HackTheBox Editor Writeup
A walkthrough of the HackTheBox 'Editor' machine which is easy rated linux box. This write-up covers initial access, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation techniques.
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┌──(dollarboysushil㉿kali)-[~/Documents/HTB_BOXES/editor]
└─$ nmap -sC -sV 10.129.171.75
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-08-03 16:20 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.129.171.75
Host is up (0.24s latency).
Not shown: 997 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.9p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu0.13 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 256 3e:ea:45:4b:c5:d1:6d:6f:e2:d4:d1:3b:0a:3d:a9:4f (ECDSA)
|_ 256 64:cc:75:de:4a:e6:a5:b4:73:eb:3f:1b:cf:b4:e3:94 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://editor.htb/
8080/tcp open http Jetty 10.0.20
|_http-server-header: Jetty(10.0.20)
| http-methods:
|_ Potentially risky methods: PROPFIND LOCK UNLOCK
| http-cookie-flags:
| /:
| JSESSIONID:
|_ httponly flag not set
| http-robots.txt: 50 disallowed entries (15 shown)
| /xwiki/bin/viewattachrev/ /xwiki/bin/viewrev/
| /xwiki/bin/pdf/ /xwiki/bin/edit/ /xwiki/bin/create/
| /xwiki/bin/inline/ /xwiki/bin/preview/ /xwiki/bin/save/
| /xwiki/bin/saveandcontinue/ /xwiki/bin/rollback/ /xwiki/bin/deleteversions/
| /xwiki/bin/cancel/ /xwiki/bin/delete/ /xwiki/bin/deletespace/
|_/xwiki/bin/undelete/
|_http-open-proxy: Proxy might be redirecting requests
| http-title: XWiki - Main - Intro
|_Requested resource was http://10.129.171.75:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
| http-webdav-scan:
| WebDAV type: Unknown
| Server Type: Jetty(10.0.20)
|_ Allowed Methods: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, PROPFIND, LOCK, UNLOCK
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 17.70 seconds
Secured
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