A portfolio site's login form is bypassed with a SQL injection, exposing an image upload page. Weak content validation is defeated by prepending PNG magic bytes to a PHP webshell, giving code execution as www-data and a reverse shell. A database config file leaks MySQL credentials; mysqldump recovers a plaintext password that is reused to become theseus. A custom SUID binary, /bin/sysinfo, calls helper tools by relative name, so PATH hijacking a malicious lshw yields a shell as root.
An XWiki instance on a hidden vhost is vulnerable to CVE-2025-24893, an unauthenticated Groovy injection in the SolrSearch endpoint, which is used to stage and run a reverse shell as the xwiki user. XWiki's hibernate.cfg.xml leaks a database password reused for SSH as oliver. oliver belongs to the netdata group, and the SUID ndsudo helper (CVE-2024-32019) resolves its target binaries through the untrusted PATH, so a PATH hijack runs an attacker-controlled binary as root.
A Dolibarr CRM on a hidden vhost runs on default admin credentials and is vulnerable to authenticated PHP code injection (CVE-2023-30253), giving a shell as www-data. Its config file leaks database credentials reused for SSH as larissa. A SUID enlightenment binary is vulnerable to CVE-2022-37706, which is abused for a root shell.
A leaked .git directory on a dev vhost exposes source code guarded by a custom HTTP header; a file-upload filter is bypassed with the phar:// wrapper for RCE as www-data, a SUID script that pipes input into Python 2's input() escalates to the developer user, and a passwordless sudo easy_install hands over root.