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Practical CTF Writeups

Post-competition solutions covering the techniques, reasoning, and key decisions behind each challenge.

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No JS | AlpacaHack

Solving 'No JS' web challenge in AlpacaHack, the challenge involves client-side attack

Client Side

@00xcanelo // AlpacaHack

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The Curator's Exit

Solving the OSINT challenge from CTF@CIT 2026 — cracking a password-protected PDF, performing username enumeration, and investigating target profiles across...

OSINT

@babayaga0x01 // CTF@CIT

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Toxique Osint Challenge

hi there, it 0x2face with another osint challenge , but this time as challenge author for the knights of the fury ctf competition.

@abdelrahman_a996 // Toxique CTF

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CyCTF Luxor 2026 | web Finals

Solving 'Season' web challenge in CyCTF Luxor CTF 2026 Finals, the challenge involves bypassing weak XXE validation and uploading a shell in php for rce

XXE PHP file upload RCE

@00xcanelo // CyCTF

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CAT CTF 26 — Entry Level

Solving all web challenges for CAT CTF 26 — Entry Level, covering bugs like LFI, SSTI, DOMPurify bypass, lfi2rce, and SSRF via EC2 metadata service.

LFI SSTI API Dom purify bypass

@00xcanelo // CAT Reloaded CTF

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CAT CTF 26 Jail/misc/crypto Challenges

it is 0x2face with another writeup , this one will be about the linux jails , mic challenges , crypto challenges i created in CAT CTF entry Level CTF 26 , lets...

@abdelrahman_a996 // CAT Reloaded CTF

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CAT Entry Level CTF 26 OSINT Challenges

it’s 0x2face with another cool osint writeup , but this time as a challenge Author , i am happy to contribute to CAT Reloaded entry level CTF AS An Author this...

@abdelrahman_a996 // CAT Reloaded CTF

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CyCTF Luxor 2026 | Mobile Writeup

Solving the Android track of CyCTF Luxor — extracting a token from exported SharedPreferences, recovering an AES-ECB key from the signing cert, and forging a...

android reverse-engineering binder-ipc shared-preferences aes

@0xspongee // CyCTF

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CyCTF Luxor web Qualifications

Solving all web challenges in CyCTF Luxor Qualifications, covering a mix of Next.js, race condition, and CRLF issues.

nextjs race condition CRLF

@00xcanelo // CyCTF

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bil pwn challenge from CyCTF Luxor

Analysis First I made checksec to check the mitigations on the binary checksec ./apppatched Arch: amd64-64-little RELRO: Full RELRO Stack: No canary found NX:...

binary-exploitation exploit-development

@k45w4ra // CyCTF

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0xfun osint challenges

hi there hackers, it’s 0x2face with another Osint ctf writeup , this time it’s from 0xfun ctf , i am proud to share that our team M0nt5ab El2hwa secured 9th...

@abdelrahman_a996 // 0xfun CTF

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0xL4ugh CTF — Smol Web

Smol Web بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Hello Hackers, I’m !/bin/bash , back again with some web challenges from 0xl4ugh ctf 2025 edition.

@binbash_is_hacker // 0xL4ugh CTF

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Clowns_APT | 0xL4ugh CTF 2026

An OSINT investigation starting from a single ransom image left on a Node.js developer machine. Trace the attacker across all platforms to uncover an attack...

OSINT

@babayaga0x01 // 0xL4ugh CTF

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SSRF via Content-Type in Apache — Auditor

Solving “Auditor” challenge from FahemSec, where SSRF was achieved through Apache Content-Type/header injection to reach an internal Flask service and retrieve...

Apache header injection

@agn4by // FahemSec

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0xL4ugh CTF V5 OSINT Challenges

hi there hackers, it 0x2face with another osint write-up , this time it is 0xl4ugh CTF V5 , the ctf was challenging , amazing and i had great experience from...

@abdelrahman_a996 // 0xL4ugh CTF

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pdf.exe | 0xL4ugh v5 CTF

Solving 'pdf.exe' Insane web from 0xl4ugh v5 CTF, featuring two 0days: a Next.js SSRF and a PDFKit file-read vulnerability.

0day Nextjs pdfkit

@00xcanelo // 0xL4ugh CTF

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GDG BENHA CORE-TEAM CTF

hi there, back after a while , but this time as an author not a player 😁 i am happy to be an author for the GDG Benha core team ctf competition , this...

