TryHackMe Smol Walkthrough Focuses on Cybersecurity Skills
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🔍 TryHackMe’s Smol Walkthrough Teaches Key Enumeration Skills. The Smol room on TryHackMe focuses on a boot-to-root challenge centered around a vulnerable WordPress site, emphasizing the importance of software updates and code inspection. Users begin by conducting reconnaissance and port scanning, identifying open services, and then exploit a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in an outdated plugin. This leads to gaining WordPress admin access and discovering a backdoored plugin. The walkthrough details privilege escalation through MySQL and SSH key exploitation, ultimately achieving root access. This exercise highlights critical cybersecurity skills, including vulnerability exploitation and privilege escalation techniques. For more details, visit the original article.
