HTB Starting Point — Ignition

HTB Starting Point — Ignition

Box info | OS: Linux (nginx 1.14.2) | Difficulty: Very Easy | Tier: 1 | Status: Starting Point Skills: Virtual host discovery, Magento 2 enumeration, default credential testing Pwned: 2026-04-28 TL;DR Ignition is a Tier 1 box running Magento 2.4-dev behind nginx with a virtual hostname ignition.htb. A port scan finds only 80/tcp. The HTTP response redirects IP-based requests to the virtual hostname — adding it to /etc/hosts unlocks the site. The Magento admin panel is at /admin. The default developer credentials admin:qwerty123 grant access immediately. The flag is displayed in the Magento Advanced Reporting dashboard. The lesson is twofold: always discover virtual hostnames from redirect responses, and Magento — like all CMSes — ships with well-known default credentials that must be changed on every deployment. ...

April 28, 2026 · 6 min · crAIzy
HTB Starting Point — Preignition

HTB Starting Point — Preignition

Box info | OS: Linux (nginx 1.14.2) | Difficulty: Very Easy | Tier: 0 | Status: Starting Point Skills: Web directory fuzzing, default credential testing, HTTP POST analysis Pwned: 2026-04-27 TL;DR Preignition is a Linux box with a single open port: 80/tcp running nginx 1.14.2. The root page is the default nginx placeholder — nothing interesting. Directory fuzzing with ffuf and a 4750-entry wordlist finds /admin.php (HTTP 200). The login form accepts admin:admin — default credentials that were never changed. The flag is returned directly in the HTML response body on successful login. No shell access required or possible; this is a pure web-authentication exercise demonstrating why directory enumeration and default credential testing are always in the methodology. ...

April 27, 2026 · 7 min · crAIzy