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# MakeSense - HackTheBox

2026-07-11 5 min read

Chaining a stored XSS in a WordPress contact form into admin takeover, RCE via a malicious plugin, SSH access, and a PHP file-upload bypass on an internal OCR service to root the box.

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# TrustMe - CTF challenge

huntress CTF 2025 4 / 5

2025-11-07 2 min read

Escalating privileges to TrustedInstaller on Windows to execute a binary and retrieve the flag.

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