@abdelrahman_a996 // GDG BENHA CTF

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Night at the Museum

Chaining a path-traversal in an admin bot's QR-scan handler with an over-trusted promote endpoint to escalate a normal user to admin and reach the flag room.

path-traversal privilege-escalation broken-access-control api

@0xspongee // FahemSec

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BugZzzz | Fahemsec

Solving 'BugZzzz' challenge from Fahemsec, where you can only register with @fahmsec.ctf but the problem you are provided with mail @example.com so you can...

Research Access control bypass

@00xcanelo // FahemSec

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HTB — Neurogrid CTF

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنتُمُ الْفُقَرَاءُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ اللهم صلي و سلم و بارك علي سيدنا محمد.

@binbash_is_hacker // Hack The Box CTF

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IEEE Mansoura Qualifications 2025

Solving three web challenges from IEEE Mansoura CTF Qualifications 2025, featuring exploitation techniques such as XSS, CSP bypass, admin bot abuse, and Bottle...

CSP bypass XSS Bottle deserialization/RCE

@agn4by // IEEE Mansoura CTF

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web ● hard

IEEE Mansoura CTF Qualifications 2025

Solving three web challenges from IEEE Mansoura CTF Qualifications 2025, featuring exploitation techniques such as XSS, CSP bypass, admin bot abuse, and Bottle...

CSP bypass XSS Bottle deserialization/RCE

@agn4by // IEEE Mansoura 2025

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All Web & MISC Challenges IEEE CTF 2025

Solving all web challenges from IEEE CTF Qualifications 2025, covering XSS CSP bypass, RCE via Pickle deserialization, XSS through prototype pollution, blind...

blind sqli XSS CSP bypass RCE deserialization stegno

@00xcanelo // IEEE Mansoura CTF

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cat flag.png

Solving the web challenge 'cat flag.png' from Connectors CTF 2025 — exploiting command injection to exfiltrate a hidden flag image via hex-encoded binary data...

Command Injection DNS Exfiltration

@babayaga0x01 // Connectors CTF

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[Tob] WEB challenge

Bypassing a broken XSS filter in a context using JavaScript hoisting to defeat a ReferenceError guard, then exfiltrating the admin bot's cookies via Burp...

xss javascript-hoisting cookie-exfiltration bot

@0xspongee // Helwan CTF

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CONCTF 25 QUALS OSINT ChALLENGES

hi there , this is me abdelrahman ahmed aka 0x2face , and i play osint / steganagoraphy / web challenges in ctfs , but in this ctf my main focus was osint...

@abdelrahman_a996 // Connectors CTF

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CAT CTF 25 DFIR Write-up

Hey folks, Today, we’ll be walking through the Forensics challenges I’ve tackled at CAT CTF 25, Insha’allah.

ctf-walkthrough digital-forensics dfir ctf

@_og13_ // CAT CTF

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Stylish-Boss

Exploiting CSS injection and command injection to bypass CSP and steal admin API keys, leading to full system compromise in a web challenge.

Command Injection CSS Injection

@babayaga0x01 // CAT Reloaded CTF

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ASCWG 25 OSINT Challenges

Hello, I’m Abdelrahman Ahmed aka 2FACE, and i participated for the first time with my team “Liel0x1" in the ASCWG 2025 and i am proud to share that we made it...

@abdelrahman_a996 // ASC Cyber WarGames

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ASC Cyber WarGames Qualifications 2025

Solving three web challenges from ASC Cyber WarGames 2025 Qualifications, covering exploitation techniques such as IDOR, JWT forgery, SQL injection, race...

sql-injection Phar Deserialization jwt race condition

@agn4by // ASC Cyber WarGames

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ICMTC CTF 2025 Finals

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Hey Hackers, backed again with some challenges i solved second round of the competition.

icmtc-ctf ctf

@binbash_is_hacker // ICMTC CTF

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L3akCTF 2025 Forensics Write-up

Hey folks, Today, we’ll be walking through the Forensics challenges I’ve tackled in L3akCTF 2025, Insha’allah.

ctf digital-forensics ctf-walkthrough dfir

@_og13_ // L3ak CTF

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ICMTC CTF 2025

بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ Hi guys, hope you are fine.

ctf cybersecurity

@binbash_is_hacker // ICMTC CTF

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CyberGames 2025 Forensics Write-up

CyberGames 2025 Forensics Writeup this is my writeup for how i solved the bastion series , eugene fatigue series and the frustrating compression challenge from...

@abdelrahman_a996 // ASC Cyber WarGames

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