🎯 What You'll Learn
- Navigate an unfamiliar codebase efficiently
- Identify an authentication or logic bypass
- Find a code-execution sink
- Chain primitives into a working exploit
Overview
Advanced web exploitation often starts with the source code. This lab teaches a white-box workflow: review the code, find an authentication flaw, then chain it with a second bug into reliable remote code execution.
Core Topics
- Source-code review workflow
- Auth/logic bypass discovery
- Sink identification
- Exploit chaining and PoC writing
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.