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Find the Hidden Page

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Finding Hidden Admin Pages

Most websites have pages that developers left behind during testing or forgot to lock down. These include admin panels, login pages, backup files, and configuration endpoints.

In this lesson you will run a real directory scan against the target server and find a path that should not be publicly accessible.

Your Target

http://15.204.80.238/

What To Do

Open the terminal on the right. Run a directory scan:

dirb http://15.204.80.238/

Wait for it to finish. Look through the results for any path that returns HTTP 200 that looks out of place - something that would not normally be linked from a homepage.

Once you find it, fetch that path with curl and look for the flag inside the response.

Hint

The flag is hidden inside one of the discovered paths. You need to actually run the scan to find which one.

Answer the questions below

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Run dirb against http://15.204.80.238/ in the terminal. Find the path that returns HTTP 200 and looks out of place. Fetch it with curl and find the flag inside.

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Run: dirb http://15.204.80.238/ -- then curl each interesting path you find.

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Run a scan to enumerate reachable paths on this target.

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