picoCTF 2022 | Local Authority Write-up

Challenge description

Can you get the flag? Go to this website and see what you can discover.

Category: Web Exploitation

Solution

Inspecting the website’s source, we can find the login.php file responsible for managing the login form:

Inspecting that file itself, we find inside it a javascript file called secure.js:

Finally, inside it, we can find the credentials to log in as admin:

Simply log in to the website using these credentials to obtain the flag.

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