HackTheBox - Blocky

Starting with a basic port scan with nmap automator

We have a web server running on the port 80

We see that the website is running wordpress and we have no vulnerable plugins or themes installed and we also get a username

┌──(elliot㉿kali)-[~/HTB/Blocky]
└─$ wpscan --url http://10.10.10.37 --enumerate                      
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         __          _______   _____
         \ \        / /  __ \ / ____|
          \ \  /\  / /| |__) | (___   ___  __ _ _ __ ®
           \ \/  \/ / |  ___/ \___ \ / __|/ _` | '_ \
            \  /\  /  | |     ____) | (__| (_| | | | |
             \/  \/   |_|    |_____/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|

         WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team
                         Version 3.8.17
       Sponsored by Automattic - https://automattic.com/
       @_WPScan_, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, @firefart
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[+] URL: http://10.10.10.37/ [10.10.10.37]
[+] Started: Fri May 28 13:04:16 2021

Interesting Finding(s):

[+] Headers
 | Interesting Entry: Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
 | Found By: Headers (Passive Detection)
 | Confidence: 100%

[+] XML-RPC seems to be enabled: http://10.10.10.37/xmlrpc.php
 | Found By: Direct Access (Aggressive Detection)
 | Confidence: 100%
 | References:
 |  - http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Pingback_API
 |  - https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_ghost_scanner/
 |  - https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_dos/
 |  - https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_login/
 |  - https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_pingback_access/

[+] WordPress readme found: http://10.10.10.37/readme.html
 | Found By: Direct Access (Aggressive Detection)
 | Confidence: 100%

[+] Upload directory has listing enabled: http://10.10.10.37/wp-content/uploads/
 | Found By: Direct Access (Aggressive Detection)
 | Confidence: 100%

[+] The external WP-Cron seems to be enabled: http://10.10.10.37/wp-cron.php
 | Found By: Direct Access (Aggressive Detection)
 | Confidence: 60%
 | References:
 |  - https://www.iplocation.net/defend-wordpress-from-ddos
 |  - https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/issues/1299

[+] WordPress version 4.8 identified (Insecure, released on 2017-06-08).
 | Found By: Rss Generator (Passive Detection)
 |  - http://10.10.10.37/index.php/feed/, <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8</generator>
 |  - http://10.10.10.37/index.php/comments/feed/, <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8</generator>

[+] WordPress theme in use: twentyseventeen
 | Location: http://10.10.10.37/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/
 | Last Updated: 2021-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
 | Readme: http://10.10.10.37/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/README.txt
 | [!] The version is out of date, the latest version is 2.7
 | Style URL: http://10.10.10.37/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/style.css?ver=4.8
 | Style Name: Twenty Seventeen
 | Style URI: https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyseventeen/
 | Description: Twenty Seventeen brings your site to life with header video and immersive featured images. With a fo...
 | Author: the WordPress team
 | Author URI: https://wordpress.org/
 |
 | Found By: Css Style In Homepage (Passive Detection)
 |
 | Version: 1.3 (80% confidence)
 | Found By: Style (Passive Detection)
 |  - http://10.10.10.37/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/style.css?ver=4.8, Match: 'Version: 1.3'

[+] Enumerating Vulnerable Plugins (via Passive Methods)

[i] No plugins Found.

[+] Enumerating Vulnerable Themes (via Passive and Aggressive Methods)
 Checking Known Locations - Time: 00:00:45 <==========================================================================================================> (350 / 350) 100.00% Time: 00:00:45
[+] Checking Theme Versions (via Passive and Aggressive Methods)

[i] No themes Found.

[+] Enumerating Timthumbs (via Passive and Aggressive Methods)
 Checking Known Locations - Time: 00:05:13 <========================================================================================================> (2575 / 2575) 100.00% Time: 00:05:13

[i] No Timthumbs Found.

[+] Enumerating Config Backups (via Passive and Aggressive Methods)
 Checking Config Backups - Time: 00:00:17 <===========================================================================================================> (137 / 137) 100.00% Time: 00:00:17

[i] No Config Backups Found.

[+] Enumerating DB Exports (via Passive and Aggressive Methods)
 Checking DB Exports - Time: 00:00:08 <=================================================================================================================> (71 / 71) 100.00% Time: 00:00:08

[i] No DB Exports Found.

[+] Enumerating Medias (via Passive and Aggressive Methods) (Permalink setting must be set to "Plain" for those to be detected)
 Brute Forcing Attachment IDs - Time: 00:00:12 <======================================================================================================> (100 / 100) 100.00% Time: 00:00:12

[i] No Medias Found.

[+] Enumerating Users (via Passive and Aggressive Methods)
 Brute Forcing Author IDs - Time: 00:00:03 <============================================================================================================> (10 / 10) 100.00% Time: 00:00:03

[i] User(s) Identified:

[+] notch
 | Found By: Author Posts - Author Pattern (Passive Detection)
 | Confirmed By:
 |  Wp Json Api (Aggressive Detection)
 |   - http://10.10.10.37/index.php/wp-json/wp/v2/users/?per_page=100&page=1
 |  Author Id Brute Forcing - Author Pattern (Aggressive Detection)
 |  Login Error Messages (Aggressive Detection)

[+] Notch
 | Found By: Rss Generator (Passive Detection)
 | Confirmed By: Login Error Messages (Aggressive Detection)

[!] No WPScan API Token given, as a result vulnerability data has not been output.
[!] You can get a free API token with 25 daily requests by registering at https://wpscan.com/register

[+] Finished: Fri May 28 13:11:21 2021
[+] Requests Done: 3292
[+] Cached Requests: 10
[+] Data Sent: 896.032 KB
[+] Data Received: 1012.446 KB
[+] Memory used: 270.102 MB
[+] Elapsed time: 00:07:04

Running dirbuster on 10.10.10.37

Going to /plugin we get a BlockyCore,jar file

Using the jdax-gui to decomplie the .jar file we get that there is a file BlockyCore in the my-first-plugins which has the credentials for the sql user