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. ...