HackTheBox | POV

In this walkthrough, I demonstrate how I obtained complete ownership of POV on HackTheBox
HackTheBox | POV
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Initial Foothold Hint:

  • Are there any particular input points or buttons on the web page that you can test user input or tamper with URL query parameters?
  • Look at particular words in the URL query parameters and if you're not sure what they are, ask Google how they can be abused

Privilege Escalation Hint:

  • Any interesting files on the file system?
  • What privileges does your new user session have?
  • You might need to use a meterpreter shell to finish the job

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