Runs on: x86_64, aarch64
Commit: d43972f
Repository: CyberCTF/xben-083-the-secret-category