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Broken Access Control

Mountain West Cyber Challenge Broken Access Control Challenge

Challenge description:

You are John, a student at the school. There is a flag hidden somewhere in the website. You might need to gain access to admin privileges for the information you seek. Here are your credentials for the website: username: John password: johndoe123

the login page

Hm, lets try something before we log in. In the browser we can see that we’re at https://dockeridgohere.challenge.hackazon.org/login, what if we went to https://doesanyonereadthese.challenge.hackazon.org/admin.

holy shit

Holy shit that actually worked.

FLAG: CTF{5468697365626f6f6b6973666f727468}

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