The Advent of Cyber: Day 5: XXE - SOC-mas XX-what-ee? (TryHackMe)

In this article, we’ll cover the XXE - SOC-mas XX-what-ee? write-up as the Day 5 challenge of the Advent of Cyber event challenge. It was interesting to navigate Web Security for an e-commerce gifting site using PortSwigger’s XML external entity (XXE) injection. We’re still at Wareville for SOC-mas!

1. What is the flag discovered after navigating through the wishes? THM{Brut3f0rc1n6_mY_w4y}

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

2. What is the flag seen on the possible proof of sabotage? THM{m4y0r_m4lw4r3_b4ckd00rs}

   

3. If you want to learn more about the XXE injection attack, check out the XXE room!

4. Following McSkidy's advice, Software recently hardened the server. It used to have many unneeded open ports, but not anymore. Not that this matters in any way.

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