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You’ve found my stash of write-ups. Some are brilliant, some are messy, but all of them eventually lead to a flag. Wipe your feet on the way in.

A Pilgrim's Progress: Exploiting ImageMagick and Binwalk on Pilgrimage

Easy rated linux box from hackthebox comprising of .git directory, magick binary for file read and binwalk for privilege escalation....

November 30, 2025 Â· 9 min Â· 1799 words

Abusing Cacti: From SQLi to Root on MonitorsTwo

Easy rated linux box from hackthebox comprising of cacti, rce, and docker cve.

November 30, 2025 Â· 9 min Â· 1837 words

Beyond the Blog: Exploiting WordPress CVEs on HTB 'MetaTwo'

Write-up for ‘MetaTwo’, a box that involves exploiting WordPress CVEs with multiple vectors (SQLi, XXE, LFI) for foothold, and then leveraging passpie for root privilege escalation.

November 30, 2025 Â· 3 min Â· 634 words

Building a Shell: From Malicious .NET Project to 'FullPowers'

Medium rated Windows box from hackthebox that involves building a malicious .NET solution project for foothold, and exploiting ‘FullPowers’ via SeImpersonate for privilege escalation.

November 30, 2025 Â· 7 min Â· 1348 words

Forging the One Shell: A PDFKit RCE on HTB 'Precious'

Easy rated box from hackthebox comprising of a Ruby pdfkit RCE for foothold and a sudo misconfiguration for privilege escalation.

November 30, 2025 Â· 2 min Â· 368 words

From Forged Requests to Pager Escapes on HTB 'Sau'

Easy rated linux box from hackthebox comprising of an SSRF leading to RCE for foothold, and a systemctl less pager escape for privilege escalation.

November 30, 2025 Â· 5 min Â· 883 words

Scoring with WebSockets: A Winning Goal on HTB 'Soccer'

Easy rated linux box from hackthebox comprising sqli, tiny file manager rce and doas for privilege escalation.

November 30, 2025 Â· 2 min Â· 407 words

The Path to Root: Hijacking the Search on HTB 'Busqueda'

Easy rated linux box ‘Busqueda’ from hackthebox comprising of command injection for foothold, credentials reuse for internal subdomain and insecure code executing a relative path script as root leading to privilege escalation....

November 30, 2025 Â· 4 min Â· 809 words

Becoming the Authority: An AD CS Exploit on HTB 'Authority'

Walkthrough of a medium-rated Windows AD box involving LDAP manipulation, cracking an Ansible vault, and escalating to Domain Admin via the AD CS ESC1 exploit.

November 20, 2025 Â· 14 min Â· 2969 words

Beyond the Interface: Escalating with a Bash Operator Flaw

Easy rated linux box from hackthebox with hidden directories leading to RCE for foothold, and bash operator evaluation for privilege escalation.

November 20, 2025 Â· 6 min Â· 1218 words