Amelia is a WordPress plugin for booking systems developed by TNS. With 40,000+ active installations, it has been used for the clinic, hair salon, tutor, and so on.

In March, we studied the source code of Amelia and found three vulnerabilities in the end:

• CVE-2022-0720 Amelia < 1.0.47 - Customer+ Arbitrary Appointments Update and Sensitive Data Disclosure (CVSS 6.3)
• CVE-2022-0825 Amelia < 1.0.49 - Customer+ Arbitrary Appointments Status Update (CVSS 6.3)
• CVE-2022-0837 Amelia < 1.0.48 - Customer+ SMS Service Abuse and Sensitive Data Disclosure (CVSS 5.4)

By exploiting these vulnerabilities, a malicious actor could get all the customer’s data, including name, phone, and booking details.

In this article, I will talk about the code structure of Amelia and the details of three vulnerabilities.

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I participated in LINE CTF 2022 with the team Water Paddler and we ranked seventh with the help of my teammates. I only contributed to one question, while the others were solved by my teammates or stuck. This article briefly summarizes the solutions to each question, most of which are referenced from LINE CTF 2022 Writeups by maple3142.

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Last weekend, in addition to the SUSCTF 2022 I wrote about in my previous post, there was also another TSJ CTF with many good challenges. Due to time constraints, I only chose the ones that interested me more, and this is the Nim Notes challenge mentioned in the title. I didn’t manage to solve it in the end (I was far from it), but the solution was very interesting, so I’m writing this post to record the official solution.

The author’s (maple3142) writeup is here: https://github.com/maple3142/My-CTF-Challenges/tree/master/TSJ%20CTF%202022/Nim%20Notes

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This holiday there were several CTFs, and I participated in SUSCTF 2022 with team SU. This post briefly records my experience with several of the challenges I participated in.

The list of challenges I will discuss is as follows:

1. web/fxxkcors
2. web/ez_note
3. web/baby gadget v1.0
4. web/baby gadget v1.0’s rrrevenge
5. web/HTML practice

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In May 2021, I solved my first Intigriti XSS challenge. Since then, I play every XSS challenge afterward, and solved most of them. Sometimes it’s painful when you try everything you know but still can’t solve it, however, the moment you made it, the pain is gone, replaced with joy and happiness.

As a player, I want to be on the other end(as a challenge maker) at least once, if I have an idea of an interesting XSS challenge.

I talked to @PinkDraconian in Jan 2021 and share an XSS challenge I created, after a few discussions, it gets accepted. This write-up is about the story behind the challenge.

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If you don’t know what CTF is, you can refer to my previous article: How to Get Started with Web Challenges in CTF?, which briefly introduces what CTF is and some basic types of challenges.

I played DiceCTF 2021 seriously last year and finally solved 6 web challenges. My experience is here: DiceCTF 2021 - Summary. I took a look at this year’s DiceCTF and was completely shocked. The difficulty level is completely different.

There are a total of 10 web challenges this time, with 1 easy challenge solved by 365 teams, another relatively simple one solved by 75 teams, and the other 8 challenges solved by only 5 teams or less, with one of them unsolved.

As a person who likes web and JS-related tips, this is a great learning opportunity to learn various techniques through the writeup released after the competition. There won’t be notes on all web challenges below, only the ones I’m interested in.

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Glints is a job search platform based in Singapore, and they just got a 20M investment last year, they have a team in Taiwan as well.

In July 2021, I found Glints bug bounty program so I spent some time on it, and I found 4 vulnerabilities in total in the end.

The vulnerabilities I found could have:

1. Stole every applicant’s personal information, including name, phone, birthday, resume, and email
2. Stole every recruiter’s personal information, including name, job title, team name, and email

In other words, the attacker can steal all users’ information by exploiting the vulnerabilities.

Let’s see what it is.

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Recently, during a penetration test, our team discovered an interesting SQL injection case. Due to some features, we couldn’t directly use existing tools to retrieve data. We had to modify the tools or write scripts to effectively utilize them. Therefore, this article will share two practical cases and my own solutions.

I have put these two cases on Heroku and turned them into two small challenges. If you are interested, you can try them out:

(The Heroku links are no longer available)

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Password reset is a mechanism that almost all websites have. The most common way is to send a password reset link via email, and after clicking the link, the user can set a new password for the account. Although this mechanism is common, there are some small security details to pay attention to.

This time, I am going to write about an account takeover vulnerability caused by the password reset function that I reported at the end of June this year.

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The biggest news in the cybersecurity industry at the end of 2021 is undoubtedly the Log4j vulnerability, also known as CVE-2021-44228 or Log4Shell. Some even describe it as a “nuclear-level vulnerability,” highlighting the far-reaching impact of this vulnerability.

While there are many technical analyses of the vulnerability, those without technical backgrounds may only know that the vulnerability is severe without understanding why or how it works. Therefore, I want to write a more straightforward article that non-technical people can understand.

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