Basic Challenge Level 10

This time Sam used a more temporary and ‘hidden’ approach to authenticating users, but he didn’t think about whether or not those users knew their way around javascript…

Description:

Although the challenge’s title mentions JavaScript, it’s not necessary (unless you’re using a browser from the ’90s)…

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of Cookies & knowing how to manipulate them with your browser.

Hints:

Take a look at the Cookies this challenge’s page saves in your browser.

Difficulty: Easy.

Points: 50

Challenge Link: https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/10

Forum Link:

https://www.hackthissite.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=14&t=10756

Solution:

The challenge’s page is saving two cookies:

HackThisSite: used as a passwordlevel10_authorized: set to no. So we change it to yes and submit the password that we got from the HackThisSite cookie.

Happy Hacking