CYBER TALENTS:ADMIN HAS THE POWER CHALLENGE WRITE-UP

Robert Nyinge
2 min readNov 25, 2022

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Web Security : 50 Points

The challenge was labelled easy and I could not differ from it either

First step is to start the challenge using the “start the challenge “ button provided on the site, which will generate a link to the challenge site

After clicking the link, you will be redirected into this page

link to the challenge

Solution:Inspect the page by right clicking the mouse on your screen and toggle the “inspect” option which will display the following:

On the end of the <head> section of the HTML code, you will find a snippet with a user name and password , which you will use to log in to the page

After successfully logging in,head over to the “application” section on the menu, and click it, the click on the cookies section which will bring the following:

The trick is changing the role from “support” to “admin” and hit enter and the page will refresh ,unveiling the flag

flag unveiled

Thank-You

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